Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2024/8

Spotlight

  • Leonard Ng: Private credit: exploring systemic risk concerns and regulatory architecture (507)

Features

  • Hodge Malek, Cleon Catsambis: Fixed rate loans: tough break (costs) for borrowers (510)
  • Scott Ralston: Lex situs and its discontents: English security over foreign assets (514)
  • Isabel Neelands, Anand Kannappan, Rebecca Qian: Debt financing of AI companies: identifying “AI assets” for the security net (517)
  • Vasanti Selvaratnam, Paul Schwartfeger, Kaity Crowe: (Un)reasonable endeavours: force majeure clauses and offers of non-contractual performance (521)
  • David Turner, Conor Ewing: Assignment or charge over warranty and indemnity insurance policies as security? (525)
  • Sarah-Jane Denton, Simon Witney: The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: impact on financial services businesses (528)
  • Taraq Zafar Rasheed, Bogomil Kukovski: Mandatory collateralisation of hedging transactions under senior secured facilities (531)
  • Lee Federman, Adam Wolinsky: IOSCO Leveraged Loans and Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs) Good Practices for Consideration: how will this impact leveraged loan documentation? (534)
  • Karl Clowry, Seán McGuinness: Tacking: what further advances since 2002? (537)
  • Lucy Williams, Linda El-Halabi: Leading the charge (pun intended): international security transactions in the Middle East (542)
  • Roger Gherson, Valeriya Grebenkova, Cong Gao: Financial sanctions and investment treaty arbitration (545)
  • David Siesage: Judicial review in the financial services sector: a question of risk and reward (548)
  • Kit Smith: Anti-suit relief: Bourlakova and Magomedov and the non-contractual jurisdiction (551)
  • Danny Busch, Matthias Lehmann: Turn the Unfair Terms Directive into a Regulation! (554)

In Practice

  • Charles Malpass, Roxanne Paes: Lending transactions: putting the power in powers of attorney (558)
  • Charles Kerrigan, Claire Whittaker: Retrieval augmented generation in LLMs: AI for lawyers (560)
  • Hywel Jenkins, Jack Moore, Cat Dankos: Beware of regulators bearing gifts (562)
  • Jeremy Sher, Benjamin Fellows, Leontia McArdle: SRA warning on the conduct of mass financial mis-selling claims: what will be the impact on motor finance claims? (564)

Regulars

  • Case Analysis by One Essex Court and 4 Pump Court (565)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (570)
  • Market Movements by CMS (574)
  • Deals (576)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2022/7

Spotlight

  • Richard Blakeley: Frozen Russian funds: can the courts let it go? (443)

Features

  • Charlotte Eborall: Waiving goodbye to termination rights in default scenario negotiations (446)
  • Matthey McGhee: Orthodoxy prevails? How receiving banks avoid liability for their customers’ frauds (450)
  • Alex Haines: Licence to Quill: legal services licences following the recent wave of Russian sanctions (453)
  • Hanif Virji: Pre-hedging versus front-running: six of one, and half a dozen of the other? (455)
  • Dionne Brown, Tibor Korman: Anything but equity! Structuring considerations for a debt for equity swap (4579
  • Karl Clowry: Loan defaults: untimely remedies and potential hangovers in credit agreements (461)
  • Scott Ralston: Cryptoassets, consumers and foreign arbitration (464)
  • Katherine Ratcliffe: The classification of interest rate swaps as contingent liability cases (468)
  • Tom Marshall: Blockchain interoperability: connecting decentralised infrastructure for traditional finance (470)
  • Nik Yeo: Tiptoe through the tulips: fiduciary and common law duties of care in cryptocurrency (474)
  • Daniel Benedyk: Extending the cloak: individual immunity for foreign officials (477)
  • Nora Beausang: Brass in pocket: the developing benchmark for establishing “consumer” status (479)
  • Isabel Aguilar Alonso: Protection of securities under custody in Spain (484)

In Practice

  • Matthew Ayre, Jason Larkins: Recurring revenue-based deals (487)
  • Shane McDonald, Oliver Trotman, Chiagozie Ezennia: Recent trends in leveraged financing: the ever more borrower friendly market (489)
  • Lu’ayy Minwer Al-Rimawi: The Bank of England’s loose understanding of Islamic financial law (490)

Regulars

  • ESG Update by Oriol Espar and César Herrero (494)
  • Case Analysis by 3 Verulam Buildings (498)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (501)
  • Market Movements by CMS (504)
  • Deals (506)
  • Legal Ease with LexisPSL (508)

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)