For an international insolvency research project I was invatied to Verona. The group of researchers (from Spain, Germany, Italy and the UK) found some time to visit the Capitolare Library of Verona. It’s a famous institution, dating back to the fifth century A.D. and known for the antiquity and preciousness… Read More »2019-11-doc1 Biblioteca Capitolare Verona
Below, conclusion and recommendations, to be published as contribution to the ACURIA project, which aims to identify legal and procedural strategies, blockages and best practices in the field of undertakings’ insolvency and restructuring law that can be replicated or prevented in different legal and judicial systems, therefore enabling courts to… Read More »2019-10-doc10 Improving the role of courts in quality and effectiveness
Met deze oproep om bij te dragen aan de serie Wessels Insolventierecht, 5e druk, pak ik de draad weer op. De laatste keer had de oproep voor reacties betrekking op Wessels Insolventierecht III. Het boek is in de zomer van 2019 verschenen (blog/2019-06-doc3-nieuwe-druk-wessels-insolventierecht-iii-5e-druk-2019), met input onder meer van een ervaren… Read More »2019-10-doc3 – Iets bijdragen aan serie Wessels Insolventierecht?
All aspects of the life and work of Rembrandt (1606-1669) have been celebrated this year. At least twenty exhibitions have been organised in the Netherlands as well as in many other museums and galleries in the world. It was a golden year for new books and TV programmes, such as… Read More »2019-10-doc2 R.I.P. Rembrandt – 4 October 1669
Onlangs verscheen de 5e druk van Bijzondere overeenkomsten. Het is deel 6 in de Studiereeks Burgerlijk Recht. Het boek staat onder redactie van prof. N.H. Schelhaas en prof. A.J. Verheij, verbonden aan de universiteiten van respectievelijk Rotterdam en Groningen. Het is een studieboek dat al 15 jaar verschijnt en gewijd… Read More »2019-09-doc1 Boek Bijzondere bijeenkomsten 5e druk 2019
On 27 August 2019, the Dutch Minister for Legal Protection (‘Rechtsbescherming’) did send his 11th letter on progress concerning several acts for the overall recast of the Dutch Bankprty Act to Dutch Parliament. On the 5th and last page it introduces the subject ‘International insolvencies’. The following is provided, I… Read More »2019-08-doc4 Netherlands puts ‘international insolvencies’ back on legislative agenda
In June 2019, INSOL International released its ‘Ethical Principles for Insolvency Professionals’. Ethics is about the values that should be lived and worked by and respected by all insolvency professionals while interacting with creditors, judges, consumers of the debtor, its board or shareholders. Ethics is nothing scary, a threatening term… Read More »2019-08-doc3 Insolvency practitioners and ethics
In the matter of Syncreon Group B.V. (and ors) the English High Court on 31 July 2019 ([2019] EWHC 2068 (Ch)) (see my blog of yesterday at blog/2019-08-doc1-scheme-of-arrangement-does-english-court-has-jurisdiction-re-dutch-b.v) a final matter for Falk J to decide relates to the question who will act as the foreign representative. The parties requested… Read More »2019-08-doc2a Scheme of arrangement – who is the foreign representative (+ text)
In the matter of Syncreon Group B.V. (and ors) the English High Court on 31 July 2019 ([2019] EWHC 2068 (Ch)) presented its written reasons for granting an application by Syncreon Group to convene meetings of certain classes of creditors for the purpose of considering a scheme of arrangement. Syncreon… Read More »2019-08-doc1 Scheme of arrangement – Does English court has jurisdiction re Dutch B.V.?
Legislative developments in the Netherlands The Dutch Bankruptcy Act (DBA) first entered into force in 1896. Over the first 100 years amendments were made over the years, the rules governing bankruptcy liquidation fundamentally remained the same. In 1998 special rules to deal with debt restructuring of natural persons have been… Read More »2019-07-doc1 Insolvency – Legislative developments in the Netherlands