Surely Bank Failure will become the definitive work of reference on this vexed subject ... This must be one of the few legal texts around that reads almost like a medieval cautionary tale, albeit a detailed and protracted one, based on thorough and detailed research and also the personal experience and familiarity with the Lehman Brothers matter on the part of the majority of the of the books twenty-two contributors who include main insiders and third party experts. Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, Richmond Green Chambers