Professor Matthias Haentjens (University of Leiden) writes the following re the book ‘EU Banking and Insurance Insolvency‘, Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 2017, authored and edited by Gabriel Moss QC, Bob Wessels and Matthias Haentjens: ‘With only little exaggeration, it might be contended that there has been no other area… Read More »2017-04-doc1 EU Banking and Insurance Insolvency, 2nd. ed, 2017
In November 2016 a proposal for a Restructuring Directive was published two weeks ago. Officially it has a much longer titel: ‘Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on preventive restructuring frameworks, second chance and measures to increase the efficiency of restructuring, insolvency and discharge… Read More »2017-03-doc7 What’s a Pifor?
The Conference of European Restructuring and Insolvency Law (CERIL) is an independent non-profit, non-partisan, self-supporting organisation of approximately 75 lawyers and other restructuring and insolvency practitioners, law professors and (insolvency) judges committed to the improvement of restructuring and insolvency laws and practices in the European Union and in its Member… Read More »2017-03-doc6 CERIL
The 11th José María Cervelló Business Law Prize aims to promote legal study and research, and to facilitate access to the LLM courses of IE Law School for people who do not have the necessary financial resources. The IE Law School (which used to be named Instituto de Empresa) and… Read More »2017-02-doc11 José María Cervelló Business Law Prize
The book of Peter Mankowski, Michael Müller, Jessica Schmidt, EuInsVO 2015. Europäische Insolvenzverordnung 2015. Kommentar, München: Verlag C.H. Beck, 2016, shortly reviewed by me and published in European Company Law Journal, February 2017. See: www.kluwerlawonline.com/abstract.php?area=Journals&id=EUCL2017006
Een ‘Policy Brief’ met ‘vier stappen naar efficiënte insolventiewetgeving’ werd medio januari door het Centraal Planbureau (CPB) gepubliceerd, zie www.cpb.nl/publicatie. Op de omslag van het advies van deze belangrijke economische adviseur van regering en parlement staat de kern van het voorstel: verstevig positie management; beperk recht schuldeisers. Er zijn diverse… Read More »2017-02-doc3 Policy Brief CPB – wat moet je ermee?
The European Parliamentary Financial Services Forum (EPFSF) (see www.epfsf.org) facilitates and strengthens the exchange of information on financial services and Europe’s financial markets between the financial industry and Members of the European Parliament. On January 25, 2017 a lunch event on “Capital Markets Union (CMU): Insolvency Law Chapter” was organised.… Read More »2017-02-doc2 Notes for EP on proposal Restructuring Directive
Bruce Leonard, one of the most influential and respected lawyers in the field of international insolvency law, has passed away. Bruce has been an esteemed lawyer in Canada, but non-Canadians know him best as the auctor intellectualis, founder and chair for many years of the International Insolvency Institute (III). III… Read More »2017-01-doc10 Passing of Bruce Leonard
Pleased to share this invitation. Since November 2016 I am writing the 4th edition of my book Wessels International Insolvency Law: Part II European Insolvency Law. The first part of this edition: International Insolvency Law: Part I Global Perspectives on Cross-Border Insolvency Law has already been published at the end… Read More »2017-01-doc12 Int’l Insolvency Law Bibliography 2017
With great sadness I inform about the death of Stephen Adamson CBE. He is an insolvency veteran from England, but with global experience. See below, his obituary from Global Restructuring Review of 10 January 2017. I learned he died in October last year. In the 90s I was a young… Read More »2017-01-doc5 Passing of Stephen Adamson