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Significant recent developments in the UK’s insolvency regime—a creditor’s perspective

Significant recent developments in the UK’s insolvency regime—a creditor’s perspective

The following Banking & Finance news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Significant recent developments in the UK’s insolvency regime—a creditor’s perspective

Barclays fights new suit over MBS accounts

Barclays fights new suit over MBS accounts

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Banking and Finance weekly highlights—23 September 2021

Banking and Finance weekly highlights—23 September 2021

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Deloitte partners escape £19m claim over Barclays swaps

Deloitte partners escape £19m claim over Barclays swaps

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Negative pledges

Negative pledges

Negative pledgesThis Practice Note examines:•why negative pledge clauses are used in commercial transactions •the consequences of breaching negative...

Floating charges

Floating charges

Floating chargesIP COMPLETION DAY: 11pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 marks the end of the Brexit transition/implementation period entered into following...

Bills of exchange—structure and parties

Bills of exchange—structure and parties

Bills of exchange—structure and partiesBills of exchange are negotiable instruments that represent an unconditional promise by one party to pay...

Loan Market Association (LMA) leveraged documentation

Loan Market Association (LMA) leveraged documentation

Loan Market Association (LMA) leveraged documentationDevelopment of the Loan Market Association (LMA) documentationThe project to develop the LMA...

Precedents

Reservation of rights letter: breach of bilateral facility agreement

[To be printed on the headed paper of the lender][insert date]To:[insert name and address of borrower]Dear [insert full name of borrower]1We refer to...
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19th May
Practice notes

European PIK loan facilities

European PIK loan facilitiesThis Practice Note provides information on European PIK loan facilities (PIK facilities). It discusses:•the key features...
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Produced in partnership with Susan Whitehead, Consultant at Hogan Lovells and Penny Angell, Partner at Hogan Lovells 19th May
Practice notes

Introduction to fund finance—capital call facilities

Introduction to fund finance—capital call facilitiesThis Practice Note discusses:•what is meant by capital call facilities, NAV, or asset backed...
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Produced in partnership with Leon Stephenson of Reed Smith 19th May
Practice notes

Increased costs

Increased costsThis Practice Note considers the costs that a lender will incur when providing funding to a borrower and the steps that it will take...
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19th May
Practice notes

Perfecting security

Perfecting securityIP COMPLETION DAY: 11pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 marks the end of the Brexit transition/implementation period entered into...
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19th May
Practice notes

Synthetic securitisations

Synthetic securitisationsWhat is a securitisation?Securitisation is a technique used to finance the ownership or sale of types of assets that would...
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19th May
Practice notes

Bilateral, syndicated and club arrangements

Bilateral, syndicated and club arrangementsOne of the features used to categorise loans is the number of lenders involved. A loan involving one lender...
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19th May
Practice notes

Pre-export finance—key terms in the facility agreement

Pre-export finance—key terms in the facility agreementPre-export finance (PXF) is an established structure used to provide finance to producers of...
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Produced in partnership with Dentons 19th May
Practice notes

Derivatives—ISDA documentation framework

Derivatives—ISDA documentation frameworkThe International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) is an association for participants in the...
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19th May
Practice notes

The facility agent

The facility agentThis Practice Note covers the duties and role of the facility agent (defined in the Loan Market Association (LMA) documentation as...
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19th May
Precedents

Guarantee and indemnity: cross guarantee from group companies—bilateral—all monies

This Deed of guarantee and indemnity is made on [insert day and month] 20[insert year]Parties1[Insert name of Guarantor], a company incorporated in...
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19th May
Practice notes

Transferring a loan by equitable assignment

Transferring a loan by equitable assignmentAssignment is a means by which a lender can transfer its interest in a loan to another lender.For an...
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19th May
Precedents

Facility letter (term loan): single company borrower—bilateral—unsecured

[TO BE PRINTED ON THE HEADED PAPER OF THE LENDER][insert name and address of borrower][insert date]Dear [insert full name of borrower]We offer to...
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19th May
Practice notes

Loan Market Association (LMA)—news on documentation [Archived]

Loan Market Association (LMA)—news on documentation [Archived]This Practice Note is an archive of news from the Loan Market Association (LMA) on LMA...
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19th May
Practice notes

Crystallisation of floating charges

Crystallisation of floating chargesThe key feature of a floating charge is that, until it crystallises, the chargor is entitled to deal with the...
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19th May
Precedents

Overdraft facility letter: single company borrower—bilateral—with or without a guarantee

[To be printed on the headed paper of the lender][insert date]To:[insert name and address of borrower]Dear [insert name of borrower],We are pleased to...
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19th May

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Nuisance and the rule in Rylands v Fletcher—common law liability for pollution

Nuisance and the rule in Rylands v Fletcher—common law liability for pollution

Private nuisancePrivate nuisance is an unlawful interference with a person's use or enjoyment of land or some right over or in connection with it. Interference must be unreasonable, and may be caused, eg by water, smoke, smell, fumes, gas, noise, heat or vibrations. Where the defendant has not

Highways, street works and statutory undertakers

Highways, street works and statutory undertakers

Highways, street works and statutory undertakersCoronavirus (COVID-19): This Practice Note contains guidance on matters that have temporarily been altered to assist in the management of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. For further information, see: Traffic Orders Procedure (Coronavirus)

Tort—the different types of tort

Tort—the different types of tort

Tort—the different types of tortThis Practice Note identifies the main torts (bar negligence and nuisance, which are covered elsewhere in our related content) and their key characteristics. Specifically:•trespass to land•trespass to the person•privacy/defamation•liability for animals•employers'

TCC—preparing for and attending a pre-trial review (PTR)

TCC—preparing for and attending a pre-trial review (PTR)

TCC—preparing for and attending a pre-trial review (PTR)Note:•this Practice Note gives specific guidance on matters proceeding in the Technology and Construction Court (TCC) under the provisions set out in CPR 60, CPR PD 60 and the TCC Guide. As these provisions are additional to the general