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Global Financial Crisis: Navigating and Understanding the Legal and Regulatory Aspects is a new major work addressing many of the legal issues related to the crisis that has rocked the international financial system and affected the whole range of financial participants, transactions and instruments.
Written by leading practitioners and renowned academics, this new title provides an in-depth analysis of aspects of the intersection between the financial crisis and the law and practice of selected key jurisdictions, including Argentina, Bermuda, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Germany, Iceland, India, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom and United States.
In particular, the book examines:
•the main cases of financial restructuring arising from the crisis, including Lehman Brothers, AIG and the situation in Iceland;
•the banking laws and regulations enacted to deal with the financial system and bank rescues;
•the law and practice of the brokerage business in the context of the crisis;
•the legal challenges affecting offshore investment funds;
•the legal aspects of corporate and sovereign default and restructurings; and
•litigation arising from the crisis involving governments, bank shareholders, officers and managers, depositors and creditors, investment fund managers and investors, corporations, sovereigns and their bondholders.
This authoritative title provides legal practitioners, academics, financial agents, financial institution officers, investment analysts and managers, investors and officials of regulatory agencies with the information they need to navigate their way through the challenges arising from one of the most significant financial crises in recent history.
Price: £148.00
Pages: 509
Publisher: Globe Law and Business
Imprint: Globe Law and Business
Publication Date:
01 September 2009
Trim Size: 9.50 X 6.25 in
ISBN: 9781905783328
Format: Hardcover
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In sum, the thematic approach taken in this text enables detailed discussion of practical issues in these areas from the individual experience of the authors, drawn from the ranks of eminent academics and practitioners.
Introduction
Eugenio A Bruno
Nicholson & Cano
The Institute Global
Part I: Financial and banking system
Current financial crises and rescue packages
Cases of restructurings of financial institutions in the United States: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers and AIG
Jose Bermudez
Eduardo Vidal
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Central banking, financial regulation and property rights
Timothy Congdon
International Monetary Research Ltd
The EESA and related measures
Michael Bopp
Nikesh Jindal
Cantwell F Muckenfuss
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Robert C Eager
Potomac Banking Consulting
Germany
Christina Ungeheur
Latham & Watkins LLP
The Iceland case
Ze’ev D Eiger
James R Tanenbaum
Morrison & Foerster LLP
The Netherlands: Financial crisis and governmental response
William (Pim) Rank
NautaDutilh
Part II: M&A, restructuring and liquidation of financial institutions
Law and practice of bank restructuring in Argentina
Eugenio A Bruno
Nicholson & Cano
The Institute Global
Acquitision and restructuring of Brazilian banks
Jose Carneiro Quiros
Mattos Filho
Germany
Marc Benzler
Anja Breilmann
Clifford Chance
M&A of financial institutions in India post the financial crisis
Cyril Shroff
Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co.
M&A, restructuring and liquidation of financial institutions in Italy
Maria Chiara Cieri
Marcello Gioscia
Gianluigi Pugliese
Ughi e Nunziante
Russia
Max Gutbrod
Baker & McKenzie-CIS, Limited
Restructuring and liquidation of financial institutions: Spain
Jesus Mardomingo Cozas
Fernando Minguez Hernandez
Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira
M&A, restructuring and liquidation of financial institutions in the UK
Chris Ashworth
Lovells LLP
Restructuring and liquidation of US financial institutions
Randall D Guynn
John L Douglas
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Part III: Intermediaries, investment managers and private investment funds
Prime-brokerage regulation
Melissa D Beck
Anna T Pinedo
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Main issues affective private investment funds: Luxembourg
Isabelle Lebbe
Myriam Moulla
Arendt & Medernach
Main offshore issues in a financial crisis
Bermuda
Alex Potts
Paul Smith
Anthony D Whaley
Conyers Dill & Pearman
BVI
Martin A Litwak
Nadia Menezes
Ogier
Law of US broker-dealer insolvency and liquidation
Elliot R Curzon
Dechert LLP
Part IV: Restructuring and Insolvency
Impact of current market conditions on covenants under senior secured credit agreements
Michael S. Baker
Jinho Joo
Steven E. Sherman
Maura E O’Sullivan
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Restructuring cross-border syndicated loans
Richard R Cooper
Dalmau García
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Cross-border debt restructurings
Eugenio A Bruno
Nicholson & Cano
The Institute Global
Restructuring of a project finance transaction
Dino T Barajas
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Japan
Tatsu Katayama
Anderson Mori & Tomtsune
Cases of corporate debt restructurings in Latin America: the Argentine experience 2002-2006
Eugenio A Bruno
Nicholson & Cano
The Institute Global
Mexico
Carlos Aiza
Rodrigo Castelazo
Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez, S.C.
Debt Restructurings and U.S. Securities Laws: An Overview
Juan G. Giráldez
Carlos von der Heyde
Cleary Gottlieb
Update on issues under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Law
Adam J Goldberg
Michael J Riela
Robert J Rosenberg
Latham & Watkins
Cross-border jurisdiction of US bankruptcy laws
Mary Rose Brusewitz
John Rogers
Strasburger & Price, LLP
Part V: Finance Litigation
Securities and bank litigation
Litigation caused by the financial crisis in Germany
Frank Herring
Rudiger Litten
Norton Rose
United Kingdom
Clare Canning
Ruth Malone
Mayer Brown International LLP
US securities litigation in the financial crisis
Ava Borrasso
Hal M Lucas
Astigarraga & Davis
Sovereign Debt – Judicial Cases in the United States
Oliver J Armas
Thomas J Hall
Chadbourne & Parke LLP