Abstract
This Article addresses a topic at the intersection of finance, agency, contract, and trust law: the pre-default duties of an indenture trustee for bondholders. The existing scholarship on indenture trustee duties focuses on the post-default scenario, when the indenture trustee is required to act as a prudent person in like circumstances on behalf of the bondholders. No prior scholarship addresses an indenture trustee’s pre-default duties. It is critical to try to define those duties because activist investors in the $42-trillion-plus bond market increasingly are making pre-default demands on indenture trustees, requiring them to know how to respond.
Recommended Citation
Steven L. Schwarcz,
Indenture Trustee Duties: The Pre-Default Puzzle,
88 U. Cin. L. Rev.
659
(2020)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.uc.edu/uclr/vol88/iss3/2