Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2023/9

Spotlight

  • Sarah Worthington: Fixed and floating charges: still favouring absolutism over multi-factored nuance (583)


Features

  • Geoffrey Wynne, Jacqueline Cook: The Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023: the key to the future? (587)
  • Richard Boynton, Kon Asimacopoulos, Sean Lacey, Hannah Crawford, Kate Stephenson: Galapagos: proper construction of Distressed Disposal provisions in intercreditor agreement (590)
  • James Hall, William Golightly: The risks of attempting to rectify mistakes in security documents, without seeking a court order (594)
  • Daniel Winick, Mark Presso, Andrew Young, Heba Hazzaa: Wall Street-led secondary trading of private credit loans: considerations for stakeholders (599)
  • Hamish Patrick, Andrew Kinnes: Moveable transactions: Scotland v England: Round 1 – assigning receivables (602)
  • Piers Reynolds, Laura Feldman: New challenges for tackling Authorised Push Payment fraud (605)
  • Lee Federman, Tom Miller: Don’t put all your debt in one basket: debt incurrence flexibility in leveraged finance transactions (610)
  • Richard Hoyle: The fiduciary’s divestment dilemma: ESG and the age of climate change (612)
  • Rachel Tandy, Chris Haan: Collective stress or collective redress? Examining available mechanisms for securities litigation in England and Wales (616)
  • Tim Lees, Sarah Jane O’Leary, Kasia Lorenc: In sync across borders: embracing parallel processes for successful restructurings (620)
  • Thomas Wong: English law-governed Keepwell Deeds enforced by Hong Kong courts against PRC insolvent companies (623)
  • Chris Wallace: The Digital Securities Sandbox (627)
  • Giovanni Bandi, Yasser Nasser: The Cambridge Regulatory Genome Project: a must in a world of regulation technologies (629)

In Practice

  • Michael Leadbeater: Super senior facilities: a recap on key documentary terms (632)
  • Rebecca Oliver: Taking effective security over future acquired assets: the importance of contractual intention (634)
  • Matthew Cox. Lana Ahern, Gabby White: Can the consent of an obligor be taken at face value? (636)

Regulars

  • Book Review by Ross Cranston, LSE (638)
  • EU Update by Mauro Megliani, Catholic University of Milan (639)
  • Case Analysis by Hogan Lovells and Volterra Fietta (641)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (646)
  • Market Movements by CMS (649)
  • Deals (651)
  • Legal Ease by Lexis® PSL (652)
  • International Briefing from Switzerland (654)

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 2022/5

Spotlight

  • Thomas F. Huertas: Are sanctions sustainable? (295)

Features

  • Philip Wood: Russia and Ukraine: the end of Article VIII 2b? (297)
  • Jamie McDougall, Shan Qureshi, Ben Kovacka, Shweta Rao: Intralot’s drop-down restructuring games: priming pari passu noteholders, circumventing non-consenters and artificially reducing asset values (299)
  • David McIlroy, Ruhi Sethi-Smith: Bankers’ liability for Authorised Push Payment fraud: the evolution of the Quincecare duty (304)
  • Tim Calland: The Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Act 2022: what does it mean for landlords and their funders? (307)
  • Jonathan Haines: Sanctions test illegality clauses in financial contracts (311)
  • Riz Mokal: Does the liquidator have a duty to deal with trust assets? (313)
  • Jeremiah Wagner, Dan Marcus: Fund finance: the regulatory requirements applicable to securitisations in the EU and UK (319)
  • Christopher Bond: Another roll of the dice: the elusive line between hedging and speculation (323)
  • Hin Liu: Transfers of equitable interests in the digital asset world (325)
  • David Murphy: Saying how versus saying what: the choice of regulatory style in margin policy (335)
  • Chris Wallace: Inside the machine: the European Commission’s proposed consolidated tape for bonds (337)
  • Nakul Dewan: Regulating cryptocurrency by policing advertisements: the approach in the UK, Singapore, India and Spain (340)
  • Richard Calnan: Interpreting statutes and contracts: what are the differences? Part II (344)

In Practice

  • Thomas C. Miller, Aidan E. Lawes: Is it time to review your “standard” increased costs clauses in facility documentation? (347)
  • Ben Thompson: Core-plus infrastructure and leveraged financing: the continued convergence of terms (350)
  • Hugh Evans, Claire Clayton-Stead: The Quincecare duty: 30 years on (352)
  • Book Review by Ross Cranston (353)
  • Case Analysis by One Essex Court and Baker McKenzie (354)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (360)
  • Market Movements by CMS (365)
  • Deals (367)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis®PSL (368)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2022/3

Spotlight

  • 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)
  • Book Review by Ross Cranston (206)
  • Case Analysis by Hogan Lovells (207)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (211)
  • Market Movements by CMS (215)
  • Deals (217)
  • Legal Ease by Lexis PSL (218)
  • International Briefing from Denmark (219)