All Episodes

Ep 182 - The Amazing and Surreal Story of Puerto Rico’s Debt Restructuring (ft. David Skeel)

Ep 181 - Are Sanctions on Venezuela Still Justified?

Ep 180 - Bonds Yields and Elections (ft. Layna Mosley)

Ep 179 - Ethiopia’s Value Recovery Instruments

Ep 178 - $240 Billion?!

Ep 177 - Is it Finally Time to Restructure Venezuela’s Debt?

Ep 176 - 1917 Tsarist Bonds

Ep 175 - The Most Amazing Revolution

Ep 174 - Something Black in the Lentils

Ep 173 - Foreign Civil War Entanglements

Ep 172 - If Only YPF’s Bylaws Had Been Governed by Texas Law

Ep 171 - The $500 Million American “Financial Aid” to China

Ep 170 - Ethiopia and Senegal: Debt Shenanigans?

Ep 169 - Can We Say Anything Meaningful About a Venezuelan Debt Restructuring?

Ep 168 - Are CACs Unilateral Modification Clauses?

Ep 167 - Will the Flip Clause Enter the Canon?

Ep 166 - Imperial (Defaulted) Chinese Bonds (Again)

Ep 165 - Total Return Swaps

Ep 164 - Cambodia’s “Dirty Debts” to the US — Redux

Ep 163 - What if POTUS wanted an OBBD?

Ep 162 - The Invasion Tax

Ep 161 - Argentina Again

Ep 160 - Ukraine's Expansive "Fiscal Laws" Clause

Ep 159 - The Greek GDP Warrant Drama

Ep 158 - Some Questions, Now That it's About 3 Years Since Russia’s Default

Ep 157 - Sovereign Debt Odd & Ends

Ep 156 - Is There Any Law of State Succession? (ft. Paul Stephan)

Ep 155 - What if Trump Discovers that Unpaid UK (and French) Debt From WWI?

Ep 154 - What Might a Syrian Debt Restructuring (Eventually) Look Like?

Ep 153 - User Fees on the US Treasury Strategic Gold Crypto Reserve

Ep 152 - Why Do We Care Who is Behind HRB’s Sri Lankan Lawsuit?

Ep 151 - Greece’s (Ratings) Rise – Wow, but also How? (ft. Sarah Carlson & Elena Duggar)

Ep 150 - Getting "J. Screwed" Sounds Better than Getting "Argentina'd" (ft. Andrew Kissner)

Ep 149 - Is Sri Lanka’s Loss Reinstatement Provision a Penalty?

Ep 148 - Sri Lanka's New MFC Clause — Have "Contorts" Arrived in Sovereign Debt?

Ep 147 - YPF and Argentina’s Contributions to International Law (ft. Paul Stephan)

Ep 146 - The Penalty Doctrine in Contract Law

Ep 145 - A New Competition For Law (and Jurisdiction)?

Ep 144 - An Execution Sale is Not a Receivership. (Right?) (ft. Nate Oman)

Ep 143 - Hamilton Bank v. Sri Lanka: What the $@#$ ?

Ep 142 - Zambia’s Restructuring: A Post-Mortem (ft. Theo Maret)

Ep 141 - The Champerty Show

Ep 140 - IMF Rescues Pakistan From the Brink of Default (Again) (ft. Zohra Ahmed)

Ep 139 - A Better Way to Freeze (and Seize?) Russian Assets? (ft. Oona Hathaway)

Ep 138 - Cambodia’s Debts to the US: How “Dirty” Are They? (ft. Randle DeFalco)

Ep 137 - Ukraine's Preliminary Debt Restructuring Deal (ft. Joseph Cotterill)

Ep 136 - Tortious Interference and Inter-Creditor Duties (ft. Andrew Wilkinson)

Ep 135 - El Salvador’s Warrants: Bukele’s Folly? (ft. Ben Heller)

Ep 134 - The Latest in the Argentine GDP Warrant Saga: Drafting Goof or Sneaky Drafting?

