Jamie Macpherson
Macfarlanes LLP
Articles
Getting comfortable with letters of comfort
United Kingdom - November 24 2022 As the name suggests, letters of comfort have long been regarded as offering little more than passive "comfort" to their recipients. Distinct from…
UK publishes extended sanctions over Russian entities
Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom - March 2 2022 The new sanctions, which are contained in four new statutory instruments (SI 2022/194, SI 2022/195, SI 2022/203 and SI 2022/205) extend existing…
Russia/Ukraine conflict: implications of sanctions for financing transactions
European Union, United Kingdom, USA - February 22 2022 For background and discussion of some of the options available to the UK Government as a matter of law and policy, please see the first article in…
LIBOR transition hedging closer
United Kingdom - November 19 2021 Despite the publication of the ISDA 2020 IBOR Fallbacks Protocol in October 2020 and incremental, but significant, progress in European loan markets…
Legislating for the LIBOR transition: synthetic LIBOR for tough legacy contracts
United Kingdom - September 16 2021 With less than four months to go before the FCA turns off the supply of daily LIBOR (in its well-used form) for most of the 35 currency-tenor…
