Roger McCormick
Email:
rsmccormick@btinternet.com
Room: New Academic Building 6.23
Tel. 020-7955-7246
Roger McCormick is the former Project Director of the
Law
and Financial Markets Project at London School of Economics and Political
Science, and a Visiting Professor at LSE. He is also the author of Legal Risk in the Financial Markets
(Oxford University Press, 2nd ed. 2010). He retired from full-time
private legal practice in 2004, having practised law in the City of London for nearly
thirty years.
Research interests
Banking Law.
Legal Risk in Financial Markets
Corporate Finance
External activities
- Arbitrator (LCIA)
- Expert witness
- Consultant
- Founder Editor of Law and Financial Markets Review Member of two
Consultation Panels for the publisher, PLC Member of Consultation Panel
on certain local law issues for EBRD Member of IBA Financial Crisis
"Task Force"
- External Examiner for University College of Dublin
Books
Legal Risk in the Financial Markets (2nd ed. Oxford University Press
2010)
Tracing the origins of legal risk as a phenomenon in
the global financial markets, particularly in the UK market, this book
analyses the different components of legal risk in light of the global
financial crisis, identifying characteristics, examples and management
strategies, and analyses current and recent legal risk concerns as well
as looking to the future. Fully updated from the first edition, this
book includes substantial new material on the global financial crisis
and its effects on legal risk, coverage of responses to the Crisis in
the UK and elsewhere, including G20 proposals and EU initiatives, and
substantial new material on globalisation issues. The book also
considers the impact of case law, statute law and regulatory change on
the management of legal risk.
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Selected articles / chapters in books
The management of legal risk by
financial institutions in the context of Basel II (parts 1 and 2)
(2004) 08 & 09 JIBFL
“Risk allocation – towards a
standardised approach?” Infrastructure Journal, 1999, edition
4.
Project Finance in Central and Eastern
Europe 1998 1 JIBFL 6 (also published in the IBA journal,
International Business Lawyer vol. 26 no. 7 (1998)
