Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2023/4

Spotlight

  • Mark Dwyer, Antony Hainsworth: Flight of the deposits – (2023) (207)

Features

  • Simon Salzedo, Tom Wood: Improper leverage? Own interest conflicts and the designation model in leveraged finance transactions (209)
  • Deborah Sabalot Deane: The Great Game: UK financial services and the Edinburgh Reforms programme (212)
  • Philip Morrison: Board minutes after Sequana: practical advice for the corporate drafter (216)
  • Iain Clacher, Con Keating, Philip Bennett: Are leveraged LDI strategies lawful? A rejoinder and a request (219)
  • Edward J. Nalbantian, Caroline A Talbert: Syndicated lending and third-party agents: a practical primer (224)
  • Thomas Papadogiannis Varouchakis: Risks for investors at the post-insolvency stage of the covered bond issuer (227)
  • Hanif Virji: Valuing swaps: what exactly are “hidden costs” and “mark-to-market”? (231)
  • Riz Mokal: What is an insolvency proceeding? (234)
  • Amy Held: Cryptoassets as property under English law Pt II: ownership, situs and the circular question of jurisdiction (236)
  • Matthew Weaver: Re Duomatic: plugging holes and fixing oversights but not all of the time (241)
  • Tom Marshall, Charles Kerrigan: Warranties in corporate transactions involvng tokens or blockchains: a proposal for a foundational approach (243)
  • Mary Bear, Jon Burke, Christopher P Duerden, John McGrath, Richard Pugh, John M Timperio, Lindsay Trapp, David E Miller, Eric Zeng: Collateralised Fund Obligations (CFOs): th technicolor dreamcoat of fund finance from a US and UK/EU perspective (248)
  • Ferdisha Snagg, Laura Prosperetti, Andreas Wildner: A MiCAR for the UK? Or something else altogether? (255)
  • Spyridon V Bazinas, Georgios Psaroudakis: Security interests in insolvency: UNCITRAL instruments and Greek law compared (259)

In Practice

  • Monia Volpato, Rachit Agarwal: Intra-group loan agreements: what do finance lawyers need to know? (262)
  • David Milligan, Daniel Nevzat, Tamara Ubink: “Double materiality”: what does it mean for non-financial reporting? (264)
  • Marc Craggs, Helen Coverdale: UK government consults on new insolvency model laws (267)

Regulars

  • EU Update by Aikaterini Theodosopoulu, Vasiliki Pappgagiannopoulou (269)
  • Case Analysis: by 3 Verulan Buildings, Wilkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and South Square (271)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (277)
  • Market Movements by CMS (280)
  • Legal Ease with LexisPSL (282)
  • International Briefing from Switzerland (283)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2022/8

Spotlight

  • Luka Lightfoot, James Clarke, Natalie Butchart: I would if I could, but I can’t: the impact of sanctions on finance party interactions in typical debt-financing transactions (511)

Features

  • Matteo Clarkson-Maciel, Paul Fradley: The Excluded Asset Gap: why floating charges capture realisations of unsecured assets (515)
  • Charlotte Eborall, Sarah Parker: Bragging rights: termination clauses and implied duties of good faith (518)
  • Peter de Verneuil Smith, Shail Patel, William Harman: UK securities fraud litigation gains momentum: Autonomy and G4S (521)
  • Stephan Smoktunowicz: Legal conundrums: taking security from English limited partnerships (524)
  • Hin Liu, Louise Gullifer: Financial collateral arrangements in the digital asset world (527)
  • Hanif Virji: Musk v Twitter, it’s not just lawyers who have an opinion on the likelihood of success of the litigation, the market does too! (536)
  • Amy Held: Cryptoassets as property under English Law: surveying the present lie of the land (538)
  • Daniel May, Ceri Morgan, Nick May, Susannah Cogman, Minolee Shah: Russian sovereign debt default: a disputes perspective (543)
  • John Lee: The endgame: issues in enforcement against cryptoassets (545)
  • Phoebus L Athanassiou: Financial sanctions and the case for digital central bank money (549)
  • Chris Wallace: Take-off for digital bonds? The EU DLT pilot regime (553)
  • Michael Huertas: Supervisory tone sharpens further following ECB’s conclusions on its Desk Mapping Review (556)

In Practice

  • Sanjev Warna-kula-suriya, Mathilde Deschanet: The Draft RTS on ESG disclosures for STS securitisations: a hit or a miss? (559)
  • Fiona Henderson, Laura Collins:Embedded finance: key considerations for funders of platform borrowers (560)
  • Sohail Ali, Suhail Mayor: The “crypto crash”: a catalyst for further crypto litigation? (561)

Regulars

  • Book Review by Charles Ho Wang Mak (562)
  • Case Analysis by One Essex Court and Latham & Watkins (563)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (568)
  • Market Movements by CMS (573)
  • Deals (575)
  • Legal Ease with LexisPSL (576)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2022/2

Spotlight

  • Avinash Persaud: Re-imagining safe assets (67)

Features

  • Venessa Parekh, Chhavi Sinha: The UK’s bank ring-fencing legislation: legal uncertainties and potential solutions (70)
  • James Sheehan: Anticipating an FX spot trade: front running or just trading ahead? (74)
  • Antony Hainsworth: Going green: global finance and the UK green taxonomy (77)
  • Charlotte Thomas: Secondary obligations and disguised penalties: where does the law stand following Makdessi? (81)
  • Michael Brown: Transfers of risk or risky transfers? Transferring hedging positions in respect of non-performing loans (86)
  • Hanif Virji: It is dangerous to use pithy terms to describe the complex risks of a fund (88)
  • Stefanie Wilkins: Unanswered questions regarding the Restructuring Plan (91)
  • Heather Waters Borthwick, Tomasz Kulawik, Andrew Mavers: Rise of the jumbo unitranche: a continuing trend in 2022? (93)
  • Amy Held: Baking, staking, Tezos and trusts: crypto sale and repurchase transactions analysed by the High Court (96)
  • Tim Akkouh, Freddie Popplewell: Sinking the Siskina? The Privy Council on the jurisprudential nature of freezing orders (102)
  • Matthew Lavy, Laura Wright: Limitation periods and cryptocurrency fraud (105)
  • Phoebus L. Athanassiou: Non-fungible tokens: select legal issues (107)
  • Emma Giddings, Imogen Garner, Daniel Nevzat: Developing policies for green and sustainable finance for the aviation industry (109)
  • Lisa Curran: Why Italy does not need the trust (for now) (115)

In Practice

  • Eleanor Dole Sheaf, Rupert Lewis: Overview of anticipated focus areas for BBLS litigation (117)
  • Leon Stephenson: The ESG revolution in funds finance (119)
  • Andrew Bryan, Julia Machin: The EU’s AML blacklist nad SSPE’s (121)

Regulars

  • Case analysis by One Essex Court (122)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (126)
  • Market Movements by CMS (133)
  • Deals (135)
  • Legal Ease by Lexis PSL (136)
  • International Briefings from China, Brazil and France (137)