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Corporate Insolvency Law :Perspectives and Principals » (1st Edition)

Authors: Vanessa Finch
ISBN-13: 9780521626859, ISBN-10: 0521626854
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: September 2006
Edition: 1st Edition

This interdisciplinary examination of corporate insolvency law assesses recent reforms and anticipates new legislation.

	Acknowledgements
	Table of cases
	Table of statutes and other instruments
	List of abbreviations
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Agendas and objectives
1	The roots of corporate insolvency law	7
2	Aims, objectives and benchmarks	25
Pt. II	The context of corporate insolvency law: financial and institutional
3	Insolvency and corporate borrowing	59
4	Corporate failure	120
5	Insolvency practitioners	145
Pt. III	The quest for turnaround
6	Rescue	187
7	Informal rescue	211
8	Receivers and their role	234
9	Administration	273
10	Company arrangements	324
11	Rescuing rescue	358
Pt. IV	Gathering and distributing the assets
12	Gathering the assets: the role of liquidation	369
13	The pari passu principle: when everyone in equal?	421
14	Bypassing pari passu	450
Pt. V	The impact of corporate insolvency
15	Directors in troubled times	495
16	Employees in distress	553
	Conclusion	573
	Bibliography	580
	Index	609