Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2025/5

Spotlight

  • Suzanne Rab: Between co-operation and collusion? Liability Management Exercises in Europe (291)

Features

  • Vanessa Knapp: Proposed UK corporate redomiciliation: issues for lenders (295)
  • Philip Morrison: ECCTA 2023 and corporate decision-making: considerations for corporate practitioners (298)
  • Michelle Gilmore-Parry: „High water” mark EBIDTA provisions: should lenders fight fires with a pre-agreed „low water” mark EBITDA de minimis? (300)
  • Matthew Padian: So long, farewell: thoughts on transferring security (303)
  • Jonathan Haines: Digital assets and reform of the financial collateral regime (306)
  • Emily Fox, Maura McIntosh, Ceri Morgan, Vanessa Naish, Tiphaine Leverrier: Asymmetric juridiction clauses: when will they be effective? (310)
  • Khrystyna Khanas, Andrii Chornous: Recognition and enforcement of Ukrainian judgments against the Russian Federation in the UK (314)
  • Chris McDermott, Trent E Lindsay, Alix Prentice, Georg Pelling, Eric Starr, John Donnelly: Artice 12 of the US UCC and the draft English Property (Digital Assetsetc) Bill 2024: potential impacts on fund finance transactions (318)
  • Isabel Neelands, Trisha Shah: The lucrative AI debt market – disrupting traditional debt lending: Part 2 (323)
  • Peter Schwartz, Adrian Chiodo, Alexander Clarke: An overview of debt and royalty financing structures for life sciences businesses (327)
  • Jamie Rogers, Ellie Rees, Bethan Savage: Political risk insurance: safeguarding global supply chains amidst geopolitical tensions? (331)
  • Chloe Carpenter: Cross-border privilege (333)
  • Martin Blake, Graham Dunn: Understanding debt finance in football: debt factoring and secured loans (335)

In Practice

  • Fiona Swords: Beware minority shakeholders: lending to the professional services sector (339)
  • Jon Ford, Jack Moore, Clara Browne: Money laundering through the market: enhancing financial crime systems and controls for wholesale firms and trading venues (341)
  • Elenya Ekhaletruo, Claire Clayton-Stead: Merricks v Mastercard settlement: CAT clips litigation funders’ wings (343)

Regulars

  • Book Review by Simon C Y Wong (344)
  • Case Analysis by One Essex Court and Forum Chambers (346)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (350)
  • Market Movements by CMS (356)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis+® UK (358)
  • International Briefing from Finland (359)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2024/7

Spotlight

  • Sarah Peterson: A current legal problem when private equity is distressed (439)

Features

  • Matthew Watson: Everything settled? Risks for buyers trading on the secondary debt market (441)
  • Riz Mokal: The mysterious pari passu principle (443)
  • 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)

Regulars

  • Case Analysis by 3 Verulam Buildings (491)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (496)
  • Market Movements by CMS (499)
  • Deals (501)
  • Legal Ease by Lexis+ UK (502)
  • International Briefing from The Netherlands (503)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2023/7

Spotlight

  • Dominic Gregory: Sustainable finance: perspectives on some of the difficult questions (443)
  • Jeremy Duffy, Richard Lloyd, Samantha Richardson: Documenting SLLs: a comparison of the LMA/LSTA approach to sustainability provisions (447)
  • Marcus Mander: The “purview” principle in an era of rising interest rates (450)
  • Darren Littlejohn, Jacklyn Hoffman, Alessia Saracino: Giving notice under an ISDA: lessons learned and potential new approaches (453)
  • Matthew Padian: Security reinstatement provisions: worth the paper they are written on?
  • Nick Yeo: Crypto exchanges: the basics (455)
  • Brad Pomfret: Where does Barton v Morris leave the law of unjust enrichment in relation to payment for services provided under a contract? (463)
  • Keith Rowley, Elizabeth Ovley: Are leveraged LDI strategies lawful? How the courts would construe reg 5 of the OPSRs (467)
  • Trevor Borthwick, Alexandra Wood: “Credit bidding” unsecured debt in an administration (471)
  • Camilla Macpherson: ESG investing: a growing gulf between the US and Europe? (473)
  • Clarissa Jones: Revisiting the transaction at an undervalue risk to UK covered bondholders (476)
  • Sarah Green, Matthew Kimber: Law Commission Report on Digital Assets (478)
  • Peter Dodge: Contributory negligence defences to claims against financial institutions (480)
  • Simge Aslan: Staking services in insolvency: problems of certainty and predictability (483)

In Practice

  • Matthew Hodkin: Pillar Two: the global minimum tax and its implications for financing transactions (487)
  • Joseph Wren, Nick Morgan: The initial margin “big bang”: the aftermath (488)
  • Delphine Currie, James Wilkinson, Ed Tyler: UK equity capital markets: reforming the listing regime (490)

Regulars

  • Case Analysis by 3 Verulam Buildings, Selborne Chambers and 4 Stone Buildings (491)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (496)
  • Market Movements by CMS (499)
  • Deals (501)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis+®UK (502)
  • International Briefings from Spain (503)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2022/6

Spotlight

  • Jonathan Dawid, Emilie Gonin: Countering counter sanctions: treaty based remedies for investors in Russian assets? (371)

Features

  • Gavin Irwin, Merry van Woodenberg: Financial sanctions: prohibitions extended to persons „connected with” Russia (374)
  • Matthew Padian, Lucy Trott: The impact of the new Economic Crime Act on loan documentation (378)
  • Ryan Ferro: Knowing receipt and the proprietary base: Part II (380)
  • Hanif Virji: A contradiction of terms: is stock-lending compliant with the ethos of an ESG fund? (384)
  • Chloe Carpenter: Interest under a loan linked to a base rate: issues to consider (3869
  • Hamish Patrick: Movable Transactions (Scotland) Bill: some funding opportunities (389)
  • Tim Akkouh, David Baker: Reforms to Unexplained Wealth Orders: the sword and the shield (3929
  • Raza Naeem, Seraphina Chew: SFDR RTS ens ESG sectoral amendments: mismatches and implementation (395)
  • Julian Craughan, Andrew Carey, Andrea Salsi, Steven Minke: Talking about a revolution: making ESG securitisations mainstream (397)
  • William Johnston: Protection from creditors: the law’s continuing development for corporates in Ireland (401)
  • Tom Astle, Charlotte Lamb: Direct lending in a distressed world (405)
  • Paul Mousel: Protection of clients’ securities in Luxembourg law (4089
  • Hossein Nabilou: Transaction finality in blockchains: legal considerations (411)

In Practice

  • Michael Lyons, Ellen Lake, Hannah Ovaisi, Miranda Harrison: Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022: sanctions update (416)
  • Jeremiah Wagner, Kamal Dalal: Don’t forget about the NSIA: potential implications for securitisations (418)
  • Charles Kerrigan, Ruth Marken, Yasmin Musker: Financial covenants for fast-growth businesses: the new market norms (420)

Regulars

  • Competition Law Update by Kirkland & Ellis International LLP (422)
  • Book Review by Sarah Paterson (425)
  • Case Analysis by Hogan Lovells and Milbank (427)
  • Regulation Updata by Norton Rose Fulbright (432)
  • Market Movements by CMS (437)
  • Deals (439)
  • Legal Ease by Lexis®PSL (440)