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The Only Covenant That Counts
While the $1.7 trillion private credit market is experiencing its first real stress test, the focus has been on fund-level liquidity and investor redemptions. What matters most, though, is the health of the underlying borrowers. And there is nothing more critical to measuring a company’s health and ability to repay debt than its cash flow.
Continuous Network Design: The Transformational Key to Resilient, Adaptive Supply Chains — A Three-Part Series
Today’s global businesses operate in an increasingly complex environment influenced by multiple forces. Labor challenges, geopolitical risks, shifting trade policies, evolving supplier and customer dynamics, changes in manufacturing footprints, and rapid advances in technology all pose potential threats to the stability and performance of supply chain networks.
Use of Expert Determination as an ADR Method
Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanisms are generally designed to deliver time and cost efficiency, procedural flexibility, and confidentiality. However, one key consideration that is often understated is the degree of confidence the chosen ADR method can provide in achieving a fair and reasonable outcome. Many dispute resolution specialists have experienced utterly unexpected results — outcomes that far exceed their worst- or best-case scenarios. This can sometimes be a function of the ADR mechanism selected.
Ankura CTIX FLASH Update – April 17, 2026
Malware Activity When Trust Becomes the Attack Surface Two (2) recent campaigns highlight a growing shift in cybercrime where attackers exploit trusted platforms and everyday user actions, rather than software flaws, to cause harm. In one (1) case, threat actors abused the popular note‑taking app Obsidian by posing as venture capital investors and convincing finance ...
Restaurant Sector: April 2026 Update
GLP-1 medications are reshaping the American food industry at a structural level. With roughly one in every eight of U.S. adults now taking appetite-suppressing drugs like Ozempic, and 23% of households containing at least one user, consumers are eating less and spending differently.
Geopolitical Risk: The Latest Boardroom Agenda
Recently, oil markets reacted sharply to the U.S.-Israel air campaign against Iran — “Operation Epic Fury” — and to Iran’s moves and threats affecting shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a key route for global oil and liquified natural gas (LNG) flows. Brent crude traded above $100 per barrel during the disruption and, according to Reuters’s reporting, reached intraday highs around $119 as the effective closure of the strait intensified supply fears.
Creating Alpha: The Most Consistently Mispriced Risk in Carve-Outs | What Private Equity Buyers Still Get Wrong
In carve-out transactions, private equity sponsors underwrite financial performance with rigor, but they underwrite operational separation with optimism. The result is rarely outright deal failure.
OCC Proposes Comprehensive Federal Framework for Stablecoin Issuers Under the GENIUS Act
On Feb. 25, 2026, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a sweeping notice of proposed rulemaking that would establish the first comprehensive federal regulatory framework governing payment stablecoins issued by entities under its jurisdiction.
Banking Industry Outlook: U.S. Banking M&A Builds Momentum into 2026
The market for banking consolidation remains healthy with Q1 2026 marking the largest Q1 combined deal value since 2019 (excluding the Discover-Capital One deal in 2024). Deals also continue to close at a rapid rate with 53 deals completed in Q1, the largest total since the 75 deals completed in Q4 2021.
Uncertainties and Opportunities in the Middle East Construction Sector
With the ongoing uncertainty in the Middle East entering its sixth week of conflict, there are understandably concerns across various sectors and the short to medium term outlook. Those sectors most immediately affected include hospitality, tourism, and real estate, though no industry is immune to the impact of recent events. A continuance of the conflict and the ensuing uncertainty could impact other sectors too, including construction, where often the impact of market conditions has a delayed but profound influence on new project awards, client budgets, pricing strategies, and contractual behaviors.
