Trade finance : a legal guide for cross-border transactions.

Contents;

Part one: International payment
Chapter 1: The terms of payment
Section 1. Where to pay
Section 2. The time of payment
Section 3. The extent of payment

Chapter 2: Modalities of payment
Section 1. Monetary payment
Section 2. Payment by countertrade

Part Two: International financing
Chapter 3: The various forms of credit

Chapter 4: Documentary collections

Chapter 5: Documentary credits
Section 1. The fundamentals of documentary credit
Section 2. The international rules on documentary credits: UCP 500
Section 3: The relationships between the parties to a documentary credit
etc.

Chapter 6: Islamic financing

Chapter 7: International financial leasing
Section 1. Leasing in summary
Section 2. The relationships between the parties to an international lease
Section 3. The international law of financial leasing: The Ottawa convention of 28 May 1988

Part three: International refinancing
Chapter 8: The assignment of receivables
Section 1. The assignor - assignee relationship
Section 2. The assignee debtor relationship
Section 3. Validity of the assignment against third parties
Section 4. The new uniform law of international assignments of receivables

Chapter 9: Forfaiting

Chapter 10: Factoring

Part four: Guarantees in international trade
Chapter 11: Independent guarantees, counterguarantees and suretyships

Chapter 12: How to draft an independent guarantee

Chapter 13: The most frequently used independent guarantees

Chapter 14: The international practice of independent guarantees

Chapter 15: Towards a uniform international law on independent guarantees

Chapter 16: The standby letter of credit

Part five: Security over goods in international trade
Chapter 17: Securities requiring the transfer of possession: The pledge
Section 1. The limits of a pledge in case of bankruptcy
Section 2. How to adapt a pledge to the requirements of international trade transactions

Chapter 18: Warehouse receipts

Part six: Applicable law and dispute settlement
Chapter 19: The applicable law
Section 1: Express choice of law
Section 2: Implied choice of law
Section 3. The applicable law in the absence of a choice of law

Chapter 20: International dispute settlement
Section 1. Alternative dispute resolution
Section 2. International litigation
Section 3. International commercial arbitration

Glossary : p. 353-363 . _ Index : p. 367-373.