CITATION

Shaiman, Lee M. and Marsh, Bridget K.. The Handbook of Loan Syndications and Trading, Second Edition. New York: McGraw Hill LLC, 2022.

The Handbook of Loan Syndications and Trading, Second Edition

Published:  February 2022 Pages: 704

eISBN: 9781264258536 | ISBN: 9781264258529
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1 An Introduction to the Loan Asset Class
  • Chapter 2 The Primary Market
  • Introduction to the Primary Market
  • Information in the Loan Market: Material Nonpublic Information and Confidential Information
  • Settling Primary Allocations
  • Bringing Benchmarks to the Complex Realm of Loan Covenants
  • Chapter 3 Understanding the Credit Agreement
  • Chapter 4 The Seismic Transition: From LIBOR to a New Reference Rate
  • Chapter 5 Loans Are Not Securities
  • Introduction
  • Effects of the Legal Characterization of Loans Under the Securities Laws
  • Some Practical Implications of Treating Loans as Securities
  • Chapter 6 Loan Structures
  • Second Lien Loans
  • Role of Commercial Banks in Project Finance
  • Chapter 7 Loan Trading
  • Introduction to Loan Trading
  • How to Trade Loans and the Strategies to Use
  • Chapter 8 The Secondary Loan Market
  • Overview of the Secondary Loan Market
  • The U.S. Leveraged Loan Market Through the Lens of the S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Index
  • The Secondary Loan Market: Settling Loan Transactions
  • Chapter 9 Analytics and Performance
  • Portfolio Engineering: Applying Quantitative Tools for Efficient CLO Investment Management
  • Lessons from More than a Trillion Dollars in Defaults
  • Chapter 10 Distressed Loan Investing
  • The History of the Distressed Corporate Loan Market
  • Overview of Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code
  • Critical Financial Considerations in Distressed Situations
  • A Closer Look at Provisions Permitting Liability Management Transactions
  • Chapter 11 Overview of Loan Credit Default Swaps and Loan Total Return Swaps
  • Overview of Loan Credit Default Swaps
  • Overview of Bank Loan Total Return Swaps
  • Chapter 12 Loan Fund Portfolio Management
  • Chapter 13 Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs): A Primer
  • Chapter 14 Public Policy and the Loan Market: How the Syndicated Loan Market Is Impacted by Legislation, Regulation, and the Judicial System
  • Chapter 15 The Globalization of the Loan Market
  • Non-U.S. Dollar (Non-USD) Syndicated Institutional Leveraged Loan Market
  • The Global Syndicated Loan Market–EMEA
  • The Evolving Asia Pacific Loan Market
  • Chapter 16 Middle Market Lending
  • Chapter 17 Private Credit
  • Chapter 18 ESG in the Loan Market
  • Introduction
  • ESG Considerations in Credit Analysis
  • Sustainable Lending: Where We Stand as We Enter 2021
  • The Evolution of Sustainability-Linked Lending: Watershed Moments and Expanding Investor Participation
  • Chapter 19 Accounting for Loans
  • Chapter 20 The Loan Market, Blockchain, and Smart Contracts: The Potential for Transformative Change
  • Glossary of Terms
  • Index