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 2024/7

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 2023/3

Spotlight

  • Simon CY Wong: Governance to keep net zero transitions on track (143)

Features

  • Raquel Agnello: What is the effect on a transaction if the Pensions Regulator brings successful proceedings under the Pension Schemes Act 2021? (148)
  • Lisa Lacob: When is a third party on notice of an agent’s lack of ostensible authority? (152)
  • Michael Brown, Thea Gausel: Synthetic risk, real issues: secondary transfers of credit risk instruments (154)
  • Nick Lister, Sian Perez, Andrew Denny, Nick Gomes: Credit defaults: practical tips when pressing the accelerator (156)
  • Sophia Hurst: Decrypting conflict of laws (158)
  • Edward Cumming, Tom Stewart Coats: Referring to legislation in finance documents: more than you bargained for? (162)
  • Andrew Fulton: Swaps litigation: the continuing search for certainty (164)
  • Moeiz Farban, Richard Firth: In context: the FMLC and its paper on good faith (168)
  • Leon Stephenson, Brendan Gallen: The impact of rated note feeder funds on subscription-line facilities (172)
  • Rita Hunter, Melanie Johnson: Sustainability related disclosures: EU SFDR vs UK SDR (174)
  • Nicholas Williams, Bronwen Jones, Thomas Webley: LMA Defaulting Lender provisions in today’s growing non-bank loan market (178)
  • Roger Laville: Enforcing judgments against pension assets: a developing juridiction (181)
  • Tim Lees, Michelle McGreal: COMing apart? Centre of Main Interests under Chapter 15 and the EUIR (184)

In Practice

  • Patrick Leftley, Becky Critchley, Tracy Dariane: The FCA’s new consumer duty could affect FCA regulated investors in asset backed financing of products offered to retail customers (187)
  • William Sutton: European commercial real estate CLOs: some thoughts on a developing asset class (189)
  • Fiona Henderson, Laura Collins, Alexis Alexander: Embedded finance: revenue-based financing and responsible lending (190)

Regulars

  • Competition Law Update by Kirkland & Ellis LLP (191)
  • Case Analysis by Hogan Lovells (193)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (196)
  • Market Movements by CMS (199)
  • Deals (201)
  • Legal Ease by Lexis PSL (202)
  • International Briefing from the Netherlands (203)