Worldwide: Asset Finance

For limited partners, fund finance structures offer a way to achieve liquidity for their fund interests, while for general partners they provide a means to capitalise their funds. In a market characterised by slower exits and tighter bank balance sheets, asset managers and their lenders are increasingly importing structured finance techniques into traditional fund finance products as they search for innovative and scalable solutions.

In UK real estate finance transactions, high-net-worth sponsors are sometimes required to provide personal guarantees to lenders. These guarantees serve as additional security when lenders cannot fully recover debts from the underlying real estate, or when specific risks emerge that require the sponsor to take particular actions within defined timeframes. The personal guarantee creates a financial incentive for sponsors to fulfill their obligations and mitigate identified risks.

Guernsey special purpose vehicles offer aircraft owners, lessors and financiers a flexible, tax-neutral structuring solution for aviation transactions. This briefing examines how Guernsey SPVs provide asset segregation, liability protection and bankruptcy-remote structures while benefiting from the jurisdiction's creditor-friendly laws and Cape Town Convention implementation. Discover the key features that make Guernsey an internationally recognised choice for aircraft ownership and financing arrangements.

The Isle of Man Aircraft Registry is introducing new legislation effective October 2026 that will modernise how lenders register legal claims against aircraft. The Civil Aviation (Mortgaging of Aircraft) Order 2026 brings tighter timelines, enhanced privacy protections, and greater administrative flexibility while preserving core lender protections. These changes will impact all aircraft finance and leasing transactions through the Isle of Man registry.

Kazakhstan's unique legal framework treats aircraft as movable property subject to immovable registration requirements, creating a hybrid regime that significantly impacts aviation financing structures.

The objective of this partnership is to support ACM Europe Limited's internal trade reporting framework through the use of TRAction's trade reporting solution.

The British Business Bank's ("BBB") Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme ("CBILS") was first introduced in April 2021. The new iteration of the Scheme, the Recovery Loan Scheme ("RLS")...

Earlier this month, the British Business Bank outlined the key terms of a new iteration of the Recovery Loan Scheme intended to help smaller UK businesses in their battle against rising costs in the current economic climate.

Every business will from time to time need to acquire new plant and machinery. These might be very expensive items, like new printing presses, manufacturing equipment or vehicles...