Description

This short course will discuss various issues relating to the legal and doctrinal framework surrounding trade finance transactions, focusing in particular upon: (a) the impact that burgeoning bank regulatory requirements and technology are having upon the law and practice of trade finance; (b) recent judicial developments across the leading trade finance centres; and (c) a re-examination and refresher of those key areas that tend to provide recurring difficulties for the trade finance practitioner. The short course will aim to provide useful material not only for those new to this area of practice, but also some food for thought for seasoned practitioners.

About The Speaker

Christopher Hare is the Travers Smith Associate Professor of Corporate and Commercial Law at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow in Law at Somerville College, Oxford. After a short period at the English Bar, he held teaching posts at the University of Auckland and Jesus College, Cambridge. He has degrees from Trinity College, Cambridge (undergraduate), Harvard Law School (LLM) and Brasenose College, Oxford (BCL). His teaching and research interests lie broadly in the law of obligations and the corporate and commercial law fields, with particular focus on domestic and international banking law, corporate finance, and shareholder remedies. His books include Ellinger, Lomnicka and Hare, Modern Banking Law (OUP, 5th ed, 2011), Watts, Campbell and Hare, Company Law in New Zealand(LexisNexis, 2nd ed, 2015) and Cranston, Avgouleas, Van Zwieten, Hare and Van Sante, Principles of Banking Law (OUP, 3rd ed, 2018). He has also contributed chapters on syndicated lending and tiers of lenders to Paget’s Law of Banking (LexisNexis, 14th ed, 2015).

Who Should Attend

Lawyers, In-house counsel and legal officers working in the maritime industry and in commercial trade, ship owners, banks and financial institutions, freight forwarders, traders, charterers, forwarders and those handling claims arising in maritime and commercial contexts.