Secured Finance Transactions, Second Edition provides the legal practitioner, businessman and banker, student and interested observer, with a practical guide to important legal developments in the field of secured finance. It includes key coverage of: the taking of security interests over key business assets; the application of security in the context of a variety of different transaction types; and the characteristics of secured transactions in core emerging and developing markets. This second edition, with 23 chapters, brings together experts on the topic and expands further on the work in the first edition in covering the types of collateral used as security, the variety of transaction types and geographical coverage in emerging markets. An invaluable manual for those already present or entering into the financing arena, this title is a critical support at a time of unprecedented international lending activity.