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Philip Wells, Ella Richards: Creative class composition: the hunt for the anchor class (447)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Sarah Peterson: A current legal problem when private equity is distressed (439)
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Mohamed Sacranie: When AI trading bots go rogue, think outside the (black) box (450)
Matthew Padian, Joanna Charter: Security release filings, a rogue filer and the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (454)
Rosalind Phelps: Does a bank owe a “retrieval duty” to the victims of fraud? (457)
Thomas Evans, Vishnu Patel: Amendments to the Payment Services Regulations to combat Authorised Push Payment Fraud (460)
Douglas Deutsch, Michelle McGreal, Sarah Campbell, Robert Johnson:_ DIP financing in US Chapter 11 cases: how sponsors are utilising equity conversions to obtain recoveries in reorganised debtors (464)
Zara McGlone: Risks for lenders as sole signatories on blocked accounts (468)
Julian Craughan, David Palmer, Steven Minke, Jane Griffiths: New originators, are you ready for securitisation? (470)
Nicholas Kagan, Paul Eastham, Rachel Stables, Andrea Thomas: Certain key issues in private credit: loan structuring, tax issues and conflict considerations ((473)
Pim Rank, Ebbe Rogge: Shortening the settlement cycle to T+1: not if but when (476)
Russell Kelsall. High Court dismisses unmeritorious “freeman on the land” claims against mortgage lenders (479)
Edward Xuejun Li, Monica Neamtiu, Zhiyuan Tu: Strategic secrecy in loan covenant disclosures (481)
Paul Marshall: Electronic trade documents: what is a reliable computer system? and problems in contracting for a “reliable system”: clarification and correction (483)
In Practice
James Bell: Advising a guarantor (485)
Helen Coverdale, Matthew ThornBe careful what you register: Re VE Global UK Ltd (488)
Mark Drury, Jennifer Ellis, Kelly Knight, Ben Kerawala, Uden de Silva: IMN Euro CLO Forum 2024 key takeaways (490)
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Features
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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)
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