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UK joins US in implementing a global anti-corruption sanctions regime

UK joins US in implementing a global anti-corruption sanctions regime

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Banking and Finance weekly highlights—6 May 2021

Banking and Finance weekly highlights—6 May 2021

The following Banking & Finance news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Banking and Finance weekly highlights—6 May 2021

Analysing the FCA’s proposed changes to the Listing Rules for special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs)

Analysing the FCA’s proposed changes to the Listing Rules for special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs)

The following Banking & Finance news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Analysing the FCA’s proposed changes to the Listing Rules for special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs)

Banking & Finance—April 2021 case round-up

Banking & Finance—April 2021 case round-up

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Taking security over uncertificated shares held in CREST

Taking security over uncertificated shares held in CREST

Shares are commonly offered as security for a loan in commercial lending transactions.Practice Note: Taking security over shares explains how to take...

Guide to completing the ISDA Schedule

Guide to completing the ISDA Schedule

Coronavirus (COVID-19): This Practice Note contains information on subjects potentially impacted by the government and regulators' responses to the...

Project finance—key finance documents

Project finance—key finance documents

Documents for a typical project finance transaction can be split into three broad categories:•finance documents—the finance documents govern the debt...

Borrowing base facilities—structure, key terms and risks

Borrowing base facilities—structure, key terms and risks

What is a borrowing base facility?Borrowing base facilities ('BB Facilities') are a type of trade finance. They are working capital credit facilities...

Practice notes

Floating charges—advantages and disadvantages

Summary of advantages and disadvantages of the floating chargeThis Practice Note discusses the advantages and disadvantages of taking a floating as...
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9th Nov
Practice notes

Instructing and managing local counsel

Given the cross-border nature of many banking transactions, it is common for the principal legal advisors for lenders and borrowers to need to...
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9th Nov
Practice notes

Key issues in loan transfers

There are times when a lender might want to get back some of the money it has lent to a borrower before the borrower is due to repay it.If the...
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9th Nov
Practice notes

Transferring a loan by legal assignment

Assignment is a means by which a lender can transfer its interest in a loan to another lender.For an overview of the reasons why a lender might...
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9th Nov
Practice notes

Transferring a loan by sub-participation

Sub-participation is a means by which a lender can transfer its risk in a loan to another lender. For an overview of the reasons why a lender might...
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9th Nov
Practice notes

Hot topics for Banking & Finance lawyers

This Practice Note lists hot topics (with links to the appropriate materials) that may be of interest to Banking & Finance lawyers. It is updated...
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9th Nov
Practice notes

Third party security

In many commercial finance transactions, lenders expect to be given some form of credit support to increase their confidence in being able to recover...
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9th Nov
Practice notes

Crystallisation of floating charges

The key feature of a floating charge is that, until it crystallises, the chargor is entitled to deal with the charged assets in the normal course of...
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9th Nov
Practice notes

The facility agent

BREXIT: As of 31 January 2020, the UK is no longer an EU Member State, but has entered an implementation period during which it continues to be...
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9th Nov
Practice notes

Drafting and negotiating the facility agreement

This Practice Note covers the typical structure of facility agreements and the key terms and provisions that will be included. It examines the process...
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9th Nov
Practice notes

ISDA definitions

The vast majority of derivative transactions are documented by standard documentation developed and published by the International Swaps and...
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9th Nov
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Precedents

Real property mortgage: single company chargor—bilateral—specific monies

This Deed is made on [insert day and month] 20[insert year]Parties1[Insert name of Chargor], a company incorporated in England and Wales with...
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9th Nov
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Foreign exchange (FX) derivatives

BREXIT: As of 31 January 2020, the UK is no longer an EU Member State, but has entered an implementation period during which it continues to be...
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9th Nov
Practice notes

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

This Practice Note is an archive of news from the Loan Market Association (LMA) on LMA documentation and related topics. It covers LMA updates from...
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9th Nov
Practice notes

Term Loan B facilities

This Practice Note discusses Term Loan B (TLB) facilities which frequently appear as a tranche of senior facilities in syndicated loans in leveraged...
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Practice notes

Sources of Shari'ah

IntroductionShari'ah (also Sharia, Shariah or Shari’a) (literally, in Arabic, 'the path towards the watering place') or Islamic law is the legal...
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9th Nov

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Written basis of plea and Newton hearings

Written basis of plea and Newton hearings

When defendants are guilty, they have a choice to plead guilty or to put the prosecution to proof. When they plead guilty they may benefit from a reduction in their sentence as a result, see Practice Note: Credit for guilty plea. However, the Sentencing Council's overarching guidelines on reduction

Voluntary manslaughter

Voluntary manslaughter

Voluntary manslaughterVoluntary manslaughter consists of those killings which would be murder (because the accused has the relevant mental element for murder) but which are reduced to manslaughter because of one of the three special defences (loss of control, diminished responsibility or suicide

Money laundering offences—tipping off and prejudicing an investigation

Money laundering offences—tipping off and prejudicing an investigation

Tipping off and prejudicing an investigationIt would undermine the benefit to the authorities if, a suspicious activity report (SAR) having been made, the alleged offender were to be made aware of the interest in their activities so that they could take steps to cover up their misdeeds or disappear.

Negative pledges

Negative pledges

This Practice Note examines:•why negative pledge clauses are used in commercial transactions •the consequences of breaching negative pledge provisions•how negative pledges are viewed in the context of security and quasi-security, and•key considerations when drafting a negative pledge clauseWhere