Leasing and Asset Finance

Fourth Edition The Comprehensive Guide for Practitioners

Summary
This book has a strong global emphasis and this fourth edition includes many contributors from the previous edition as well as 11 new authors. Each a specialist in their field, they help guide us around the complex and global asset finance industry. The introductory chapters begin with a review of major leasing markets, selected sectors and some industry trends by Vic Lock. In Chapter 2, Chris Higson considers the contribution of asset finance to national economies and questions the value placed upon them by governments and their exchequers. Chapter 3 provides an explanation by Malcolm Rogers of the importance of thorough risk analysis and examines some of the techniques available. The objectives of the Basle Proposals on Capital Adequacy are explained and analysed by Sally Williams, Richard Smith and Stephen Potts in Chapter 4. The legal, tax and accountancy section begins with a thorough review of documentation, transaction structures and the legal features of cross-border transactions by Simon Hall in Chapters 5, 6 and 7. These are followed by Dorothy Livingston who considers the competition laws in the European Union and the United Kingdom in Chapter 8, and in Chapter 9 she examines State aid and procurement, which have been the subject of much recent discussion in Europe and of great interest to asset financiers. Chapter 10 reveals the latest developments in taxation as explained by Philip Marwood. David Maxwell reassesses the techniques of lease evaluation in Chapter 11 and Colin Dowsett, explains the concepts of lease accounting and capitalisation in Chapters 12 and 13. We then examine some areas of specific business focus; Nicholas Sanderson reviews the dynamic areas of financing leasing companies and some of the related operational and security issues involved in Chapter 14. He then moves on to discuss the purchase and sale of leasing companies in Chapter 15. Sam Geneen follows in Chapter 16 by explaining the principles, problems and opportunities of operating leasing. In Chapter 17, Philip Griffin takes us around the world explaining and challenging the vagaries and some of the mysteries of cross-border leasing from an intermediarys perspective. In Chapter 18, Bruce Gaitskell reviews the many developments in securitisation and the wide applications for lessors. In Chapter 19, the editor, Chris Boobyer, attempts to provide an explanation of what the European Union is in terms of its construction, powers and future direction as an economic and autonomous semi-state and what this might mean for the development of asset finance in Europe. The final chapter provides an in-depth look at the leasing industry in Japan and individual reviews by the respective senior lease association officers in the major leasing continents around the world. Their responses to a series of questions provide a comprehensive global picture of the asset finance industry.

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