Prof. em. Ian F. Fletcher QC (hc) Obituary With great sadness I report the passing away of a dear friend and colleague, Ian Fletcher, on 21 July 2018. He was 74. I will commemorate him on another occasion more fully, but I wish to express here that in particular the world of international insolvency law has lost a giant. I… Read More »2018-07-doc3 Passing away of prof. Ian F. Fletcher
During 2016 and 2017 researchers of universities or research-institutes of Genoa, Sofia, Prague, Mainz, Riga, Valencia, Amsterdam and Glasgow have developed best practices in cross border cases for the survival of distressed companies. The project was co-funded by the Action grants programme to support judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters of the European Commission. Aligning with a practical comparative… Read More »2018-06-doc8 Applying EU Insolvency Regualtion in Practice
The book shortly announced here was published for the first time in 2002. The second edition appeared in 2011, and now, 7 years later, the third edition is published: Transaction Avoidance in Insolvencies, mainly authored by Rebecca Parry, James Ayliffe QC, and Sharif Shivji, published by Oxford University Press (ISBN 978 0 19 879340 3). Significant developments have found their… Read More »2018-06-doc7 Book on Transaction avoidance in insolvency
In July 2018 the fourth edition will be published by the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) of the book European Union Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings: An Introductory Analysis. The first edition dates from 2003, the third from 2010. The new edition I have written with my Leiden colleague Ilya Kokorin, lecuturer company and insolvency law. The book describes the key points… Read More »2018-06-doc5 American Bankruptcy Institute publishes book on EU Insolvency Regulation (Recast)
The Asian Business Law Institute (ABLI), which started in 2016, is an institute based in Singapore. It initiates, conducts and facilitates research and produces authoritative texts with a view to providing practical guidance in the field of Asian legal development and promoting the convergence of Asian business laws. Since last year I am involved in their work related to restructuring… Read More »2018-06-doc4 Privacy protection in Asia and the EU
Enige tijd geleden ben ik gestart met de bewerking en actualisering van alle tien delen in de serie Wessels Insolventierecht. Dat wordt dan de 5e druk van de serie. Deo volente, hoop ik deze tussen 2018 en 2022 te voltooien. Na bijna 20 jaar was het tijd om enkele bescheiden wijzigingen door te voeren. Ik noem kort: versterking privaatrechtelijke inbedding,… Read More »2018-05-doc3 Start bewerking serie Wessels Insolventierecht
For IEEI in Athens last week, I gave 2 presentations. One on Business rescue in Europe and a short overview of the legislative developments re the Recalibration of Dutch Bankruptcy Act. See some notes below. Introduction The Dutch Bankruptcy Act dates from 1896. It contains 3 proceedings: bankruptcy liquidation (faillissement), suspension of payments (surseance van betaling) and, since 1998, debt… Read More »2018-05-doc2 Two lectures for IEEI in Athens
The EU Insolvency Regulation (Recast) (848/2015) applies since June 2016 to 26 member states (all, except Denmark). In these states more than 100 different collective insolvency proceedings can be used, by natural persons or by companies. Some countries only provide for one such insolvency proceeding (Bulgaria, Croatia), in other countries two proceedings can be opened (Estonia) or three (The Netherlands,… Read More »2018-04-doc3 Harmonising security rights in the EU?
The power of trends in international insolvency law Bob Wessels, Professor emeritus of International Insolvency Law, University of Leiden, The Netherlands [could not attach this comment to my blogs 2018-03-doc2 and 2018-03-doc3, so here it finally is] 1 The Oi Brasil case has been, without doubt, one of the most complex international insolvency cases of the last two years, involving… Read More »2018-03-doc3bis No attachment, just pasted: comment on NYC SDNY case Oi Brasil Coop – Aurelius
Corporate groups: bringing insolvency law and corporate law together Below the text of an editorial, to appear in the first issue of 2018 of European Company Law (a Kluwer Law International journal). Corporate groups are an ensemble of companies that act in concert. From an economic perspective, they represent one enterprise and an efficient administration of insolvency proceedings related to… Read More »2018-03-doc1 Corporate law – insolvency law