Current Issues in Cross-Border Insolvency and Reorganizations

This important new work, undertaken by the Insolvency and Creditors' Rights Committee of the International Bar Association's Section on Business Law, gathers together a critical assessment of some of the most pressing current issues in cross-border insolvency and reorganization, under the following headings: The Proposed European Community Insolvency Convention; Comparative Analysis of Chapter 11 with the UK Administration System; Maxwell Communication: New Aspects of Cooperation in International Insolvency; the Olympia & York Reorganization: Parallel International Reorganization Proceedings; Treatment of International Insolvency Issues in Japan; Cross-Border Insolvency Issues in Canada; Aspects of International Insolvency Administration in Germany; Practical Problems in Cross-Border Insolvencies; Recognition of Foreign Insolvency and Legal Proceedings in Italy; the New Insolvency Regimes in Russia And The CIS; Shareholder Liability, Consolidation and Pooling; the Model International Insolvency Cooperation Act; Effects of Foreign Bankruptcy Judgments and Power of Foreign Receivers A French Perspective. The editors have gathered an impressive team of insolvency experts from Canada, Italy, Australia, Germany, Japan, Russia, UK And The EC, To develop a text for practitioners. it is a comparative work, and addresses developments necessitated by BCCI, Maxwell, and Olympia & York. Appendices set out the Model International Insolvency Cooperation Act in several languages.Leonard, E. Bruce is the author of 'Current Issues in Cross-Border Insolvency and Reorganizations' with ISBN 9781853339585 and ISBN 185333958X.