Corporate Insolvency Law: Perspectives and Principles

ISBN-13: 9781107629554 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 836 str.

Vanessa Finch; David Milman

Opis

A new and substantially revised edition which looks critically at the broad effect and conceptual underpinnings of corporate insolvency law.

Spis treści

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 and turnaround professionals; Part III. The Quest for Turnaround: 6. Rescue; 7. Informal rescue; 8. Receivers and their role; 9. Administration; 10. Pre-packaged administrations; 11. Company arrangements; 12. Rethinking rescue; Part IV. Gathering and Distributing the Assets: 13. Gathering the assets: the role of liquidation; 14. The pari passu principle; 15. Bypassing pari passu; Part V. The Impact of Corporate Insolvency: 16. Directors in troubled times; 17. Employees in distress; 18. Cross border insolvency; 19. Conclusion.

O autorze

Finch, Vanessa
Vanessa Finch is a Professor of Law Emeritus at the London School of Economics and Political Science where she taught Insolvency Law, Company Law and Corporate Accountability at undergraduate and Masters level. She has published numerous scholarly articles in the insolvency and corporate law fields and she is a subscriber member of R3 and an Honorary Member of the Insolvency Lawyers' Association. Milman, David
David Milman has studied the subject of corporate insolvency law since undertaking his Ph.D. on the subject in 1976. He has published numerous texts and articles on the subject and is an Honorary Member of the Insolvency Lawyers' Association and a subscriber member of R3. Before moving to the Lancaster University in 2005, he taught at the University of Manchester for 27 years, where he was Dean of the Law School from 1995-7.