China’s $1.7 trillion hangover

China’s $1.7 trillion hangover

Up to 40% of China’s $1.7 trillion LGFV loans are at high risk of default. What’s a panicking Beijing to do?

The truth about Asian investment banking

The truth about Asian investment banking

Reality bites

  • Join us
Skip Navigation LinksHome :: Back Issues :: What they never taught you in law school

December 1999

What they never taught you in law school


If you ever forget - or never knew - what being a banking lawyer is all about, there's a book that will make it all horribly clear, says Christopher Stoakes


This is the end of a millennium, the season of giving. It coincides with my final column. I would like to mark it by heaping praise on another writer on financial law, one whose book would make a handy present for clients (especially in-house lawyers) and that casts a light on the development of the Euromarkets.

Philip R Wood of Allen & Overy is rightly hailed as the doyen of capital markets lawyers for his seminal six-volume work Law and practice of international finance(Sweet & Maxwell, 1995). Alongside it on the bookshelf, though, I would slip a volume of no more than 180 pages, How to negotiate Eurocurrency loan agreements (Euromoney, 1995), a second edition of which is due out early next year. The author is well known to these pages, being Lee C Buchheit, doyen of lawyers dealing with sovereign debt restructuring and a partner in Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.

The...


You must be a trialist or subscriber to view this content

Please Subscribe or take a Free Trial below.
Already a subscriber? Log in here.





Download the Free Euromoney iPad app today

  1. FX survey 2012: Overall results

  2. Euromoney’s 2012 FX survey results

  3. Inside JPMorgan's $2 billion loss-making CIO division

  4. The money network: Why crowdfunding threatens traditional bank lending

  5. Global banks poised for Africa growth


Home |  Mobile site |  Contact Us |  Subscribe |  Capital markets |  FX/Treasury |  Investment |  Regions & Emerging markets |  Surveys and awards |  Back issues |  Euromoney store |  Useful links & Related events |  Site Map |  Cookies |  Do more with Euromoney | 

RSS Feed  |  Change font size:   

The material on this site is for financial institutions, professional investors and their professional advisers. It is for information only. Please read our Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy before using the site.

All material subject to strictly enforced copyright laws. © 2012 Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC.