Bankers' Law (Publishers, Guthrum House Ltd)

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Examples of Articles in Bankers' Law

The Banking Crisis - Practical and Legal Implications

• Tim Strong and Andrew Forsyth (Barlow Lyde & Gilbert LLP) Toxic Shock Horrors? Litigation exposures faced by UK banks in the aftermath of the US subprime crisis.
• Tim Strong and Ivan Wilkinson (Barlow Lyde & Gilbert LLP) JP Morgan Chase v Springwell Navigation: Closing Door on Claims by Investors?
• Tim Strong and Rowena Lewis Swaps and Capacity: New Recession Similar Challenges to Liability
• Martin Ebner and Sascha Hodl (Schoenherr) First Experiences with the Austrian Bail-Out Regime.
• Antonio Coletti and Andrea Novarese (Latham & Watkins) Recapitalisation Plan for Italian Banks
• Ian Paterson and Jo Ottaway (Mallesons Stephen Jaques Melbourne) Financial claims scheme in Australia.
• New Swiss Disclosure Rules
• Professor George Walker (Queen Mary, University of London) - Northern Rock, and UK Financial Crisis -Residual Policy Debate and Response.
• Olivier Assant, Raphaele Courtier and Olivier Saba (Bredin Prat, Paris) - La Crise - The French response.
• Benoit Feron and Marie-Laure De Leener (NautaDutilh, Belgium) - EU Financial Regulation and the Financial Crisis: an update.
• Sjanine Timmermans (De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek) - Aid to banks during the credit crisis in the Netherlands
• Shuangge Wen (University of Liverpool) and Jingchen Zhao (Salford University) - Revisiting the Scope of a Scheme of Arrangement - Insights derived from Lehman
• Elke Janssens (NautaDutilh) - New European system of financial regulation to prevent future financial crises.

Regulation

• Chris Brennan (Barlow Lyde & Gilbert LLP) - The Future of UK Regulation
• Nigel Clayton (City University) - Equator Principles
• Professor George Walker (Queen Mary, University of London) - Northern Rock Falls
• Professor George Walker (Queen Mary, University of London) - Three Rivers v. The Bank of England
• Rosemary Jay (Pinsent Masons) - Data Protection and Binding Corporate Rules
• Tim Pope and Thomas Webb (Burges Salmon LLP) - Revolution in the Regulation of Retail Banking (FSA's implementation of the new Banking and Payment Services Conduct regime).
• Professor Graham Roberts The demise of the Banking Codes and (almost) the end of self-regulation in retail banking.

Securitisation

• Marke Raines and Fanny Lau - UK Securitisation
• Yin Xiao Bei (China Banking Regulatory Commission, Beijing) - Securitisation of Bank Loans in China
• Landmark Securitisation Decision: Citibank v MBIA

Documentation

• Christopher Czarnocki and Adam Sanitt (Gide Loyrette Nouel) - Market Disruption Clauses
• Christopher Czarnocki and Ricky Champion (Gide Loyrett Nouel) - Syndicated Lending Terms - A Necessary Shift in Power? (A look at the impact of current market conditions on the terms in syndicated loan documentation.)
• Paul Friedman and Nicola Clavarino (Clyde & Co) - MAC Clauses
• Richard Swallow and Richard Hornshaw (Slaughter and May) - Jurisdiction Clauses in Loan Agreements
• Graham Roberts (Queen Mary, University of London) - The impact of modern contract law on banks' contractual documentation
• Nicola Clavarino (Clyde & Co) - Market Practice in Banking Litigation
• Dr Michael Josenhans (Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP) - Recent Legal Developments in the US Syndicated Loan Market

