Development of the Loan Market Association (LMA) documentationThe project to develop the LMA investment grade documents began in 1998 as a response to...
This Practice Note explains the features of three common types of loan facility:•overdrafts•term loans, and•revolving credit facilities (RCFs)It also...
Assignments by way of security can take different forms and it is important to understand how they are created and their effect. Security over choses...
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...
This Practice Note considers the costs that a lender operating in the interbank market will incur when providing funding to a borrower and the steps...
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...
Documents for a typical project finance transaction can be split into three broad categories:•finance documents—the finance documents govern the debt...
Shares are commonly offered as security for a loan in commercial lending transactions.Practice Note: Taking security over shares explains how to take...
Use of the Annex with ISDA Master Agreement and Schedule—the obligation to post collateralBy comparison to the English law Credit Support Annex (CSA)...
BREXIT: 11pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 (‘IP completion day’) marked the end of the Brexit transition/implementation period entered into following the...