Practice and Documentation

By Mark Campbell and Christoph Weaver

This fully revised, updated and expanded edition of the industry standard text takes the reader through the complete life cycle of a syndicated loan. Beginning with the opening phase of mandating a lead bank, Syndicated Lending delves through negotiation, documentation, syndication and closing transactions to conclude with the secondary market.

This seventh edition includes new supplements dealing with:

• regional syndicated loan markets
• growing regulatory framework
• the influence of Brexit on the market
• the challenges thrown up by the transition from LIBOR-based pricing to the proposed risk-free rate environment.

The practice of syndicated lending is similarly explored in its historical context, by following the ups and downs of this most flexible, and enduring, financial market. Plus, while the market moves toward digitisation, summaries are provided for the leading technology solutions being developed.

With practical explanations, reflecting practices developed by the LMA, from borrowers, bankers and investors, this book offers insight from industry professionals with decades of experience as well as detailed examples of pricing methodology. There is also an up-to-date discussion of documentary issues, including annotated term sheets and loan documents, contributed by Clifford Chance.

This is the essential guide to the commercial and documentary aspects of syndicated lending for lenders, borrowers, investors, lawyers, regulators and service providers.

Mark Campbell is Special Counsel at international law firm Clifford Chance. He joined Clifford Chance in 1982 and has specialised in international and domestic banking and financial work. He has acted for a wide variety of arrangers of syndicated financing transactions of all types and has advised the Loan Market Association on its standard documentation since its inception. In recent years much of his work has centred around the acquisition finance, leveraged buy-out and restructuring markets. He has contributed to periodicals on financial law and is a regular speaker at conferences on syndicated lending and secondary market issues. Mark took his Law degree at Oriel College, Oxford and is the Chair of Governors for Shapla School, Tower Hamlets and Chair of Trustees at Tower Hamlets Education Business Partnership.

Christoph Weaver is General Manager of BayernLB, London Branch. Previously, he was Deputy Head of Loan Capital Markets and Head of Transaction Management at Royal Bank of Scotland. During his time at RBS, Christoph had geographic responsibilities for Germany, Austria & Switzerland, Nordics, France and Southern Europe. He joined RBS in 2004, before which he worked for HVB (now Unicredit) to establish and spear-head their Corporate Syndications Team with additional responsibilities for the financial institutions team and a major focus on European Borrowers. In 1997, Christoph moved to the Debt finance Division of Bankgesellschaft Berlin where he became Head of Syndications, leading a cross border team with a particular focus on borrowers in Eastern Europe, the Nordics and the Near Middle East. Christoph started his career at WestLB in credit before moving on to Syndications where he focused largely on UK corporates and FIs.