Restructuring and Insolvency

• Robin Henry (Simmons & Simmons) - Developments in cross-border insolvency law
• Neil Golding (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer) - The End of the HIH Saga
• Fernando Quicios (Perez-Llorca, Madrid) - Credit Institutions and Spanish Insolvency Regulations
• Andrea Novarese (Latham & Watkins, Milan) - Italian Bankruptcy Law: reform and pre-bankruptcy agreement procedures
• Dan Lavender, Simon Beale and Jonathan Pratt (Macfarlanes) - Company Administrations
• Lachlan Edwards (Goldman Sachs) - Restructuring in the Modern World
• Iain Mackie and Jonathan Pratt (Macfarlanes LLP)- Cukorova Finance and the Financial Collateral Arrangements (No 2) Regulations).
• Michael Doran and Manan Singh (Gide Loyrette Nouel LLP) - Difficult Times for Junior Creditors: IMO Car Wash and other recent developments.
• Barry Donnelly and Jonathan Pratt (Macfarlanes LLP) - Issues arising from the collapse of Kaupthing, Singer and Friedlander.
• Simon Beale (Macfarlanes LLP) - Appointing out-of-court administrators to an overseas entity - Kaupthing litigation.
• Craig Montgomery (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP) - English scheme jurisdiction: is there a sufficient connection?
• Andrea Novarese and Paolo Donati (Latham & Watkins, Milan) Italian Bankruptcy Law: another step in restructuring regulations
• Chris Czarnocki and Alice Morrison (White & Case) BNY Corporate Trustee v Eurosail-UK

Guarantees

• Roger Laville (Addleshaw Goddard) - standard form guarantees
• Steven Gee QC and Mary Gibbons (Stone Chambers) - Bank Demand Guarantees and the fraud exception
• Roger Jones, and Richard Gwynne (Stephenson Harwood) - Uniform Rules for Demand Guarantees: URDG 758

Consumer

• Graham Roberts (Queen Mary, University of London) - OFT v Lloyds TSB Bank (credit card industry)
• Graham Roberts - Fraudsters, Phishers, Hackers and Scammers: Who Pays the Price? (Are banks or their customers legally liable to pay for plastic card and internet bank account fraud?)
• Joanne Wright (Begbies Traynor) - Consumer Credit Act 2006 and changing lending practices.

International Finance

• Tariq Rasheed (Linklaters) - Contingent Credit Default Swaps
• Fiona Gulliford (Gide Loyrette Nouel, Paris) - Project Finance: Bonds versus Loans
• Rashid Bahar (Bar & Karrer) - Swiss disclosure rules for derivative transactions
• Hendrik Haag (Hengeler Mueller) - The Ghost of Hammersmith and Fulham returns
• Andrew McClean (Slaughter and May) and Martin Thorneycroft (Morgan Stanley) on leveraged finance
• Rob van den Sigtenhorst (De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek) - New regulations on covered bonds in the Netherlands
• Stephanie Comtesse and Eric Stupp (Bar & Karrer) - Switzerland: the new Federal Act on Collective Investment Schemes

Letters of Credit

• UCP 600 - Report on ICC Banking Conference
• Roger Jones - UCP 600 - Challenges Ahead
• Richard Gwynne (Stephenson Harwood) - Fortis Bank v Indian Overseas Bank, and Fortis Bank v Indian Overseas Bank - further developments

International

• Matthew Swan (Ogier) - Financial Assistance in Jersey; Jersey Cell Companies; the New Security Interests (Jersey) Law
• Matthew Swan and Robin Smith (Ogier) - Security in BVI, Cayman Islands, Jersey and Guernsey: the Atlantic Divide
• Max Ganado (Ganado & Associates) - developments in Maltese banking law
• Shinsuke Kaneko (Morrison & Foerster LLP) - Overview of Amendments to the Money Lending Business Act, the Interest Rate Restriction Act and the Contributions, Deposits and Interest Rate Regulation Act of Japan.
• Katsuhiko Fujihira and Shinsuke Kaneko (Morrison & Foerster LLP) Amendment of Commodity Exchange Act in Japan
• Javier Fernandez Cuenca and Marta Moreno de Alboran (Perez-Llorca) - Tax-free depreciation scheme.
• Peter Isler and Patrik Peyer (Niederer Kraft & Frey) The Future of Private Banking in Switzerland - an Outlook from a Legal Perspective

General

• Professor Keith Stanton (University of Bristol) - Recouping syndicate members' losses: a cautionary tale. (Helmsley Acceptances Ltd v. Lambert Smith Hampton.)