This course, after a general review of centrally relevant legal principle, addresses at an advanced level law and practice concerning a range of processes utilised or met with in the financing of commercial enterprise. The principal but not excclusive focus is on the raising of debt finance, including secured transactions, subordinated and unsecured lending, bank finance and capital market borrowings, and syndicated loan financing. While topics considered may vary from year to year they will include many of the following : negotiable instruments; stamp duty considerations; project and infrastructure financing; security and guarantees; insolvency issues in banking and finance, including voluntary administration; securitisation; leasing; selected lending techniques including syndication, transferable loan facilities and co-financings; international capital markets.