Events
Book Launch: Finance Law - Stephen Connelly
About the Event:
Professor Stephen Connelly’s Finance Law is a textbook designed for LLM and advanced LLB students with an interest in advanced applications of private law to modern financial transactions. Based on five years of post qualification experience and a decade of legal teaching, the book sets out to explain what finance is trying to achieve and what it demands from the law to do this. The focus of the text is the London Form of syndicated credit agreement – the core contractual basis for a multiplicity of transactions, from corporate financings to leveraged buyouts, from real estate finance to bilateral sovereign debt. Time is taken to explain why financial contracts are designed the way they are, and what stresses financial demands place on supposedly settled principles of private law.
Discussants:
Dr Andreas Kokkinis, Associate Professor, Birmingham Law Scjhool, University of Birmingham
Dr Karina Patricio Ferreira Lima, Leeds Law School, University of Leeds
The event will be followed by a drinks reception. Please email globe@warwick.ac.uk if you have dietary or access requirements.
About the Speaker:
Professor Stephen Connelly's principal research interest is in the philosophy and history of legal systems. He also provides expert analysis on finance law, focusing on the private law techniques used in the field. Among his publications is the leading student textbook on the subject: Finance Law (Routledge, 2025). Stephen has both given evidence to the UK Parliament and drafted legislation pertaining to sovereign debt.