Financial Law

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Author: Joanna Benjamin
Hardcover: 750 pages
Publisher: OUP Oxford (27 Dec 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0199282935
ISBN-13: 978-0199282937
Product Dimensions: 24.8 x 17.2 x 4.4 cm

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The traditional financial market sectors of insurance, commercial banking, derivatives, capital markets and asset management are converging in practice, but their analysis is still largely sector-based. This book offers a cross-sectoral, functional approach. It highlights anomalies in the different legal treatment of the respective sectors (suggesting law reform to sum, and arbitrage opportunities to others) and identifies key trends. This book offers an integrated approach to financial law which is both useful and timely, as the markets have been converging for over two decades.

Functions traditionally performed in one sector are now undertaken in another, and financial techniques are emerging which combine characteristics of different traditional transaction types. Investment banks increasingly offer new structured products in a range of alternative legal “wrappers”. Securitisation, particularly in association with credit derivatives, continues to be a dominant force, drawing ever more categories of business into the capital markets.

Innovations such as these have been associated with a high level of legal risk, and the cross-sectoral freedoms offered by deregulation have not been fully exploited. This book presents financial law as a discrete branch of law, to be considered in the round; it will therefore provide the practitioner, scholar or regulator with a complete, unfragmented view of the subject.

Law of International Insolvencies and Debt Restructuring

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Author: James Silkenat, Charles Schmerler
Hardcover: 687 pages
Publisher: Oceana TM (13 Jul 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0379215349
ISBN-13: 978-0379215342
Product Dimensions: 25.7 x 18.3 x 4.6 cm

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During the past several years, there has been an unprecedented number of insolvencies and restructuring of multinational corporations – both inside and outside of traditional bankruptcy proceedings. Law of International Insolvencies and Debt Restructuring is the first text to offer insight into the newly created doctrines of law and procedure that have resulted from these events.

Leading attorneys and investment bankers address developments in bankruptcy and insolvency laws in the countries that have become the focal points for legal proceedings, including the United States, Mexico, England, Spain, Italy, Argentina, Brazil, China, France, South Africa, and Canada. Essential topics in the law of international restructuring and insolvency are also explored, including treaties and cooperation agreements, methods of restructuring debt, sovereign debt litigation, and intereditor relationships.