Debt Restructuring: Jurisdictional Comparisons is the essential reference guide for financial institutions, legal professionals and investors. Covering major jurisdictions worldwide it provides a clear overview of the law and regulation governing debt restructuring in each one, and is structured to allow easy comparisons between jurisdictions.
- Offers a well organised starting point for international reference
- Covers the law in major jurisdictions around the world
- Uses a reader-friendly Q&A format that enables quick and easy crossjurisdictional comparisons
- Includes contributions from leading local practitioners who are experts in the field
- Addresses the key questions of multinational organisations
- Explains what restructuring proceedings or schemes aimed at avoiding insolvency liquidation are available in each country
- Sets out the scope, conditions, procedures and outcomes of the various proceedings/schemes
- Covers areas such as conditions for admission; can rights of creditors be modified without their consent; provisions for payment of creditors; role of the court or other public authority; main steps for the proceeding; stay of creditors’ enforcement actions; documentation to be filed; joint proceeding; consequences of successful completion
- Provides straightforward, practical commentary on each jurisdiction and the respective legal systems
