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While the harmonisation of insolvency law in the European Union (EU) has been a top priority on the European institutions’ agenda in the last decade, this endeavour has been slow and has often met...

Due to the international spread of COVID-19, an increasing number of businesses are in the vicinity of insolvency. Others, because of this pandemic, have already gone insolvent. Unfortunately, the...

Striving to manage the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, the Lithuanian government announced a 3-month quarantine throughout the country on 16 March 2020. This meant severe business restrictions or even a...

In May 2020, I wrote on this Blog on whether India should consider introducing pre-packaged insolvencies (‘pre-packs’) into its formal insolvency framework as an additional tool to resolve COVID-19...

In 2017, Singapore adopted sweeping reforms to its insolvency regime aimed at increasing Singapore’s attractiveness as a regional restructuring hub. Central to these reforms is the transplantation (...

On May 17, 2020, the Indian Finance Minister announced a one-year suspension on the initiation of new proceedings under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 (‘IBC’), stating that an ordinance...

On April 28, the Spanish Government approved Royal Decree-Law 16/2020 (‘RDL 16/2020’), passing a series of insolvency, refinancing, corporate and procedural measures. The purpose of the legislation,...

In wake of the COVID-19 pandemic various countries are taking steps to modify the application of their insolvency laws. Many countries have taken steps to prevent the initiation of insolvency...

As with many countries trying to handle the current COVID-19 pandemic (on which see already this comparative analysis by Aurelio Gurrea-Martínez), and as but one measure to limit the economic fall-...

Just a month ago, the Federal Reserve pumped USD 75b into the financial markets on 15 September and the two following days. This extraordinary measure was taken to address a sudden spike in the so-...

On 13 April 2017, the German Parliament enacted a ‘Statute for a Simplified Treatment of Group Insolvencies’. It will enter into force on 21 April 2018 and will supplement the prescriptions of the...

Introduction On 1 June 2017 the European Commission and Italy reached an agreement ‘in principle’ on the recapitalization of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS). A mere week later, the Single...

Insolvency law is at the center of many important issues arising in the current context of economic stagnation, the crisis of the banking sector in some EU member States and the corporate debt crisis...

In this paper, we document a slowdown of entrepreneurial activity following the adoption of fraudulent transfer laws in the United States. Fraudulent transfers are viewed legally in two ways: actual...

This post comes to us from Jones Day. It has been co-authored by Ian F. Lupson, Barnaby C. Stueck, Tyrone R. Childress. On 1 August 2016, six years after it received Royal Assent, the UK Third...

The now famous Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union (‘TEU’) provides that, after receiving a Member State’s notification of the intention to withdraw from the EU, the EU will negotiate with...

I. Introduction This paper gives a very short summary of my forthcoming book (Principles of Cross-Border Insolvency Law, Intersentia 2017). It deals with a fascinating question: what are the...

The design of bankruptcy law may have a significant impact on people´s access to finance, the asset and capital structure of firms, and the level of innovation and entrepreneurship in a country. For...