[PDF] European Corporate Insolvency eBook

Author : Harry Rajak
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 28,55 MB
Release : 1995-09-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780471952398

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Commercial Law Series European Corporate Insolvency A Practical Guide Edited by Harry Rajak, Professor of Law, University of Sussex and Peter Horrocks and Joe Bannister of Lovell White Durrant In response to an expanding European market and increasing economic integration, what progress has the European Union made towards a unified insolvency regime system? The high-profile cases of BCCI and Maxwell have illustrated the dangers of cross-border corporate collapses — with no clear integrated policy emerging from Brussels how can the practitioner know which national regime will apply? Following the recent UK Paramount case, what are the implications for receivers and administrators who retained a company’s employees after their appointment? Anyone involved in pan-European insolvency will be all too aware of these issues — European Corporate Insolvency provides practical solutions from experts operating in all the key European jurisdictions on a daily basis. In addition to the country-by-country coverage, the measures that currently apply at European Union level are also analysed with future developments and draft proposals discussed. Detailed research into the rights and privileges available in the various European insolvency regimes is an essential but time-consuming task for busy practitioners — the innovative matrix index incorporated into European Corporate Insolvency is designed specifically to assist in this essential task by providing detailed comparative access to all the areas covered. Each chapter deals with: sources of insolvency law registration of companies survival of the insolvent corporation liquidation and dissolution augmenting assets public control Law/Finance

Author : Harry Rajak
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 49,31 MB
Release : 1995-09-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780471952398

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Commercial Law Series European Corporate Insolvency A Practical Guide Edited by Harry Rajak, Professor of Law, University of Sussex and Peter Horrocks and Joe Bannister of Lovell White Durrant In response to an expanding European market and increasing economic integration, what progress has the European Union made towards a unified insolvency regime system? The high-profile cases of BCCI and Maxwell have illustrated the dangers of cross-border corporate collapses — with no clear integrated policy emerging from Brussels how can the practitioner know which national regime will apply? Following the recent UK Paramount case, what are the implications for receivers and administrators who retained a company’s employees after their appointment? Anyone involved in pan-European insolvency will be all too aware of these issues — European Corporate Insolvency provides practical solutions from experts operating in all the key European jurisdictions on a daily basis. In addition to the country-by-country coverage, the measures that currently apply at European Union level are also analysed with future developments and draft proposals discussed. Detailed research into the rights and privileges available in the various European insolvency regimes is an essential but time-consuming task for busy practitioners — the innovative matrix index incorporated into European Corporate Insolvency is designed specifically to assist in this essential task by providing detailed comparative access to all the areas covered. Each chapter deals with: sources of insolvency law registration of companies survival of the insolvent corporation liquidation and dissolution augmenting assets public control Law/Finance

Author : Katarzyna Gromek Broc
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Bankruptcy
ISBN : 9789041121233

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For many years, The functioning of the single European market has made it easy for companies to establish themselves and do business throughout the European Union¿unless, that is, they failed. In that case, until recently, a company became subject To The insolvency laws of each individual country. The divergence among these laws seemed far beyond the possibility of harmonisation. During the last few years, however, a twofold development is bringing relief. First, thanks To The European Regulation on Insolvency And The UNCITRAL Model Insolvency Laws, jurisdictional issues can be resolved and determined in cases where more than one country is affected by the insolvency of a particular enterprise. Second¿and far more promising¿stated EU policy goals urging a convergence in thinking on substantive insolvency issues at the Member State level are bearing fruit in reforms that abandon extreme or unusual features and open more common ground. Spearheading these reforms are statutory corporate insolvency procedures that offer an alternative to liquidation¿procedures grouped under the heading of corporate rescue. In this book eleven outstanding European insolvency law specialists, representing both practitioners and academics, investigate significant changes in corporate rescue laws that have either already been implemented or that are on the law reform agenda. The essays include expert analyses and evaluations of corporate rescue laws in each of six EU Member States¿France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, And The United Kingdom¿as well as insightful discussions of the broader European context. Because corporate rescue is the lifeblood of insolvency law, it is likely to be this aspect that has the greatest role to play in the economic and social development of the European Union. For this reason¿and because of the obvious beneficial value of corporate rescue in ensuring fair treatment of creditors and protection of debtors, As well as in reducing the level of stigma attached to insolvency¿Corporate Rescue in Europe will be valued by company lawyers and law firms throughout Europe, and in particular to those handling bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings.

