Description
This module focuses on the major international debt finance transactions entered into by investment banks, corporate borrowers and, increasingly, multi strategy private equity funds and other alternate private credit providers, often referred to as “the ‘shadow banking’ sector”, who play an active role in the critically important international debt capital markets developed in London, New York and Tokyo and, more recently, in Hong Kong, Singapore and Frankfurt. It is designed to provide an in depth understanding of the legal structures used in these transactions and the legal and regulatory issues that arise. The international debt finance transactions focused upon include: Bi-lateral and Syndicated Loans (including ‘investment grade’ and ‘leveraged’ loans) entered into in the Primary and Secondary Loan Markets; Bond Issues; Securitisation Transactions; Project Finance Transactions; and Derivative Transactions (primarily swaps).
The module convenor is an internationally recognised authority in international debt finance who has both practiced in the area, as a partner and global practice leader at one of the world’s largest international law firms, and taught the subject matter covered by the module to academics and practitioners for many years. He has been consistently recognised as a top tier lawyer by the leading legal directories, including Chambers (UK and international) who also included him in their inaugural Chambers 100, which ranked the top 100 business lawyers in the UK, where he was listed as one of the top five capital markets lawyers. He has worked on many landmark and ground breaking international finance transactions in numerous jurisdictions Teaching on this module is international in outlook and focusses on current market practice whilst at the same time providing high levels of academic rigor and critical analysis. Teaching will be based on market standard documentation currently used in the international debt finance markets and those who study this module will become very familiar with the content and legal issues arising from the use of such documents.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.