Overview

This new work is the first comparative study of central and eastern European secured transactions laws to be written in English. It gives a valuable insight into the legal reforms taking place in the transition economies of central and eastern Europe (and elsewhere), explaining the general mechanics of secured transactions laws in a helpful and practical way.The book will explore the characteristics that make security law useful from a practical point of view, the purpose being not merely to describe existing rules on security but to concentrate on the question of how those rules can apply in practice. The author concentrates on seven central and eastern European secured transactions laws in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Russian Federation and the Slovak Republic. These laws are contrasted with the EBRD's Model Law on Secured Transactions and the EBRD's Core Principles for a Modern Secured Transactions Law. In addition, English, German and US law (which, among others, influenced the EBRD's work) are used as further reference sources.

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Author:   Jan-Hendrik Röver (, Managing Partner, Asset Capital Partners, and Visiting Professor, University of Augsburg) ,  Jan-Hendrik Rover ,  Duncan Fairgrieve
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.70cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 25.60cm
Weight:   0.876kg
ISBN:  

9780198260134

ISBN 10:   019826013
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   22 March 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: Approaching the Subject 1: Central and Eastern Europe and the Reform of Secured Transactions Laws 2: The Practical Need for Security and the Economics of Security 3: An Approach to Law Reform 4: The Role of Comparative Law and Law Reform Part II: Reference Systems of Secured Transactions Law 5: Scope of the Analysis and Fundamental Issues of Secured Transactions Law 6: Legal Models of Secured Transactions Law in Western Countries 7: Charges Under the EBRD Model Law on Secured Transactions 8: The EBRD Core Principles for a Modern Secured Transactions Law 9: Central and Eastern European Secured Transactions Laws Part III: Principles of Secured Transactions Laws in Central and Eastern Europe 10: General Principles of Secured Transactions Law 11: Secured Debt 12: Charged Property 13: Person Giving and Person Taking Security 14: Creation of Security 15: Transfer of Security 16: Publicity of Security 17: Rights and Obligations of the Person Giving Security and the Person Taking Security Inter Se Prior to Enforcement 18: Effects on Third Parties 19: Enforcement of Security 20: Security in Insolvency 21: Termination of Security 22: Conclusion Appendices App 1: Text of the Model Law on Secured Transactions prepared by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (1994) App 2: Core Principles for a Secured Transactions Law prepared by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (1997)

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Undoubtedly fulfils the needs of those seeking a detailed account of secured lending laws in Eastern Europe and is certainly practical in its focus...Dr Rover has produced a work which contains considerable insights into the process and outcomes of law reform efforts and in that respect this is a book which is deserving of a broader audience than those who toil in the field of secured lending. Legal Studies, Vol 28, no. 3

Undoubtedly fulfils the needs of those seeking a detailed account of secured lending laws in Eastern Europe and is certainly practical in its focus...Dr Rover has produced a work which contains considerable insights into the process and outcomes of law reform efforts and in that respect this is a book which is deserving of a broader audience than those who toil in the field of secured lending. * Legal Studies, Vol 28, no. 3 *

Author Information

Jan-Hendrik Röver is a managing partner of Asset Capital Partners, an investment banking firm with offices in Munich and Moscow. Previously he headed the equity funds and asset based mezzanine group in the Project and Asset Based Financing division of Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG, Munich. For several years he worked in the legal department of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London. There he was involved in the drafting of a model law on secured transactions (1994), which is used by central and eastern European countries for the reform of their security laws. Dr Rover studied law in Bonn, Geneva, Strasbourg, Munich, Speyer and at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is dually qualified as an attorney in Germany and a barrister in England and Wales. His book on comparative law (Vergleichende Prinzipien dinglicher Sicherheiten, Munich 1999) was awarded both the Jean Rey prize and the Bruno Heck prize.

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