Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2026/4

Spotlight

  • Julia Lu, Ru-Woei Foong: Minority creditors beware: the LME may not be a restructuring under European corporate CDS (219)

Features

  • Jonathan Haines: Can an English limited partnership create a floating charge? (223)
  • Paul MacMahon: The effect of restrictions on assignment on attempts to grant charges (227)
  • Helen Pugh: “Not your key, not your coin”: the private key and ownership (230)
  • Jason Ewart, Thomas McGowan: Control as economics: the new preferred equity playbook (232)
  • Alexandra Kosta-Foti: Primary and secondary rights in the Quincecare litigation arena: another dimension of the debt versus damages debate (235)
  • Lee Federman, Danté Adams: The lender’s reset right: change of control in modern exits (239)
  • Nigel Jones, Thomas Bell: Succumbing to wrongful payment demands: what can borrowers do? (242)
  • Nicholas U Jin, William Cooke: Tracing through the Ether: legal and technical barriers to cryptoasset recovery (245)
  • Kate Stephenson, Mallika Abidi: When shareholders sue: a comparative view of the ranking of shareholder claims in insolvency (250)
  • Lisa Lee Lewis, Sam Krips: Overseas firms carrying out cryptoasset business in the UK: what you need to know (254)
  • Teen Jui Chow, Alex Forzani: Providence and party intention: the Supreme Court on industry-wide standard forms (258)
  • Dominic Gregory: Sustainable finance: transparency and its misapprehension (262)
  • Georgios Pantelias: The EU’s emerging accountability regime: borrowing the SMCR without its foundations (265)

In Practice

  • Ana Biloglav, Paola Bahari: NAV facilities in 2026: structuring, governance and market practice considerations for sponsors (269)
  • Robert Brittain: Redressing the balance in competition class actions (272)
  • Aditi Sanyal, Jennifer Hanna: A new era in the UAE: the significance of removing gambling provisions under the 2025 Civil Code (273)
  • Cristiano Borgogna: Stablecoins: what could hinder their rise? (274)

Regulars

  • Book Review by Ross Cranston (276)
  • Case Analysis by 3 Verulam Buildings (277)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (281)
  • Market Movements by CMS (285)
  • Deals (287)
  • Legal Ease by Lexis+® UK (288)
  • International Briefing from Canada (290)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2025/4

Spotlight

  • Duncan Sheehan: Cryptoassets are choses in action (231)

Features

  • Stephen M Blank, Ken Rothenberg, Phillip D Taylor: Understanding co-operation agreements: current boom, fundamental issues and latest trends (234)
  • Nik Yeo: Cryptoassets as loan security (237)
  • Simon Clarke, Nihar Lovell, Catherine Bagge: Hedging: where is the dividing line? (242)
  • Nick Cusack, Susan Whitehead, Alistair Handy: In sickness and in health: a review of transfer provisions in European leveraged loan agreements (244)
  • Andrew Kinnes, Hamish Patrick: Scotland’s new statutory pledge: taking security over shares (247)
  • Qalid Mohamed, Mhairi Caminiti: Non-bank financial intermediaries (NBFIs): leverage, liquidity and interconnectedness (251)
  • Giles Allison, Haafiz Suleman, Laura Hasson, Jack Robinson, Seraphina Monson: The expanding nature of undervalue transactions: recent cases and practical issues (255)
  • Cameron Roper, Paul Tannenbaum: Navigating the impact of portfolio company distress events under NAV facilities (259)
  • Faizal Khan, Teha Gausel: Transfer restrictions in the age of synthetic credit risk transfer: time for a re-assessment? (261)
  • Stephen Tobin: Considerations for lenders to infrastructure assets (263)
  • Andrew McClurg: Debt financing transactions in Northern Ireland: what practitioners need to know (265)
  • David Shone, Rufus Sachdev-Wood: Bank Resolution (Recapitalisation) Bill: good policy, bad politics? (268)
  • Callum Reid-Hutchings: Freezing the status quo: a critical analysis of 2024’s watershed moments in freezing injunction jurisprudence (270)

In Practice

  • Robert Brittain: Wirral v Indivior: a setback for securities law class actions (273)
  • Tirsh O’ Donnell, Mahrnaz AFshar, India Peterson: A defining moment for US digital asset policy (274)
  • Stuart Neely, Lise Smit: Business and human rights developments in the financial sector (275)

Regulars

  • Case Analysis by 3 Verulam Buildings (276)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (280)
  • Market Movements by CMS (284)
  • Deals (286)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis+® UK (287)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2024/10

Spotlight

  • Trevor Clark: Navigating conflicts of interest in European restructurings (647)

Feature

  • Alexia Knight, Sarah Parker: Alternate realities: transactional and economic reality in APP fraud and unjust enrichment (651)
  • James Palmer: Market abuse and restitution orders: challenges for FCA policy (655)
  • Jonathan Haines: Security financial collateral arrangements and the crystallisation of floating charges (660)
  • Priyanka Usmani, William Swan, Gabby White: How much is a word worth? (662)
  • Tom Leary: Sanctions defences after Celestial Aviation: when does s 44 of SAMLA 2018 help? (665)
  • Laura Prosperetti, Ferdisha Snagg, Bernardo Massella, Ducci Teri, Andreas Wildner, Ludovico Scasselati: Sec v Ripple and MiCAR: the classification of cryptoassets as securities (667)
  • Gareth Eagles, Emma Foster, Sylvana Lee, David Ridley: Two continents separated by a common language? Harmonising US and European loans (671)
  • Deborah Zandstra, James Kelton: A new class of debt instruments: carbon credit linked bonds (676)
  • Bryony Widdup, Emily Julier, Leon Yap: Blended finance: funding sustainable development with public and private funding (679)
  • Alex Potts: Potential litigation risk in private credit and fund finance: disclosure, consent and valuation (683)
  • Emeric Prévost: The law applicable to legal tender of the digital euro: the end of the conundrum? (685)
  • Jean-François Adelle: Secured claims in French restructurings: lessons from the 2021 reforms and recent large case precedents (689)

In Practice

  • Sara Evans, Charlotte Chopping: Can the buyside rely on ESG ratings and data without regulatory risk? (693)
  • Abdullah A Alsaeed, Khaled Alhuneidi, Dean Naumowicz, Yana Nastyushenko: The final piece of the G20 netting puzzle (694)
  • Robert Brittain: Retained EU Law: the implication of keeping s 6 dormant (696)

Regulars

  • Book Review by Julian Craughan of Hogan Lovells (697)
  • Competition Law Update by Matthew Sicnlair-Thomson, Loukia Kopitsa, Lauren Murray of Kirkland & Ellis LLP (698)
  • Case Analysis by 3 Verulam Buildings and a future pupil at Temple Chambers, Hong Kong (700)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright
  • Market Movements by CMS (709)
  • Deals (711)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis+® UK (712)