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Product Description
Written by a noted corporate legal skills trainer, this invaluable, affordable tool offers the financial, business, accounting, drafting and legal information that must be understood for corporate finance documentation, especially debt documentation. Covering all the components of effective contract drafting, Drafting for Corporate Finance offers a practical grasp of basic structural issues, including the parties, instruments, markets, and terminology - conditions precedent, representations, warranties, defaults, and other provisions, and their interplay - full spectrum of subsidiaries, starting with wholly-owned vs. non-wholly owned - Contract structure, drafting, and negotiation, including potential problems - housekeeping, insurance, information, general business, and financial covenants - debt and negative pledges, including restrictions on sale-leasebacks, on debt, and on debt of subsidiaries - enforceability, security interest, true sale, and 10b-5 opinions - amendment, control, and refinancing provisions - risk-based review of contracts to eliminate compromising contract errors. Also included is a best practices chapter featuring a technical drafting checklist, guidance on drafting disclosure of contract terms and on leveraging technology, and cautionary lessons of Enron.
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