Corporate Insolvency Law: Perspectives and Principles » (2nd 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;

Part I. Agendas and Objectives:

1. The roots of corporate insolvency law;
2. Aims, objectives and benchmarks;

Part II. The Context of Corporate Insolvency Law: Financial and Institutional:
3. Insolvency and corporate borrowing;
4. Corporate failure;
5. Insolvency practitioners;

Part III. The Quest for Turnaround:
6. Rescue;
7. Informal rescue;
8. Receivers and their role;
9. Administration;
10. Company arrangements;
11. Rescuing rescue;

Part IV. Gathering and Distributing the Assets:
12. Gathering the assets: the role of liquidation;
13. The pari passu principle: when everyone is equal?;
14. By-passing pari passu;

Part V. The Impact of Corporate Insolvency:
15. Directors in troubled times;
16. Employees in distress; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.