A Practical Guide to Using Repo Master Agreements

Paul C. Harding is a graduate of the University of London, and has worked in several UK and foreign banks in London, in credit, marketing and documentation roles. Since 1990 he has been involved with derivatives documentation. He was a well-known negotiator in the City of London with Barclays Capital Securities Limited and Hill Samuel Bank Limited, where he was Head of Treasury Documentation. In February 1997 he founded Derivatives Documentation Limited, a derivatives consultancy and project management company, based in the City of London and providing negotiation, recruitment and in-house training services in derivatives documentation (website: www.derivsdocu.com). Its clients include many of the world's leading banks. In November 2001 Paul's book Mastering the ISDA Master Agreement was published by Financial Times-Prentice Hall. This was followed by his Mastering Collateral Management and Documentation, written in conjunction with Christian Johnson, which was published by Financial Times-Prentice Hall, in November 2002. His book on the 2002 ISDA Master Agreement was published in December 2003 also by Financial Times-Prentice Hall, and in June 2004 his A Practical Guide to the 2003 ISDA Credit Derivatives Definitions was published by Euromoney Books.

Christian A. Johnson is an associate law professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where he teaches courses on derivatives, banking and taxation. He graduated from Columbia Law School and was the Executive Editor of the Columbia Law Review. He practised law with Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy in New York and Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw in Chicago before teaching. Christian Johnson has published extensively on corporate finance and banking. He has published more than 25 articles on banking, corporate finance and derivatives, and wrote and published Over-the-Counter Derivatives Documentation: A Practical Guide for Executives in 2000. Christian is also a frequent speaker and panellist on corporate finance and banking issues, and has served as an expert witness in these areas. Finally, he brings more than 14 years in negotiating and documenting repurchase transactions and over-the-counter derivatives, having represented several large money centre banks, Federal Home Loan Banks and hedge funds in negotiations. His previous collaboration with Paul Harding was in 2002, when he co-wrote Mastering Collateral Management and Documentation, which was published by Financial Times- Prentice Hall.