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William Wilson, Charlotte Ward: You can dip twice but can you only prove once? The insolvency implications of “double dip” transactions (440)
Charlotte Eborall: Atishoo, atishoo: we all fall down? Implications of business disposals upon cessation of business clauses (444)
Philip Wells, Ella Richards: Creative class composition: the hunt for the anchor class (447)
Lee Federman, Mamoun Shafi: Layering it on thick: the evolution of the super senior intercreditor agreement (450)
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)
Piers Reynolds, Laura Feldman: Financial crime reforms creating new risks and challenges for firms (459)
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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Adam Burk, Ben Saunders: Specialty finance to securitisation (485)
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)
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Sarah Worthington: Fixed and floating charges: still favouring absolutism over multi-factored nuance (583)
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Geoffrey Wynne, Jacqueline Cook: The Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023: the key to the future? (587)
Richard Boynton, Kon Asimacopoulos, Sean Lacey, Hannah Crawford, Kate Stephenson: Galapagos: proper construction of Distressed Disposal provisions in intercreditor agreement (590)
James Hall, William Golightly: The risks of attempting to rectify mistakes in security documents, without seeking a court order (594)
Daniel Winick, Mark Presso, Andrew Young, Heba Hazzaa: Wall Street-led secondary trading of private credit loans: considerations for stakeholders (599)
Hamish Patrick, Andrew Kinnes: Moveable transactions: Scotland v England: Round 1 – assigning receivables (602)
Piers Reynolds, Laura Feldman: New challenges for tackling Authorised Push Payment fraud (605)
Lee Federman, Tom Miller: Don’t put all your debt in one basket: debt incurrence flexibility in leveraged finance transactions (610)
Richard Hoyle: The fiduciary’s divestment dilemma: ESG and the age of climate change (612)
Rachel Tandy, Chris Haan: Collective stress or collective redress? Examining available mechanisms for securities litigation in England and Wales (616)
Tim Lees, Sarah Jane O’Leary, Kasia Lorenc: In sync across borders: embracing parallel processes for successful restructurings (620)
Thomas Wong: English law-governed Keepwell Deeds enforced by Hong Kong courts against PRC insolvent companies (623)
Chris Wallace: The Digital Securities Sandbox (627)
Giovanni Bandi, Yasser Nasser: The Cambridge Regulatory Genome Project: a must in a world of regulation technologies (629)
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Michael Leadbeater: Super senior facilities: a recap on key documentary terms (632)
Rebecca Oliver: Taking effective security over future acquired assets: the importance of contractual intention (634)
Matthew Cox. Lana Ahern, Gabby White: Can the consent of an obligor be taken at face value? (636)
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Book Review by Ross Cranston, LSE (638)
EU Update by Mauro Megliani, Catholic University of Milan (639)
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William Edwards: Decentralised Autonomuos Organisations: unincorporated companies by another name? (147)
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Daniel Winick, Andrew Young, Peter Dahlen, Thomas Critchley, Heba Hazzaa, Neil Cavanagh: Across the pond and back again: What direct lenders shold know before deploying historic dry powder (154)
Penny Angell, Dorothy Livingston: Reform of the law on deeds: options for the Law Commission (157)
Hin Liu: Digital Assets: the mystery of the „link” (161)
Timothy Cleary: Synthetic securitisation made simple: The EU STS Securitisation framework embraces synthetic securitisation (171)
Lodewijk van Setten, Charles Kerrigan: Digitised trading and settlement: Exchange 4.0 (176)
Piers Reynolds, Laura Feldman, Jack Helyar: The new FCA consumer duty: the interrelationship with regulatory and common law obligations (179)
Rumen Cholakov: Takeover Code Changes 2021: can lenders be forced to fund an illegal deal? (182)
Andrew Henderson: Prudential consolidation under the IFPR: Making sense of the ancillary services undertakings concept (184)
Chris Wallace, Charles Kerrigan: Something in the ether? The allure of digital bonds (186)
Anya Proops, Rupert Paines: Lloyd vs Google: the end of class action data privacy claim s or just the beginning? (189)
Richard Calnan: Interpreting stautes and contracts: what are the differences? Part 1 (192)
Spyridon V Bazinas: Secured finance law reform: the Joint Coordination Network (195)
In Practice
Jeremiah Wagner, Dan Marcus: Fund finance: the securisation question (198)
Charles Kerrigan: Crypto yield (199)
Hugh Evans, Sohail Ali: Section 32 Limitation Act: an evolving yet difficult route for claimants (202)
Carl Baker: The Bank of England’s first ever bail-in recognition (203)
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