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This is an indispensable and practical overview of the functions and liabilities of the insolvency practitioner (IP), bringing together the expertise of insolvency practitioners and specialist lawyers. It considers the circumstances in which IPs are appointed, their duties and their powers, before offering a detailed investigation into their potential professional liabilities, as well as in-depth guidance to practitioners and advisers as to how claims might be framed and defended. Utilising kno...

The Asian Financial Crisis dramatically illustrated the vulnerability of financial markets in emerging, transitional, and advanced economies. In response, international organizations insisted that legal reforms could help protect markets from financial breakdowns. Sitting at the nexus between the legal system and the market, corporate bankruptcy law ensures that the casualties of capitalism are treated in an orderly way. Halliday and Carruthers show how global actors—including the IMF, World Ban...

Debtors' prisons might sound like something out of a Dickens novel, but what most Americans do not realize is that they are alive and well in a new and startling form. Today more than 20 percent of the prison population is incarcerated for financial reasons such as failing to pay a fine. This alarming trend not only affects the poor, who are hit particularly hard, but also ensnares the millions of self-identified middle-class people who are struggling to make ends meet. All across the country...

Whether you're looking for a solid grounding in insolvency law and practice or to advance to JIEB level, this book helps you succeed in your CPI exams by providing you with a choice of interactive materials for all stages of your studies.

Due to the absence of due process and other procedural guarantees generally offered by judicial enforcement, informal debt collection practices (IDCPs) can become abusive, harming both consumers and the economy by threatening consumers’ physical, psychological, and economic wellbeing; exposing law-abiding debt collectors to unfair competition; undermining the financial system, and negatively impacting social peace by resorting to criminal activity. The need to control and harmonize IDCPs surface...

One of the key elements of the Maastricht Treaty on European Union is the idea of European Citizenship, which complements one of the foundations of the Community - the free movements of persons. This book takes a post-Maastricht look at the practical implications of the drive towards a European Citizen by examining all issues related to free movement. The author explains the complex and confusing concepts of free movement of persons and examines the practical implications of the Maastricht Treat...

Should you choose a formal insolvency or would a restructuring be more appropriate for a company's final steps? Insolvency and Restructuring Manual (4th Ed) guides you through the considerations and steps in each avenue, examining the main formal processes including liquidation, administration, receivership, company voluntary arrangements and schemes of arrangement. The new Fourth Edition covers: - The new Part 26A scheme of arrangement (or "restructuring plan"), standalone moratorium and prov...

At exactly 4:06 p.m. on July 18, 2013, the city of Detroit filed for bankruptcy. It was the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history-the Motor City had finally hit rock bottom. But what led to that fateful day, and how did the city survive the perilous months that followed? In Detroit Resurrected, Nathan Bomey delivers the inside story of the fight to save Detroit against impossible odds. Bomey, who covered the bankruptcy for the Detroit Free Press, provides a gripping account of the tre...

This book will include everything readers need to know in order to determine whether bankruptcy is the only way out, if it is-how to decide between chapter 7 and chapter 13, how to go about filing, and how to restore their credit once they've filed. In addition the book will cover all questions most first-time filers would never think to ask, but need to know the answers to, such as: What debts are non-dischargable? What assets are exempt from liquidation? What kinds of property can be legally t...

'Modern society has eliminated the inhumane debtors' prisons for handling the insolvent debtor and in their stead have enacted benign modern laws in the area of bankruptcy. Unscrupulous merchants now use these benign laws for fraudulent purposes.' Based on case studies in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela, this is the first publication to provide recommendations about the important legal and institutional issues that are involved in bankruptcy reform in a critical region of the global eco...

Im Jahr 2001 wurde Griechenlands Antrag auf Aufnahme in die Eurozone akzeptiert, was fur das Land dem Eintritt ins Schlaraffenland gleichkam. Aber die Jahre des wirtschaftlichen Wohlstands fuhrten zu hemmungslosen Ausgaben, billigen Krediten und dem Versaumnis, finanzpolitische Reformen einzuleiten, was das Land direkt in die Pleite fuhrte ? und ganz Europa in die Finanzkrise. Der Bloomberg-Marktanalyst Matthew Lynn zeigt, wie es so weit kommen konnte. Seite fur Seite liefert er, gleich einem Th...