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Law360: President Donald Trump signed an executive order on 10 February 2025 that puts a 'pause' on enforcement of the federal Foreign Corrupt...
The City of London Law Society's financial law committee has published a comprehensive note addressing the execution of legal assignments under...
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has introduced a new semi-annual report series analysing the global adoption of Distributed...
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has submitted a response to the European Securities and Markets Authority's (ESMA)...
Law360, Expert analysis: 2024 saw a number of developments in European restructurings that will shape how the market responds in 2025. Inga West,...
Introduction to public contracts procurementFORTHCOMING CHANGE: On 24 February 2025, the main provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 (PA 2023) come...
Brexit—UK takeover regime [Archived]This archived Practice Note looked at the impact of Brexit on the UK takeover regime. It has not been updated...
Structuring a takeover—offers vs schemes of arrangementThis Practice Note contrasts and compares the principal features of the two most commonly...
What are public to privates and what is the governing regulatory regime?This Practice Note explains what a public to private (P2P) transaction is and...
Events of defaultSTOP PRESS: The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA 2023) received Royal Assent on 26 October 2023. ECCTA 2023,...
Retained EU law—training materials [Archived]ARCHIVED: This Precedent has been archived and is not maintained.These training materials consist of...
Board minutes for the approval or ratification by a third party security provider of third party security for a loanCompany number: [insert company...
Board minutes for the approval of a company’s entry into loan and security documentsCOMPANY NUMBER: [insert company number][insert company name]...
Precedent signing and closing memorandum for a residential mortgage—backed securities transactionA Signing and Closing Memorandum is required to...
Long form property management agreementdate [date]parties1[name of Owner] [of OR incorporated in England and Wales (company registration number...
Bills of exchange—structure and partiesBills of exchange are negotiable instruments that represent an unconditional promise by one party to pay...
Term Loan B facilitiesThis Practice Note discusses Term Loan B (TLB) facilities which frequently appear as a tranche of senior facilities in...
Invoice discounting and factoringThe popularity of financing business through the invoice discounting and factoring of receivables has grown...
Common financial covenantsThis Practice Note explains certain common financial covenants used in commercial finance transactions including:•minimum...
Offtake contracts—key issues for project finance lendersMost projects are underpinned by a complex web of contractual relationships between all the...
Overdrafts, term loans and revolving credit facilitiesThis Practice Note explains the features of three common types of loan facility:•overdrafts•term...
Crystallisation of floating chargesThe key feature of a floating charge is that, until it crystallises, the chargor is entitled to deal with the...
Promissory notes—structure and partiesA promissory note is a type of bill of exchange (for more information, see Practice Note: Bills of...
Bilateral, syndicated and club arrangementsOne of the features used to categorise loans is the number of lenders involved. A loan involving one lender...
An introduction to repo and the Global Master Repurchase Agreement (GMRA)Coronavirus (COVID-19): This Practice Note contains information on subjects...
Bridge to bond facilitiesWhat are they?A bridge to bond facility is a type of acquisition financing where the buyer requires the certainty of a fully...
Floating charges—advantages and disadvantagesSummary of advantages and disadvantages of the floating chargeThis Practice Note discusses the advantages...
Key features of debenturesDebentures are used in many types of financing where it is desirable to take security over all of the assets of a particular...
Financial derivatives—nettingNettingnetting is a contractual arrangement between two parties. Essentially, it means that the parties have agreed that,...
Assignments by way of securityAssignments by way of security can take different forms and it is important to understand how they are created and their...
Guarantor rights and how to defer them in guarantee documentation—no competition clausesGuarantees are a contractual arrangement where one party (the...
Sources of Shari'ahIntroductionShari'ah (also Sharia, Shariah or Shari’a) (literally, in Arabic, 'the path towards the watering place') or Islamic law...
An accordion, or incremental debt feature, refers to a mechanism in the facilities agreement under which, provided certain conditions are met such as pro forma compliance with a leverage test, lenders under the facilities agreement who wish to do so can lend additional debt. The terms of the additional debt will typically be documented in an increase notice. An accordion or incremental debt flexibility should be distinguished from structural adjustment which typically requires the majority consent of the syndicate. Borrowing under the incremental facility mechanism only requires consent from participating lenders (provided the conditions set out in the facilities agreement are met).
A security collateralised by a pool of specified cashflow generating assets.
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, an association of industrialised economies which provides inter alia economic research and policy recommendations for its members