Scott Ralston: Lex situs and its discontents: English security over foreign assets (514)
Isabel Neelands, Anand Kannappan, Rebecca Qian: Debt financing of AI companies: identifying “AI assets” for the security net (517)
Vasanti Selvaratnam, Paul Schwartfeger, Kaity Crowe: (Un)reasonable endeavours: force majeure clauses and offers of non-contractual performance (521)
David Turner, Conor Ewing: Assignment or charge over warranty and indemnity insurance policies as security? (525)
Sarah-Jane Denton, Simon Witney: The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: impact on financial services businesses (528)
Taraq Zafar Rasheed, Bogomil Kukovski: Mandatory collateralisation of hedging transactions under senior secured facilities (531)
Lee Federman, Adam Wolinsky: IOSCO Leveraged Loans and Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs) Good Practices for Consideration: how will this impact leveraged loan documentation? (534)
Karl Clowry, Seán McGuinness: Tacking: what further advances since 2002? (537)
Lucy Williams, Linda El-Halabi: Leading the charge (pun intended): international security transactions in the Middle East (542)
Roger Gherson, Valeriya Grebenkova, Cong Gao: Financial sanctions and investment treaty arbitration (545)
David Siesage: Judicial review in the financial services sector: a question of risk and reward (548)
Kit Smith: Anti-suit relief: Bourlakova and Magomedov and the non-contractual jurisdiction (551)
Danny Busch, Matthias Lehmann: Turn the Unfair Terms Directive into a Regulation! (554)
In Practice
Charles Malpass, Roxanne Paes: Lending transactions: putting the power in powers of attorney (558)
Charles Kerrigan, Claire Whittaker: Retrieval augmented generation in LLMs: AI for lawyers (560)
Hywel Jenkins, Jack Moore, Cat Dankos: Beware of regulators bearing gifts (562)
Jeremy Sher, Benjamin Fellows, Leontia McArdle: SRA warning on the conduct of mass financial mis-selling claims: what will be the impact on motor finance claims? (564)
Regulars
Case Analysis by One Essex Court and 4 Pump Court (565)
Tetyana Nesterchuk: Unlocking the use of Russian Central Bank assets: is collateralisation the answer? (295)
Features
Louise Gullifer: Non-notification receivables financing: can the assignor sue without joining the assignee? (299)
Jeremy Duffy, Tom Falkus, Richard Lloyd, Sherri Snelson, Samantha Richardson: Fund finance and sustainability: new guidance on the application of the SLLPs (303)
Christopher Boardman, Tom Beasley: Pitfalls with board resolutions authorising loan facilities (306)
Daniel Lightman, Reuben Comiskey: The rule in Clayton’s Case: its application in non-banking relationships (309)
Brie Stevens-Hoare: Delivering valid notices of assignment: s 136 in 2024 (312)
Matthew Parker: Does the restoration of Crown preference mean that guarantors can get off the hook? (316)
Emmar Radmore, Natalie Caple: Joining the dots: a wider use for AML e-verification tools? (319)
Nicholas Broomfield: A mortgagee’s accountability for mortgage valuations following Shokrollah-Babaee v EFG Private Bank (321)
Angela Batterson: The dynamics of insurers as lenders in the NAV market (325)
Charles Kerrigan, Charlotte Bellamy: Artificial intelligence in syndicated lending (327)
Sam Roberts: Channel Islands and statutory fences: obtaining evidence for use overseas (333)
Paul Ferguson, Karl Clowry, Harriet Territt, Aziz Abdul: Going cashless: the treatment of cryptoassets in insolvency proceedings (335)
Caroline Dawson, Paul Ellison, Sara Evans: Enhancing trust in ESG ratings: welcome moves to fix the ecosystem (337)
In Practice
Laura Smith: Rated subscription lines: bringing fund governing documents and finance documents into focus (341)
Jon Ford, Michael Tan: CP24/2: a comparison with other International Financial Centres (343)
Lee Harding, Prag Sivaguru: Culture and D&I in Financial Services: the latest reforms to shift the dial (344)
Lu’ayy Minwer Al-Rimawi: The critical importance of “Shariah compliance” in the Islamic financial services industry: the UK’s need for jurisprudential clarity (346)
