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Julia Lu

Partner

Julia Lu is a partner in Ashurst’s derivatives and global loans practice, based in New York, with deep experience in credit default swaps, total return swaps, options and other credit and equity derivatives transactions and related regulatory issues. Email: julia.lu@ashurst.com


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Minority creditors beware: the LME may not be a restructuring under European corporate CDS

In this Spotlight article, the authors consider whether and when typical liability management exercise structures are likely to trigger a restructuring credit event, and the timing for settlement where a restructuring credit event is triggered, under a European corporate credit default swap.

12 APR 2026

A comparison of re-proposed SEC Rule 9j-1 and the UK/EU Market Abuse Regulation

Despite industry criticism of the Rule 9j-1 originally proposed in 2010, the SEC recently re-proposed Rule 9j-1 with even further reach in antifraud, anti-manipulation liabilities for security-based swaps. In particular, the re-proposal lowers the standard of mental state requirement for insider trading liabilities, adds a new prohibition on acts and attempted acts of price manipulation, and seeks to apply similar expanded violations to assets underlying or related to the security-based swap. Compared to the re-proposed Rule 9j-1, the UK/EU Market Abuse Regulation has a different scope and is not specifically designed to apply to swaps and derivatives, but contains prohibitions in the same categories as those under the re-proposed Rule 9j-1.

1 APR 2022