Login/Register Contact Us SEARCH About Us Membership Documents & Guidelines News & Publications Legal & Regulatory Education & Events LMA.Automate LMA documentation is produced after extensive consultation with leading loan practitioners and law firms so as to represent an agreed common view of documentation structures Microsites COVID-19 Brexit Developing Markets LIBOR Loan Ops Real Estate Finance Sustainable Lending Documents & Guidelines We endeavour to keep our documentation under constant review to ensure that it continues to meet the aims and needs of the primary and secondary loan markets. Our documentation is produced after extensive consultation with leading loan practitioners and law firms so as to represent an agreed common view of documentation structures. Standardisation of the "boiler plate" areas of the documents allows lenders and borrowers to focus on the more important commercial aspects of individual transactions. We are widely regarded as the body that establishes guidelines for the EMEA syndicated loan market. These are, by their nature, wide-ranging and relate to both primary and secondary markets. LMA publishes updated Exposure Draft of Standard Terms and Conditions for secondary debt trading together with accompanying documentation to assist the secondary loan market with LIBOR transition (1 November 2021) The LMA is pleased to have published an updated Exposure Draft of its Standard Terms and Conditions for secondary debt trading together with an accompanying Explanatory Note (and Example Settlement Calculations) and updated Trade Confirmations. The Exposure Draft, Explanatory Note and Trade Confirmations have been revised following engagement and feedback from market participants and systems providers and are intended to facilitate secondary loan market trading as the syndicated loan market transitions away from the use of LIBOR to risk-free rates. Read more LMA publishes term SOFR exposure draft and commentary for use in developing markets jurisdictions (27 October 2021) We have published an exposure draft single currency term and revolving facilities agreement incorporating term SOFR for use in developing markets jurisdictions ("Term SOFR Exposure Draft"), alongside a commentary. The Term SOFR Exposure Draft and the accompanying commentary are intended to facilitate awareness of the issues involved in structuring syndicated loans for developing markets jurisdictions which reference CME term SOFR and the development of an approach to these issues by market participants. The Term SOFR Exposure Draft does not yet constitute a recommended form of the LMA given the absence of established market practice. Read more LMA publishes a new recommended form of borrowing base facility agreement (29 September 2021) We have published a recommended form of revolving facilities agreement for use in borrowing base transactions (the "Borrowing Base Finance Document"). A user guide has been published alongside the Borrowing Base Finance Document. It was recognised that the nature of borrowing base financings was such that it would be very difficult to produce a document which was in any way "standard" document would need to be tailored to the particular transaction. However, it was still felt that a form of facility agreement would be a step forward in promoting the efficiency of the market. Read more Documents Index Issues and Guidance LIBOR Transition Borrowing Base Investment Grade Leveraged/High Yield Leveraged - Senior/Mezzanine Leveraged - Super Senior/Senior Real Estate Finance Schuldscheindarlehen Private Placement Pre-Export Finance Export Finance Developing Markets South African Law Investment Grade Local African Law French Law Investment Grade German Law Investment Grade Spanish Law Investment Grade Green & Sustainable Finance Release & Reliance Letters Secondary Debt Trading Restructuring Bail-in Clause General Brexit Show All Issues and Guidance Relevant Documents up LIBOR Transition Rate Switch Documentation and Commentary up Replacement of Screen Rate Clause up Issues & Guidance up Compounded RFR Facility Documentation & Commentary up Reference Rate Selection Agreement up Term SOFR Exposure Draft and Commentary up RFR Drafting Guide up Borrowing Base Facility Documentation up Investment Grade Mandate and Syndication Documentation up LIBOR Facility Documentation up RFR Facility Documentation up Leveraged/High Yield Facility Documentation up Intercreditor Agreement up RFR Drafting Guide up Leveraged - Senior/Mezzanine Mandate and Syndication Documentation up Facility Documentation up Other up Intercreditor Agreement up RFR Drafting Guide up Leveraged - Super Senior/Senior Intercreditor Agreement up RFR Drafting Guide up Real Estate Finance Syndication Documentation up RFR Facility Documentation up LIBOR Facility Documentation - Single Loan up LIBOR Facility Documentation – Senior/Mezzanine up Intercreditor Agreement up Supporting Documentation up Schuldscheindarlehen Schuldschein Loan Agreement up Schuldscheindarlehensvertrag up RFR Drafting Guide up Private Placement Ancillary Documentation up Private Placement Documentation up RFR Drafting Guide up Pre-Export Finance Mandate and Syndication Documentation up Facility Documentation up RFR Drafting Guide up Export Finance Facility Documentation up RFR Drafting Guide up Developing Markets LIBOR Facility Documentation up RFR Facility Documentation up RFR Drafting Guide up South African Law Investment Grade Mandate and Syndication Documentation up Facility Documentation up RFR Drafting Guide up Local African Law Facility Documentation up RFR Drafting Guide up French Law Investment Grade Facility Documentation up RFR Drafting Guide up German Law Investment Grade Facility Documentation up RFR Drafting Guide up Spanish Law Investment Grade Facility Documentation up RFR Drafting Guide up Green & Sustainable Finance Green Loan Principles up Social Loan Principles up Sustainability Linked Loan Principles up Resources up Release & Reliance Letters Relevant Documents up Secondary Debt Trading RFR Exposure Drafts up Issues and Guidance up Markup Archive up Terms and Conditions Archive up Secondary Trading Documentation up Restructuring Relevant Documents up Bail-in Clause Relevant Documents up General Market Guidelines up User Guides up Public/Private Information up Brexit Relevant Documents up These Materials (which term includes, where the context permits, text, content, spreadsheets incorporating macros and electronic interfaces, and their underlying assumptions, conversions, formulae, algorithms, calculations and other mathematical and financial techniques) are made available to members of the Loan Market Association in accordance with the byelaws of the Loan Market Association (a copy of which is available here) to facilitate the documentation of transactions in the loan markets. 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