David Quest: Large language models: a legal liability minefield (735)
Features
Charles Kerrigan: What does AI mean for professional services business models? (738)
Tom Leary: Regulation 7(4) : when is an entity controlled by a sanctioned person? (742)
Jamie Macpherson, Andrew Perkins, Henry-Stewart Brown, Samuel Brooks, Sophie Donnithorne-Tait: Private credit continuation funds: a developing frontier for secondary transactions? (745)
Chee Ho Tham: Assignment (or novation) of indemnity policies? (748)
Henry O’Connor: The key to harnessing the ownership powr of NFTs: the need for standardised decentralisation protocols (753)
George Pelling, Ijeoma Nwala, Samantha Hutchinson, Adam Blakemore, Satvi Vepa, Alix Prentice: Enforcing security over limited partner interests in English limited partnerships (758)
Stephanies Tozer, Kavish Shah: Damages for the damnified? What DOES Law of Property Act s 104(2) mean? (763)
Andrew Thornton, Ben Shaw: A company’s objects: do they still matter? (765)
Tauhid Ijaz, George Kiladze: Significant Risk Transfer’s impact on the output floor under Basel III: the EU’s proposed panacea unveiled (768)
Peter Alderdice: Scotland’s new statuory pledge: taking security from individuals and unincorporated organisations (774)
Alexia Knight: The Mandatory Reimbursement Scheme: the obvious points of conflict within the proposals (777)
Anthea Bowater, Simon Orton: ESG litigation in the context of financial services: a global gear change? (779)
Edward F Greene, Jared Gerber, David Lopez, Duane McLaughlin, Emily Arndt, Sabrina Singer, Brandon Welcome: The need for a modernised response to financial product regulation (783)
In Practice
Kerry Langton: Lender diligence over Intellectual Property Rights and taking security over domain names (787)
Stuart Murdoch, Rory Milkova: Does the „D” in PSD3 stands for „divergence”? PSD3 and payment services in the UK (789)
James Barrett: Coaching andd the corporate witness (791)
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)
William Edwards: Decentralised Autonomuos Organisations: unincorporated companies by another name? (147)
Features
Edward Cumming, Harry Samuels: Seeing the world differently: litigation arising from ESG-related disclosure (150)
Daniel Winick, Andrew Young, Peter Dahlen, Thomas Critchley, Heba Hazzaa, Neil Cavanagh: Across the pond and back again: What direct lenders shold know before deploying historic dry powder (154)
Penny Angell, Dorothy Livingston: Reform of the law on deeds: options for the Law Commission (157)
Hin Liu: Digital Assets: the mystery of the „link” (161)
Timothy Cleary: Synthetic securitisation made simple: The EU STS Securitisation framework embraces synthetic securitisation (171)
Lodewijk van Setten, Charles Kerrigan: Digitised trading and settlement: Exchange 4.0 (176)
Piers Reynolds, Laura Feldman, Jack Helyar: The new FCA consumer duty: the interrelationship with regulatory and common law obligations (179)
Rumen Cholakov: Takeover Code Changes 2021: can lenders be forced to fund an illegal deal? (182)
Andrew Henderson: Prudential consolidation under the IFPR: Making sense of the ancillary services undertakings concept (184)
Chris Wallace, Charles Kerrigan: Something in the ether? The allure of digital bonds (186)
Anya Proops, Rupert Paines: Lloyd vs Google: the end of class action data privacy claim s or just the beginning? (189)
Richard Calnan: Interpreting stautes and contracts: what are the differences? Part 1 (192)
Spyridon V Bazinas: Secured finance law reform: the Joint Coordination Network (195)
In Practice
Jeremiah Wagner, Dan Marcus: Fund finance: the securisation question (198)
Charles Kerrigan: Crypto yield (199)
Hugh Evans, Sohail Ali: Section 32 Limitation Act: an evolving yet difficult route for claimants (202)
Carl Baker: The Bank of England’s first ever bail-in recognition (203)
Regulars
Competition Law Update by Kirkland & Ellis International LLP (204)
