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There are 4 items matching keyword insolvency:
- The Professional Restructuring of Corporate Rescue: Company Voluntary Arrangements and the London Approach (with R. Abbey, P. Aber, E. Skordaki)
Published: ACCA Research Report #45, 1995
Summary: Two insolvency procedures – CVAs and the London Approach – are analyzed and contrasted. Their use is affected by the status positions of the debtors and their relationship to those overseeing the insolvency process.
File size: 842 Kb, 60pp
Keywords: CVA insolvency London Approach - Insolvency Practitioners and Big Corporate Insolvencies (with E. Skordaki)
Published: ACCA Research Report #43, 1995
Summary: An analysis of the rise of a new profession, the insolvency practitioner in the wake of the Insolvency Act 1986 – includes a case study of the Maxwell transnational insolvency.
File size: 672 Kb, 52pp
Keywords: accountants insolvency Insolvency Act 1986 law and accounting lawyers Maxwell - The Vultures Fly East: The Creation and Globalisation of the Distressed Debt Market
Published: Adapting Legal Cultures, 2001
Summary: Corporate insolvency and bankruptcy have given rise to new markets, including global ones, in which lawyers have been key players. This paper examines the role of lawyers in informal restructuring through an analysis of the London Approach and the rise of the distressed debt market.
File size: 271 Kb, 22pp
Keywords: accountants distressed debt globalisation hedge funds insolvency law and accounting lawyers London Approach vulture funds - Normative Bricolage: Informal Rule-Making by Accountants and Lawyers in Mega-Insolvencies (with E. Skordaki)
Published: Global Law Without A State, 1997
Summary: The Maxwell bankruptcy was the first big international insolvency, one that moved into primary proceedings simultaneously in London and New York. This set up a battle between British administration and US Chapter 11. The intervention by certain individuals who had thought about the consequences of such bankruptcies, including lawyers and judges, enabled a private system of law to emerge to handle these
File size: 241 Kb, 23pp
Keywords: accountants bankruptcy globalisation insolvency lawyers legal pluralism Maxwell normative pluralism protocol
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