Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2025/2

Spotlight

  • Julius Grower, William Day: Credit brokers as fiduciaries, and consequences for lenders: Part 1 (75)
  • Julius Grower, William Day: Credit brokers as fiduciaries, and consequences for lenders: Part 2

Feature

  • Avinash Persaud: Climate-related disasters, why insurance is not the solution and what is (85)
  • Louise Merrett: Conflicts of laws and the ratification of unauthorised acts by agents (87)
  • Benedict Tompkins: The LMA sovereign immunity clause and enforcement proceedings (90)
  • Nelson Enonchong: Secured lending: when is the lender put on inquiry in a “hybrid” transaction? (93)
  • Douglas Deutsch, Michelle McGreal, Tim Lees, Sarah Campbell: Insolvency and automatic acceleration in US Chapter 11: to accelerate, or not to accelerate, that is the question (98)
  • Reuven Young, Maxim Van de moortel: Private IPOs as a capital raising and exit strategy in today’s market environment (102)
  • Shail Patel: Reliance revisited: High Court construes statutory requirements for UK securities fraud claims (105)
  • Matthew Parker: Force majeure in loan agreements: illegality under the standard form LMA clause (107)
  • Adam Eckersley-Waites: National Security and Investment Act 2021: three years later (112)
  • Ciarán McGonagle, Andrei Kirilenko: Schrödinger’s property? D’Aloia and the legal superposition of digital assets (115)
  • John-Patrick Asimakis: Identifying the place of performance in English law transactions involving foreign banks (118)
  • David McIlroy, Clyde Darrell: Crypto-lending: does the UK’s consumer credit regime offer an avenue for redress? (122)

In Practice

  • Dean Naumowicz, Delyth Hughes, Nick Surry: Key hedging considerations in negotiating intercreditor terms (126)
  • Hywel Jenkins, Ian Thomas, Elizabeth Stephens: Modernising the redress system: exploring the need for alternative processes (128)
  • Dominic Stuttaford, Susanna Brain: Interest deductibility: the “unallowable purpose” rule after Blackrock, JTI and Kwik-Fit (129)

Regulars

  • Book Reviews by Professor Bobby V Reddy (131)
  • Case Analysis by One Essex Court (133)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (137)
  • Market Movements by CMS (144)
  • Deals (146)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis+® UK (147)
  • International Briefings from the USA and Finland (148)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2024/1

Spotlight

  • Duncan Sheehan: Digital Assets: why the Law Commission are wrong about control (3)


Features

  • Andrew Thompson, Philip MorrisonCarillon: a director’s strict duty to know the company’s true financial position? (5)
  • Rabin Kok: Third party rights and the LMA suite of Debt Documents (8)
  • Alan Davies, Michelle Gilmore-Parry: The rise of “hybrids” in the ever-converging PIK and Preferred Equity landscape (11)
  • Akber Datoo: Offer and acceptance … and sailing into the terms of decentralised networks (15)
  • Stephen Moverley Smith, Rachel Carver: Can beneficial noteholders commence insolvency proceedings? Diverging views emerge across the offshore world (21)
  • Dan Hirschovits, Aaron Ferner, Joshua Bunn: Going public: the impact of IPOs on facility agreements (24)
  • Susan Wong, Lim Wei Lee, Felix Lee: Sanctions clauses in documentary credit transactions: a cautionary tale (28)
  • David Rouch: Investor duties and sustainability: the turn towards tackling sustainability challenges (31)
  • Matthew Parfitt: Just a minute: inserting the time into pre-prepared board minutes (36)

  • Benjamin Pilling, Ruth Bala: Shared appreciation mortgages: how far can the “unfair relationships” regime stretch? (38)

  • Ciarán McGonagle, Finn Casey Fierro: For whom the code tolls: an integrated, modular architecture for smart derivatives contracts (41)
  • Simon Crown, Monica Sah, Sara Evans: Third country market access for core banking services in the EU: all change from autumn 2026 (45)
  • Jacob J Meagher: The implications of the novel “Audit Duty” on professional service firms: Part 2 (49)

In Practice

  • James Greene, Martin Forbes, Nicola Chapman, Man Hay Yip, : The art of the intercreditor
    Ripping up the rulebook: financing the energy transition (54)
  • Chris Armstrong, Christopher Sullivan: Preparing for a new UK securitisation framework (56)

Regulars

  • Case Analysis by 3 Verulam Buildings (58)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (64)
  • Market Movements by CMS (69)
  • Deals (71)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis+® UK (72)