Finance Law

For the student who wishes to understand law as it is practised in a modern financial context, Finance Law offers the only up-to-date university-level textbook which explains legal principles as they are applied in today’s advanced financial transactions.

Essential for any student or researcher seeking an introduction to this complex and fast-moving world, this text:

• is based on the author’s extensive teaching experience in finance law

• covers the modern form of credit facilities agreements, security, syndication, securities and securitization, derivatives, and payment and clearing systems

• is packed with interesting case studies, including the Mozambique Tuna Bond Scandal, the takeover of Manchester Utd plc, and the securitization of student loans

• motivates study with theoretical discussions and historical contextualisation

• explains key transaction structures, such as investment grade lending to groups, intercreditor agreements, interest rate swaps, and multilateral payment systems

• grants insight into key legal principles and structuring applicable to trillion dollar deals across the globe

• is written by a structured finance practitioner and academic with extensive post-qualification experience of advising lenders, corporate borrowers and sovereigns on international finance.

Designed for final-year undergraduates and LLM students, Finance Law is not only the perfect accompaniment to any finance module, but can support any advanced programme on insolvency law, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), corporate governance, international economic law and more.