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)