1 Getting started: Why use a syndicated loan?
2 Basic principles of syndicated lending: financing through the risk spectrum
3 Enhancing the credit
4 Interactions with other creditors: subordination and intercreditor arrangements
5 Adding bells and whistles - letters of credit and other facility types
6 Agreeing the business deal
7 How to sell the deal
8 When do lenders have to lend?
9 Making the loan: the theory and mechanics of syndicated lending
10 Trading the loans and commitments
11 Protecting the credit without strangling the business
12 When can the lenders get their money back and what if they don't want it?
13 Syndicate democracy in good times and bad
14 Defaults and restructurings: what happens when it all goes wrong
15 Variations on a theme: key issues in different European jurisdictions (France, Germany, Italy)
16 How things are different outside Europe - Untied States and Asia
17 The future.