Author : Miguel Virgos
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 39,25 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9041120890

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After many years of negotiations among Member States, a uniform set of private international law rules has been established to determine the conduct of cross-border insolvency proceedings within the European Community. This is the European Insolvency Regulation of May 2000. Although each state still retains its own insolvency law, the regulation greatly reduces the risk of opportunistic behaviour by providing certainty as to which European courts have jurisdiction to open insolvency proceedings and which state?s laws apply, in addition to ensuring the cross-border effectiveness within the EU of the decisions handed down by those courts. This in-depth commentary offers practitioners in international business transactions and litigation a definitive guide to the workings of the Insolvency Regulation. The authors?one of whom co-wrote the official explanatory report on the 1995 Convention on Insolvency Proceedings, a report that still plays a fundamental hermeneutic role?leave no stone unturned in their probing analysis, which explains in detail such elements as the following: relationship with other community legal instruments and international conventions; territorial scope; substantive scope; third-party rights in rem and reservation of title; set-off; contracts relating to immovable property; employment contracts and relationships; payment systems and financial markets; community patents and trademarks; publication and registration; lodgement of claims; and special considerations affecting credit institutions and insurance undertakings. Company lawyers handling insolvency cases and issues will find nothing comparable to this expert work. Its direct practical usefulness is immediately apparent. In addition, however, it stands out as a preeminent work on a critical and hard-won legal instrument (and by extension on the entire field of European insolvency law) and as such is an essential resource for jurists and legal academics.

Author : Gerard McCormack
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 47,58 MB
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 1786433311

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Critically analysing the substantive law of insolvency in the EU countries as a whole, this book carries out horizontal cross-cutting analysis of the data gathered from a study of national insolvency laws. It selects particular areas for detailed discussion and considers the pros and cons of particular legislative solutions.

Author : Gerard McCormack
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 22,26 MB
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 1789908817

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This comprehensive book provides a clear analysis of the European Restructuring Directive, which aims to improve national frameworks governing business restructuring and insolvency as well as to provide debt relief for individuals. Gerard McCormack explores the key aspects of the Directive including the moratorium on litigation and enforcement claims against the financially-troubled business, the provision for new financing, the division of creditors into classes, the introduction of a restructuring plan and the rules for approval of the plan by a court or administrative authority.

Author : Paschalis Paschalidis
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 32,85 MB
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 0191638137

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Freedom of establishment is one of the four fundamental freedoms of the European Union. The principle is that natural persons who are European Union Citizens, and legal entities formed in accordance with the law of a Member State and having its registered office, central administration or principal place of business within the EU, may take up economic activity in any Member State in a stable and continuous form regardless of nationality or mode of incorporation. This book examines the way in which EU law has influenced how national courts in Europe assert jurisdiction in cross-border corporate disputes and insolvencies, and the mechanism which allows them to decide which national law should apply to the substance of the dispute. The book also considers the potential for EU Member States to compete for devising national corporate and insolvency legislation that will attract incorporations or insolvencies. Central to the book is the concept of national choice of law. In considering the impact of freedom of establishment on private international law for corporations, the book uniquely analyses both corporate and insolvency law together, presenting the topic in the broadest possible sense. Importantly, the doctrine of abuse in corporate and insolvency law is covered, raising the question of 'forum shopping' and regulatory competition which underpins the intersection between freedom of establishment and private international law. Through examination of the most recent and leading judgments of the European Court of Justice in Centros and Cadbury Schweppes, the book derives certain conclusions as to the operation of the doctrine of abuse and the limits thereof in the context of freedom of establishment. Being the first in the field to examine the leading ECJ cases of Inspire Art, Sevic and Cartesio regarding the real seat doctrine, the book makes the judgment that there is no incompatibility as such between the doctrine and the freedom of establishment. Ultimately, the book analyses to what extent diversity in the corporate and insolvency laws of the Member States should be preserved, so as to encourage competition between jurisdictions in Europe.