Ep 133 - Lessons from the 1980s Debt Crisis (ft. Jerome Sgard)

Ep 132 - A Way to Use Frozen Russian Assets to Help Ukraine? (ft. Ingrid Brunk & Paul Stephan)

Ep 131 - Ukrenergo Confusion

Ep 130 - Who Benefits from Lifting Sanctions on Buying Venezuelan Bonds? (ft. Kejal Vyas)

Ep 129 - The Last Sovereign Bond in New York

Ep 128 - Something Black in the Lentils at Ukrenegro (ft. Chris Spink)

Ep 127 - Back to the Future (Again) -- Russian Frozen Assets Episode (ft. Lauge Poulsen)

Ep 126 - Tierra del Fuego and Tinfoil Hats

Ep 125 - Can Someone Explain What is Happening to SLBs?

Ep 124 - Equity Receiverships and Sovereign Debt (ft. Nate Oman)

Ep 123 - How Much of the YPF Judgement Will Burford, Realistically, Recover?

Ep 122 - Argentina's 2001 Debt Saga Revisited (ft. Greg Makoff)

Ep 121 - What the FRAN? (ft. Ben Heller)

Ep 120 - What to Make of the Stay Order in Hamilton Reserve Bank v. Sri Lanka?

Ep 119 - China’s Defaulted War Debts (ft. Elya Zhang)

Ep 118 - China’s Impact on Sovereign Debt Restructurings (ft. Alexandra Zeitz & Lauren Ferry)

Ep 117 - Dodgy SLBs (ft. Priscila Azevedo Rocha & Todd Gillespie)

Ep 116 - Are sustainability-linked bonds here to stay? (ft. Kenza Bryan)

Ep 115 - Sovereign Sustainability Linked Bonds: What’s Going On? (ft. Ignacio Lagos)

Ep 114 - Venezuelan Debt (ft. Steven Bodzin)

Ep 113 - Chasing Payment on Old Cuban Debt (ft. Rebecca Burton)

Ep 112 - Argentine GDP Warrants (ft. Timothy Dodsworth, Maggie Hemsworth & Severine Saintier)

Ep 111 - Is a Diaspora Bond a Loan or a Gift? (ft. Dan Lainer-Vos)

Ep 110 - Hamilton Bank Redux

Ep 109 - The New Not Normal (ft. Felix Salmon)

Ep 108 - In a Bad State (ft. David Schleicher)

Ep 107 - Ukraine's Victory in the UK Supreme Court (ft. Nate Oman)

Ep 106 - Sri Lanka’s Litigation Risk: Yet Another Problem With the Slow Pace of Restructurings

Ep 105 - Pakistan's Debt Distress (ft. Reza Baqir)

Ep 104 - Do Native American Tribes Pay Too Much to Borrow? (ft. Townsend Hyatt)

Ep 103 - Why is the Zambian Restructuring Dragging on So? (ft. Melissa Butler)

Ep 102 - The Long Shadow of Default (ft. David Gill)

Ep 101 - ESG investing (ft. Natasha White)

Ep 100 - Debt Ceiling Drama (ft. Wailin Wong)

Ep 99 - Fault Lines in Sovereign Debt Restructuring (ft. Jorgelina do Rosario & Karin Strohecker)

Ep 98 - Ghana's Restructuring: Why the Mess? (ft. Chelsey Dulaney)

Ep 97 - Do Bondholders Care About Bankruptcy Access? (ft. Rich Schragger)

Ep 96 - Fear of Fund” and the Bridgetown Initiative (ft. Avinash Persaud)

Ep 95 - Bondholders Rights as a Function of Nationality Rather than Contract (ft. Livia Hinz)

Ep 94 - The Bond King (ft. Mary Childs)

Ep 93 - Lessons from the U.S. Municipal Bond Cases? (ft. Vincent Buccola)

Ep 92 - Ghana’s 2030 FUD Bond

Ep 91 - A Truly Gnarly Year (ft. Sydney Maki)

Ep 90 - Please Sir, May I Read the Contract?

Ep 89 - Pakistan’s Bizarro 2024 Bond

Ep 88 - Contracting for Home Field Advantage (ft. John Coyle)

Ep 87 - Ukraine’s Dodgy Designations

Ep 86 - Why Did the Dog Not Bark? (or Why Did the Creditors Consent So Readily?)

Ep 85 - Making (Non?)Sense of the Russian CDS Auction (ft. Chris Spink)

Ep 84 - Diaspora Bonds (ft. Steven Tepper)

Ep 83 - It’s a Mad, Mad World (ft. Nikou Asgari)