This Practice Note provides an introduction to intercreditor agreements and their key provisions. This Practice Note:•explains the purpose of having...
Development of the Loan Market Association (LMA) documentationThe project to develop the LMA investment grade documents began in 1998 as a response to...
Subordination is a way of changing the priority of claims against a debtor so that one creditor or group of creditors (the junior creditor(s)) agree...
Coronavirus (COVID-19): The ICC has issued a guidance paper on the impact of COVID-19 on trade finance transactions issued subject to ICC rules. For...
Legal opinions are one of the key documentary conditions precedent in loan transactions. The legal opinion is a letter which sets out opinions as to...
This Practice Note on rules on interpreting contracts (agreements) (also known as construing or the construction of contracts and contractual terms)...
What are contractual terms?The terms of a contract define the existence and scope of the parties’ respective rights and obligations to one another.A...
This Practice Note considers the court’s approach when there is dispute as to which party’s terms and conditions govern their contract in a ‘battle of...
This Practice Note sets out certain key cases and associated relevant content in relation to construction of finance documents. The cases are divided...
As discussed in the article ‘Globalisation of the European loan markets: interpretative challenges and pitfalls’: (2017) 3 JIBFL 143 at [145]:‘All or...
As explained in Practice Note: Applicable law:'The applicable law is the law that governs a dispute between the parties. Generally, parties have the...