A timely guide to today's high-yield corporate debt markets Leveraged Finance is a comprehensive guide to the instruments and markets that finance much of corporate America. Presented in five sections, this experienced author team covers topics ranging from the basics of bonds and loans to more advanced topics such as valuing CDs, default correlations among CLOs, and hedging strategies across corporate capital structures. ...

This book is a practical guide to derivatives, setting out a straightforward and easily understood explanation of the basic concepts, the different types of derivative product, who uses derivatives, and why and how derivatives are used. The book explains both more established products (such as futures, options, and swaps) and more innovative products (such as CPPI structures and those derivative contracts used as financing tools). The expansion of the derivative market to cover different underlying assets (such as freight, power trading, emissions trading, and hedge funds) is explored.

This well-thought-out book, the first of its kind in this particular field, examines the case for the European onshore hedge fund industry's regulation, making concrete proposals for its normative future. Following a detailed account of the 'established' regulatory systems in Ireland and Luxembourg, as well as of the 'emerging' hedge fund jurisdictions in Italy, France, Spain and Germany, and of the regulatory treatment of hedge funds in the UK, this book examines to what extent the continuing exclusion of hedge funds from harmonized European regulation is defensible, whether their differences to traditional asset management products justify their distinct regulatory treatment and, ultimately, if their EU-wide regulation is possible and, if so, what form this should take.

Credit Derivatives: Documenting and Understanding Credit Derivative Products examines the full spectrum of credit derivative transactions. This accessible new title explains, in straightforward terms, each type of credit derivative transaction, together with the documentation involved. In particular, the book analyses and guides the reader through the full suite of funded and unfunded credit derivatives documentation, and provides a detailed guide to the 2003 ISDA Credit Derivatives Definitions

Corporate Partnering is full of practical forms covering all aspects of strategic alliances annotated with crisp, clear commentary that explains the real-world issues addressed by each provision and how alternative solutions may be used to accomplish different aims. These carefully crafted agreements cover the broad range of areas from supply and distribution agreements, product and technology licenses, and research and development agreements to investment and investment-related arrangements.

Since its first edition, the International Securities Law Handbook has answered the need for a user-friendly source of information covering the most significant jurisdictions. Now fully updated, this invaluable reference presents the key elements of securities law and regulations in 30 jurisdictions. Country chapters, each written by an expert in the particular country s securities law, appear alphabetically.

This book considers some of the fundamental issues concerning the legal framework that has been established to support a single EU securities market. It focuses particularly on how the emerging legal framework will affect issuers' access to the primary and secondary market. The Financial Services Action Plan (FSAP, 1999) was an attempt to equip the community better to meet the challenges of monetary union and to capitalise on the potential benefits of a single market in financial services. It led to extensive change in securities market regulation ...

Written as a "first-stop" guide for anyone involved in cross-border securities transactions, Securities Transactions in Europe provides an overview of the national systems and regulatory environments governing the securities markets in ten key European countries. ...

Meet the challenges of securities practice with this handbook. It provides advice on registration of securities, the plain-English prospectus, underwriting and selling groups, annual and periodic reports, small-company offerings, exempt offerings, the Trust Indenture Act, Rule 144A and the PORTAL Market, shareholder proposals, Blue Sky compliance, securities law violations, EDGAR, the integrated disclosure system, private express remedies, SEC enforcement, practice before the Commission, and professional responsibility.

This booklet contains the full text of the basic federal securities laws, related Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules and forms, and other related laws and regulations. It is designed as a supplement to securities regulation texts used in law school courses but can also serve as a basic reference for lawyers, securities professionals, and corporate officers. It contains important changes to SEC rules and forms made in December 2007, including revisions to 1933 Act Rules 144 and 145, the elimination of Regulation S-B and special registration and disclosure forms for small business issuers, and revised Regulation S-K and forms.