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Capital Markets

PIPE Transactions—Problem. Creativity. Solution.
Hedging PIPEs—No Need to Call the Plumber, Martha. That's a Derivative Embedded in the PIPE
Registered Directs—A Public PIPE
Dribbling It Out—Equity Distribution Programs
Open IPO—Auction Distribution Methodologies
Incapital—Bonds Made Simple
BASICS—What's in a Name
Passave—The Cash-Only Line
An Organic Makeover—Protalix
Glitnir—Smart Banking
Call It What You Will—Pre-Marketed or Wall-Crossed: The New Offering of Choice
Time and Time Again—An Innovative Use of an ATM
Specially Purposeful—Helping a Special Purpose Acquisition Company Finance
Lonely at the Top (of the World)—Restructuring and Recapitalizing Icelandic Banks
Showdown in the American West—Main Street vs. Wall Street

Hybrids

The Elusive D Basket—Hitting the Trifecta
Hybrids: A Case Study—Saving Tax Dollars Makes CENts
Hybrids: A Case Study—Hitting it out of the Park: Bank of America Corporation HITS
Synthetic Equity—It's the Real Thing
Hybrids in Japan—Softbank Corp.

Derivatives

Betting on Oneself—Issuer Equity Derivative Transactions
UBS—Tailor-Made
Monetizations—Cashing In Without Cashing Out
Happy Meals—144A Converts
Deferred Compensation—Immediate Solution
Derivatives on Steroids (Notionally)—Leveraged Total Return Swaps
"Intelligent Design"—Evolutionary Changes in Equity Derivatives
Weakness of Power—Collateralized Hedging Programs for the Energy Market
Hedging Hedge Funds—Financing Hedge Funds

Structured Products and Insurance-Linked Products

Credit Where Credit is Due—Structured Products with Embedded Credit Default Features
A Matter of "Principal"—Structured Products with Principal Protection
Who's Got the Power?—Energy Commodity Linked Structures and Energy Transactions
Jack of All Trades—Master of Structured Products
The Odd Couple—Structured Products and Life Insurance
Holy BOLI!—Diversified and Principal-Protected
Power to the People—MLPs
Lucrative Knock-off—Covered Bonds in the U.S.
Northern Lights—Canadian Covered Bond Issuers
Catastrophe Bonds and Side Cars—Whose Risk is it Anyway?
Life Settlements and Premium Finance
Life Insurance Securitizations and Structured Products—Where Morality Risk Meets the Capital Markets
Mind the Gap