Drafting for Corporate Finance: Concepts, Deals and Documents, Second Edition offers the legal, financial, business, accounting, and drafting information that lawyers must understand when it comes to corporate finance documentation, especially as it relates to debt. Drafting for Corporate Finance covers all the components of effective contract drafting, including: -contract structure, conditions precedent, representations and warranties, covenants and defaults -debt and lien, general business and financial covenants, and -amendment, control, and refinancing provisions. The book includes tips for risk-based review of contracts to avoid compromising drafting errors, and best practice guidelines. It also provides an introductory overview of the players and the instruments that make up corporate finance, and explains corporate structure issues, commitments, conditions, pricing and risk, liquidity support and credit support. The book outlines the basic rules of bankruptcy, describes the practical details of how deals are done, and discusses opinion practice and post-closing contract interpretation. The scope of the book makes it useful not only for lawyers but for other junior corporate finance professionals in banking or working for companies.
About the Author: Carolyn E.C. Paris (A.B. University of Illinois 1973; M.A. University of Texas 1975; J.D. Stanford University 1978; M.B.A. Columbia University 2001; Columbia University Second Majors Program (Computer Science) 2002) was at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City from 1978 to 1980 and from 1983 through 1999, where she was a partner from 1989 through 1998, and Director of Practice Information and Professional Development in 1999. Her practice at Davis Polk encompassed a broad range of debt finance, including acquisition and leveraged finance, on behalf of both financial institutions and corporate and municipal clients. From 1980-1983, she was with Coudert Brothers in Singapore, involved principally with Indonesian lending and project-related work. During 2001-2002, she was a Fellow at the Deming Center for Quality, Productivity and Competitiveness at the Columbia Business School (New York City). From 2003-2007, she worked in risk management and systems development for Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw in London. Ms. Paris is the author of How to Draft for Corporate Finance (Practising Law Institute 2001 & Supp. 2006). She is also author of "Selecting a Bankruptcy Remote Entity," in New York and Delaware Business Entities (eds. Arthur Norman Field and Morton Moskin, West 1997), co-author of "Operational Due Diligence," in Due Diligence for Global Deal Making (ed. Arthur Rosenbloom, Bloomberg Press 2002), and author of "Contract Management: Design Parameters and Challenges to Implementation," in A Proactive Approach: Scandinavian Studies in Law Volume 49 (Stockholm Institute for Scandinavian Law 2006). She is based in London but visits New York City on a regular basis.