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The Loan Market Association and European Leveraged Finance Association published a guide in November 2020 (updated in 2021) entitled Best Practice Guide for Term Sheet Completeness, for use on leveraged finance transactions.

The aim of the Best Practice Guide is to assist Investors in the investment decision by ensuring that leveraged finance term sheets contain as much detail as possible as to key terms. To this end, the Best Practice Guide sets out a list of those provisions identified by investors as being of material importance to their investment decision. The Best Practice Guide presupposes a high level of understanding of leveraged finance terms and jargon.

The Best Practice Guide lists the terms that should be included, and under each term sets out a bullet point list of the various points that the term sheet should cover in relation to that particular term.

This Practice Note lists out the terms referred to in the Best Practice Guide and, under the heading Provision, the related points it suggests are fully set out, along with brief