Jan-Hendrik Röver is a managing partner of Asset Capital Partners, an investment banking firm with offices in Munich and Moscow. Previously he headed the equity funds and asset based mezzanine group in the Project and Asset Based Financing division of Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG, Munich. For several years he worked in the legal department of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London. There he was involved in the drafting of a model law on secured transactions (1994), which is used by central and eastern European countries for the reform of their security laws. Dr Rover studied law in Bonn, Geneva, Strasbourg, Munich, Speyer and at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is dually qualified as an attorney in Germany and a barrister in England and Wales. His book on comparative law (Vergleichende Prinzipien dinglicher Sicherheiten, Munich 1999) was awarded both the Jean Rey prize and the Bruno Heck prize.

Undoubtedly fulfils the needs of those seeking a detailed account of secured lending laws in Eastern Europe and is certainly practical in its focus...Dr Röver has produced a work which contains considerable insights into the process and outcomes of law reform efforts and in that respect this is a book which is deserving of a broader audience than those who toil in the field of secured lending.

• PART I: APPROACHING THE SUBJECT; PART II: REFERENCE SYSTEMS OF SECURED TRANSACTIONS LAW; PART III: PRINCIPLES OF SECURED TRANSACTIONS LAWS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE; APPENDICES

Jan-Hendrik Röver is a managing partner of Asset Capital Partners, an investment banking firm with offices in Munich and Moscow. Previously he headed the equity funds and asset based mezzanine group in the Project and Asset Based Financing division of Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG, Munich. For several years he worked in the legal department of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London. There he was involved in the drafting of a model law on secured transactions (1994), which is used by central and eastern European countries for the reform of their security laws. Dr Rover studied law in Bonn, Geneva, Strasbourg, Munich, Speyer and at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is dually qualified as an attorney in Germany and a barrister in England and Wales. His book on comparative law (Vergleichende Prinzipien dinglicher Sicherheiten, Munich 1999) was awarded both the Jean Rey prize and the Bruno Heck prize.

Undoubtedly fulfils the needs of those seeking a detailed account of secured lending laws in Eastern Europe and is certainly practical in its focus...Dr Röver has produced a work which contains considerable insights into the process and outcomes of law reform efforts and in that respect this is a book which is deserving of a broader audience than those who toil in the field of secured lending.

• PART I: APPROACHING THE SUBJECT; PART II: REFERENCE SYSTEMS OF SECURED TRANSACTIONS LAW; PART III: PRINCIPLES OF SECURED TRANSACTIONS LAWS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE; APPENDICES