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 2022/4

Spotlight

  • Michael Huertas: Geopolitical uncertainty: managing market shutdown risks (223)

Features

  • Sa’ad Hossain: Is your MAE/MAC clause ready for the next pandemic? (230)
  • Chee Ho Tham: Burdening assignees with arbitration agreements via “conditional benefits” (234)
  • Kathrine Meloni: The National Security and Investment Act 2021 revisited: when are secured creditors obliged to make mandatory notifications? (239)
  • Helen Pugh: Delegation not abdication: directors’ duties under scrutiny in syndicated loans (243)
  • Kelly Sporn: Sustainability/ESG ratings: does the market measure up? (245)
  • Hugh Sims, Jay Jagasia: Blu-sky thinking: the Interfoto principle and terms incorporated by reference (247)
  • Faizal Khan, Thea Gausel, Toby Mann, Deborah Neale: Transfer restrictions in leveraged lending transactions: time for a re-assessment? (251)
  • Scott Ralston: Foreign financial crises and the consumer (255)
  • Anna Lintner, Philippe Kuhn: Quincecare and the liability of receiving banks: the Canadian story (259)
  • Julia Lu, Timothy Cant, David Capps: A comparison of re-proposed SEC Rule 9j-1 and the UK/EU Market Abuse Regulation (262)
  • Chloe Bell, Christopher Whitehouse: Stablecoins as security? Never say tether (266)
  • Georgia M Quenbí: The impact of the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 and the Finance Act 2020 on drafting Loan Documentation and Practice: update (269)
  • Rachel Sleeman, Zachary Kell: Could’ve, would’ve, should’ve: commercial fraud and the reasonably diligent claimant (272)

In Practice

  • Ying-Peng Chin: ESG: authorities’ potential enforcement action against companies (275)
  • Lu’ayy Minwer la-Rimawi: The UK’s second batch of Sukuk and the question of Shariah compliance: exclusion clauses v due diligence (276)
  • Ajay Malhotra, Tom Wyer: Cryptocurrency, proprietary injunctions, freezing orders, and trusts: the law is not cryptic (278)

Regulars

  • Case Analysis by 3 Verulam Buildings (280)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (284)
  • Market Movements by CMS (287)
  • Deals (289)
  • Legal Ease with LexisPSL (290)
  • International Briefing from Finland (291)