A Lending transaction is simply the making of a loan of money by a lender to a borrower. This can range from a small overdraft from a bank to a customer to secured, syndicated facilities made to make an acquisition of a multi-national group.
This Practice Note provides an introductory guide to lending transactions. It discusses the different types of loan transaction and provides an overview of the structure of a typical loan transaction, before discussing the documentation involved in loan transactions and security, quasi-security and intercreditor issues. It outlines some key legal issues that can arise on lending transactions before providing an overview of specialist finance transactions, including project finance, real estate finance, Acquisition finance and asset finance.
This Practice Note provides an introduction to loan transactions in a commercial context. It does not cover consumer lending.
Loan transaction toolkit
Our Loan transaction toolkit is an introductory resource for junior lawyers and provides an overview of each phase of a loan transaction and the tasks that lawyers are required to complete as part of each phase. The
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