Author : Patryk Filipiak
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 14,79 MB
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9403534117

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In the European Union, the effectiveness of judicial protection granted to a business or consumer in crisis depends on the extent and manner in which court rulings in bankruptcy and restructuring cases are recognised in all Member States. This article-by-article commentary on Regulation (EU) 2015/848 provides expert guidance through the entire course of insolvency proceedings, clearly showing how to solve specific problems that arise in insolvency cases with a cross-border element, including aspects such as jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition and enforceability of judgments and coordination of group of companies’ insolvencies. For any party instituting an insolvency proceeding in an EU Member State, the commentary provides such detailed guidance as the following: identifying the appropriate internationally competent court for filing; terms pursuant to which a judgment can be recognised; duties of an insolvency practitioner (IP); IP’s authority in the territory of another state; IP’s obligations towards creditors in another state; rights of foreign creditors; admissibility of conducting secondary insolvency proceedings; conducting simultaneous insolvency proceedings against the same debtor; permissible forms of contact and cooperation between judges and parties to the proceedings; and conducting proceedings involving a group of companies. An important feature of the commentary highlights the standpoints of lawyers from Central and Eastern Europe, where the commercial judiciary operates in a distinctly different way from that in countries with a well-established market economy system. Interpretation of provisions of the Regulation by lawyers from this part of Europe enhances the scope of legal argument both in the economic sphere and in the sphere of justice. With its detailed and in-depth description of international jurisdiction, recognition, and universal and territorial effects of insolvency proceedings, this practical book will be welcomed by counsel to business persons conducting international activity, trustees in bankruptcy, tax advisers, court enforcement officers, academics dealing with insolvency law, banks dealing with the collection of receivables, and debt collection companies. In addition, as a contribution to the debate on the optimal model for the international consequences of insolvency proceedings, its discussion of issues related to national jurisdiction, bankruptcy and restructuring of groups of companies, and international judicial cooperation will be particularly valuable for researchers.

Author : Gert-Jan Boon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1505 pages
File Size : 46,28 MB
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 019256112X

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This edited volume is based on the European Law Institute's (ELI) project 'Rescue of Business in Insolvency Law'. The project ran from 2013 to 2017 under the auspices of the ELI and was conducted by Bob Wessels and Stephan Madaus, who were assisted by Gert-Jan Boon. The study sought to design (elements of) a legal framework that will enable the further development of coherent and functional rules for business rescue in Europe. This includes certain statutory procedures that could better enable parties to negotiate solutions where a business becomes financially distressed. Such a framework also includes rules to determine in which procedures and under which conditions an enforceable solution can be imposed upon creditors and other stakeholders despite their lack of consent. The project had a broad scope, and extended to consider frameworks that can be used by (non-financial) businesses out of court, and in a pre-insolvency context. Part I of this book, the ELI Instrument as approved by the ELI Council and General Assembly, features 115 recommendations on a wide variety of themes affected by the rescue of financially distressed businesses, such as the legal rules for professions and courts, treatment and ranking of creditors' claims, contract, corporate and labour law as well as laws relating to transaction avoidance. Part II consists of national reports that sketch the legal landscape in 13 States and of an 'Inventory Report on International Recommendations from Standard-Setting Organisations', both of which provided insight for the drafting of the Instrument. This volume is designed to assist those involved in a process of law reform and those setting standards for soft law in the business rescue context.