The working groups meet regularly to discuss problems in the current law and to consider the options for reform.   One or more papers are drafted for each meeting, and are used as a starting point for debate.    The groups are headed by a senior practitioner, assisted by a junior academic, and comprise solicitors, barristers, inhouse lawyers, bankers and others involved in the provision and receipt of finance.

The groups welcome applications from new members.  To apply to join a group complete the form below.

Creation and registration : chair, Georgia Quenby (partner, Reed Smith)

Priorities : chair, Alan Newton (partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer)

Enforcement and insolvency : chair, Sarah Paterson (London School of Economics; consultant, Slaughter & May)

Financial collateral : chair Edward Murray (partner, Allen & Overy)