Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2025/7

Spotlight

  • Trevor Clark: Clarity versus confusion in leveraged finance: Part 1 (431)

Feature

  • Georgia Quenby: Is there room for more than one concept of Material Adverse Change in your Facility Agreement? (436)
  • William Wilson, Charlotte Ward: You can dip twice but can you only prove once? The insolvency implications of “double dip” transactions (440)
  • Charlotte Eborall: Atishoo, atishoo: we all fall down? Implications of business disposals upon cessation of business clauses (444)
  • Philip Wells, Ella Richards: Creative class composition: the hunt for the anchor class (447)
  • Lee Federman, Mamoun Shafi: Layering it on thick: the evolution of the super senior intercreditor agreement (450)
  • Henry Warwick, Vishnu Patel: Conspiracy theories: unlawful means conspiracy and the problem of private rights (452)
  • Etay Katz, Simon Williams: Tokenisation of investment funds: some legal challenges (455)
  • Piers Reynolds, Laura Feldman: Financial crime reforms creating new risks and challenges for firms (459)
  • Matthew Weaver, Andrew Brown: “Make-whole” clauses under Ch 11 and Pt 26A restructuring plans (463)
  • Cecily Crampin, Daniel Black: Will lenders have confidence to lend against commonhold? (466)
  • James Clarke, Ben Ko: The continuing inviolability of standby letters of credit (469)
  • Dil-veer Kang, Ben Regnard-Weinrabe, Anna Lewis-Martinez, Rory Copeland: A guide to virtual IBANs and their regulation (473)
  • Arut Kannan: Revitalising European securitisation: a French perspective (476)
  • Panpan Sun: Can a watchdog retreat revitalise the London market? (482)

In Practice

  • Adam Burk, Ben Saunders: Specialty finance to securitisation (485)
  • Anna Nolan, Stephen Blank: Third-party releases and cross-border restructurings: enforceability of UK-issued nonconsensual third-party releases in the United States (489)
  • Helen Coverdale, Nick Grandage: A Brexit re-set? How will the UK’s accession to the 2019 Hague Convention impact English legal opinions? (491)
  • Johnny Lim, Han Ming Ho, Michael Kwan, Shawn Tan: Singapore’s equities market: a new dawn for capital raising and investing? (493)

Regulars

  • Case Analysis by Verulam Buildings (495)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (498)
  • Market Movements by CMS (504)
  • Deals (506)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis+® UK (507)
  • International Briefings from China and Denmark (508)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2023/10

Spotlight

  • Adrian Cohen, Antonia Pegg: “Debtor-in-possession” processes and moratoria in English restructuring and insolvency law: a hesitant journey (659)

Features

  • Jonathan Davies-Jones, Alexia Knight: When is a bank put on notice of an agent’s fraud? (664)
  • Peter de Verneuil Smith, Philip Hinks, Judy Fu: Damages under ss 90 and 90A FSMA (667)
  • Steven Fennell: Limited liability partnerships: authority to borrow and to give security (672)
  • Andrew Kinnes, Hamish Patrick: Moveable transactions: Scotland v England: Round 2 – taking security over chattels (675)
  • Charlotte Eborall: “Packing” a punch to litigation funders? (678)
  • Shameer Shah, Ben Burton: Excess Cash Flow: time to sweep it under the carpet? (682)
  • Duncan Sheehan: Identifying floating charges after Re Avanti Communications Ltd (in Administration) (684)
  • Lodewijk van Setten: DeFi platforms: delineating the regulatory perimeter (687)
  • Sanjev Warna-kula-suriya, Dan MarcusHybrid facilities: the promise, the reality and the hope (691)
  • Ferdisha Snagg, Andreas Wildner: What is in a name? The regulators seek to have the final word on the meaning of trading venue under MiFID (694)
  • Kelesi Blundell, Ioannis Asimakopoulos: Banking regulation in the aftermath of SVB: lessons for regulators and supervisors (698)
  • Chloe Carpenter: Avanti Communications and the use of textbook and articles when undertaking research (700)
  • Jacob J Meagher: The implications of the novel “Audit Duty” on professional service firms: Part 1: Rihan v Ernst & Young (702)

In Practice

  • Kate Vyvyan, Jessica Walker, Julia MachinGreen expectations: ESMA’s Statement on sustainability prospectus disclosure (709)
  • Alex Martin, Jana Zupikova: Private portfolio financings on the rise(711)
  • Samantha Holland, William Humphries: Overhauling the rules on the law of the arbitration agreement? (712)

Regulars

  • Competition Law Update by Kirkland & Ellis LLP (713)
  • Book Review by Ross Cranston (715)
  • Case Analysis by 3 Verulam Buildings (716)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (718)
  • Market Movements by CMS (721)
  • Deals (724)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis+® UK (725)
  • International Briefings from New Zealand, Finland and Hong Kong (726)

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 2022/7

Spotlight

  • Richard Blakeley: Frozen Russian funds: can the courts let it go? (443)

Features

  • Charlotte Eborall: Waiving goodbye to termination rights in default scenario negotiations (446)
  • Matthey McGhee: Orthodoxy prevails? How receiving banks avoid liability for their customers’ frauds (450)
  • Alex Haines: Licence to Quill: legal services licences following the recent wave of Russian sanctions (453)
  • Hanif Virji: Pre-hedging versus front-running: six of one, and half a dozen of the other? (455)
  • Dionne Brown, Tibor Korman: Anything but equity! Structuring considerations for a debt for equity swap (4579
  • Karl Clowry: Loan defaults: untimely remedies and potential hangovers in credit agreements (461)
  • Scott Ralston: Cryptoassets, consumers and foreign arbitration (464)
  • Katherine Ratcliffe: The classification of interest rate swaps as contingent liability cases (468)
  • Tom Marshall: Blockchain interoperability: connecting decentralised infrastructure for traditional finance (470)
  • Nik Yeo: Tiptoe through the tulips: fiduciary and common law duties of care in cryptocurrency (474)
  • Daniel Benedyk: Extending the cloak: individual immunity for foreign officials (477)
  • Nora Beausang: Brass in pocket: the developing benchmark for establishing “consumer” status (479)
  • Isabel Aguilar Alonso: Protection of securities under custody in Spain (484)

In Practice

  • Matthew Ayre, Jason Larkins: Recurring revenue-based deals (487)
  • Shane McDonald, Oliver Trotman, Chiagozie Ezennia: Recent trends in leveraged financing: the ever more borrower friendly market (489)
  • Lu’ayy Minwer Al-Rimawi: The Bank of England’s loose understanding of Islamic financial law (490)

Regulars

  • ESG Update by Oriol Espar and César Herrero (494)
  • Case Analysis by 3 Verulam Buildings (498)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (501)
  • Market Movements by CMS (504)
  • Deals (506)
  • Legal Ease with LexisPSL (508)