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◆ Europe's corporate bond market braces for US tech issuance surge ◆ Canada makes move for EU regs equivalence but to what end? ◆ Middle East private placements here to stay... but will take up less room

For the sixth consecutive year, Mayer Brown took the ABS Law Firm of the Year award and was also named the SRT Law Firm of the Year. These wins reflect the firm’s strengths across structured finance products and deep experience in nearly every securitized asset class, both testament to the firm’s 150 structured finance lawyers in offices across the Americas, Asia and Europe. GlobalCapital spoke to Ger O’Donnell, Eric T. Mitzenmacher, and Steven Kaplan from Mayer Brown about how it’s differentiating itself from peers — and where it’s seeing growth opportunities in the future.

Bond market digitisation starts with the paperwork

Higher than normal levels of redemptions and the prospect of pre-funding could make the rest of 2026 busy for the primary market

In mid-June, RBC Capital Markets and GlobalCapital convened a high level group of Canadian public sector borrowers to discuss the overall international and domestic economic environment as well as bond market issuance conditions, both at home and overseas. The discussions were split into two — one for Canada’s federal and provincial funding officials and one for the country’s public sector entities (PSEs).

CLO mezz tight but seniors stuck, another specialist lender collapses

◆ The collapse of another specialist lender hits asset-backed lending but why it's different this time ◆ MDBs ramp up private funding ◆ No greenium but European banks happy to print more ESG labelled debt

Not every borrower can print overseas in their local currency, but for those that can, it is a great tool

Issuers have frontloaded their core currency funding and could benefit from turning their attention to other projects as the year draws to an end

Issuance has kept going by giving investors just what they want

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Reforms should focus on banks' access to liquidity, not capital