United Kingdom: Asset Finance

Cross-border lending in the mid-market presents unique challenges that require careful planning and attention to detail. What are the critical legal and structural considerations that lenders and borrowers must address early in the transaction process to ensure successful international financing arrangements?

Scotland's Moveable Transactions Act 2023 has fundamentally transformed security enforcement and insolvency procedures by introducing statutory pledges and assignations. How do these new fixed security regimes expand practical enforcement options beyond traditional administration, and what boundary issues will insolvency practitioners need to navigate as secured creditor rights evolve?

For limited partners, fund finance structures offer a way to achieve liquidity for their fund interests, while for general partners they provide a means to capitalise their funds. In a market characterised by slower exits and tighter bank balance sheets, asset managers and their lenders are increasingly importing structured finance techniques into traditional fund finance products as they search for innovative and scalable solutions.

The updated ASIC OTC derivative transaction reporting covers 128 fields.

ICAVs and SICAVs are two common but distinct types of investment vehicle structures in Ireland and Europe.

In the recent decision in Lakatamia Shipping Company Ltd v Hsia and another (the Lakatamia Ruling), the UK Commercial Court provided helpful commentary...

The UK motor finance sector has grown rapidly over the last few years.

Whilst the news cycle in the UK might have been periodically dominated by sunshine and sport over the early summer, the complexity of world relations, the economy and the use of personal data...

On July 13, 2018, a Commission Delegated Regulation amending and supplementing the European Money Market Funds Regulation was published in the Official Journal of the European Union.