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).

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