Documentation for Loans, Assignments and Participations

Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-1-85564-458-8
Verlag: Euromoney

Buch, Englisch, 390 Seiten

Written by the best-selling authors and leading lawyers Anthony Gooch and Linda Klein. Building on their outstanding documentation titles, such as Documentation for Derivatives, this is an essential guide to all the standard documentation associated with loans which no practitioner can afford to be without.

This edition has completely several new features including: an introduction to loan concepts and terminology; discussion of the standard terms for assignments of loan assets and the standards for asset sales; and consideration of the differing conventions between bank and non-bank institutional lenders. It includes a detailed discussion of participation and assignment agreements, making this the complete legal reference manual for loans.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gooch, Anthony C

Klein, Linda B

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen: Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Bankwirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Anlagen & Wertpapiere
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Internationale Finanzmärkte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Internationale Finanzmärkte
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

General Introduction to Loan Concepts And Terminology

Part I Commitment Letters
Introductory Note on Commitment Letters
Annotated Sample Commitment Letter

Part II Single-Bank Loan Agreements
Introductory Note on Eurocurrency Lending
Annotated Sample Loan Agreement

Part III Syndicated Revolving Credit Agreements
Introductory Note on Syndicated Lending and Multi-Option
Revolving Facilities
Annotated Sample Revolving Credit Agreement

Part IV Participation Agreements
Introductory Note on Participations in Bank Loans
Annotated Sample Participation Agreement

Part V Assignment Agreements
Introductory Note on Assignments of Bank Loans
Annotated Sample Assignment Agreement

Part VI Topic Notes
Note on Environmental Matters
Note on ERISA Concerns
Note on Derivatives Concerns
Note on Bank and Nonbank Lending Conventions

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Antony C. Gooch is a partner of Cleary, Gottleib, Steen & Hamilton, based in the firm’s New York office. He works on international financial and commercial transactions, including documentation for transactions of the kinds illustrated in this volume, domestic and international loans, sovereign debt restructuring, international debt and equity issues, investment company offerings, asset securitisations, privatisations and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Mr Gooch grew up in Brazil, and his practice includes work for Brazilian private- and public –sector entities, as well as international investors, lenders and investment banks with interests in Brazil and other Latin American countries. He holds a B.A degree from the University of the South, a diploma from the College of Europe and J.D and M.C.J. degrees from New York University School of Law, where he was Articles Editor of the Law Review.

Linda B. Klein is counsel to Debevoise & Plimpton, based in the firm’s New York office. She works on a wide variety of domestic and international financial transactions. Her practice includes work on derivative transactions of all kinds, as wekk as international loans and issues of debt and equity, particularly those involving Latin American borrowers and issuers, sovereign and private-sector debt restructuring, participation and assignment agreements and structured financings. She holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Queens College and J.D and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, where she taught Latin American literature from 1971 to 1976 and was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Transnational Law in 1978-1979.