Legal risk in the financial markets
- 2nd
- Oxford Oxford University Press 2010
- 491p xxxv
Contents: Introduction; Part 1: The General Context; 1: Why Legal Risk is Important: a Short History; 2: Risk and Capital; 3: Legal Risk in the London Market; 4: The Global Context; 5: The Law-maker, the Regulator and Current Preoccupations; Part 2: The Global Financial Crisis of 2007-9; 6: Market and Regulatory Failure; 7: The Initial Impact of the Crisis on the Financial Markets; 8: Legal and Regulatory Responses to the Crisis in the UK; 9: Response to the Crisis by the EU and Elsewhere; 10: The Legal Risk Implications of the Crisis; Part 3: The Impact of Globalisation; 11: Legal Risk in a Globalising Financial Market; 12: Social Responsibility and Governance; 13: The Role of International and Multilateral Institutions in Financial Law Reform; Part 4: Early Perceptions of Legal Risk; 14: A Landmark Case and its Aftermath; 15: A Case of Conceptual Impossibility; 16: Settling Differences; Part 5: Characteristics of Legal Risk; 17: Definition; 18: Sources of Legal Risk; 19: Causation; Part 6: Examples of Legal Risk; 20: Property Interests in Indirectly Held Investment Securities; 21: Vague Laws; 22: Recharacterization; Part 7: Legal Risk Management; 23: The Essentials of Legal Risk Management; 24: Lawyers' Responsibility for the Management of Legal Risk; Part 8: Conclusions; 25: A 'Risk-based Approach' to Law; Appendices.
9780199575916
1. Financial Services Industry - Law & Llegislation2. Financial Institutions - Corporate Governance - Law & Legislation.3. Securities - Globalization