International Material

Assessing the Effectiveness of and Challenges Facing Chief Restructuring Officers

This special report highlights practical issues that CROs have to deal with before and after their appointment. The report was prepared with the information gathered from an on-line survey as well as from interviews with practitioners from many …

18 May 2017

INSOL International

UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency with Guide to Enactment and Interpretation (2014)

UNCITRAL adopted the Model Law by consensus on 30 May 1997.9 In addition to the 36 States members of UNCITRAL, representatives of 40 observer States and 13 international organizations participated in the deliberations of the Commission and the …

18 May 2017

UNCITRAL

UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Insolvency Law (2005)

The Legislative Guide on Insolvency Law was prepared by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). Its text was adopted by consensus on 25 June 2004 (see annex II). Subsequently, the General Assembly adopted resolution …

18 May 2017

UNCITRAL

Directors in the Twilight Zone - V (2017)

the 5th edition of ‘Directors in the Twilight Zone’. It ably addresses the risks faced by directors, managers, advisors and other third parties who trade companies in the twilight zone of insolvency. The name aptly describes the challenging …

18 May 2017

INSOL International

The World Bank Principles for Effective Insolvency and Creditor/Debtor Regime (2016)

The Principles were originally developed in 2001 in response to a request from the international community in the wake of the financial crises in emerging markets in the late 90s. From 2001 to 2004, the Principles were used to assess country systems …

18 May 2016

The World Bank

Principles and best practices for Insolvency Office Holders

This is an article by Bernard Santen, Jan Adriaanse and Iris Wuisman who led a major project for INSOL Europe to design a set of Principles and Best Practices for Insolvency Office Holders (IOHs) in Europe. This article summarises some of the …

2014

Eurofenix