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    Principles of international insolvency / Philip R. Wood, BA (Cape Town), MA (Oxon), Hon LLD (Lund), CBE, QC (Hon).

    • Title:Principles of international insolvency / Philip R. Wood, BA (Cape Town), MA (Oxon), Hon LLD (Lund), CBE, QC (Hon).
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    • Author/Creator:Wood, Philip (Philip R.), 1942- author.
    • Published/Created:London : Thomson Reuters, trading as Sweet & Maxwell, 2019.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Conflict of laws--Bankruptcy.
      Debtor and creditor.
    • Edition:Third edition.
    • Description:xxv, 919 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color maps, color charts ; 24 cm
    • Series:Law and practice of international finance series ; v. 1.
    • Notes:Includes index.
    • ISBN:9780414044708 hardcover
      0414044703 hardcover
    • Contents:Preface
      The topic
      World insolvency law in 11 pages : the triple polarisation
      Policies, causes and effects
      Historical background
      Comparison of work-outs, judicial rescues and liquidations
      Indicators of insolvency law
      Legal families of the world
      Entry criteria for insolvency
      Stays of creditors
      Management of insolvency proceedings
      Claims and the bankruptcy ladder of priorities
      Bankruptcy ladder of priorities : pari passu and subordinated claims
      Trusts : policies and reception
      Classification of trusts and functional equivalents
      Tests for trusts
      Non-consensual trusts
      Tracing of property on insolvency
      Security interests
      Enforcement of security interests on insolvency
      Insolvency set-off
      Contracts and leases
      Contracts and leases : jurisdictional examples
      Assets of the estate and forfeitures (anti-deprivation)
      Avoidance of preferences : summary and survey
      Undervalue transactions and payments as preferences
      Security interests, preferences, set-off
      Preferences : business transfers, financial assistance to buy own shares
      Preferences : guarantors, attachments, extortionate credit
      Preferences : suspect periods, defences, recapture, deterrence
      Director liability : policies and summary
      Director liability : taxes, fraudulent and wrongful trading
      Director liability : duties to file
      Director liability : negligent management and other liabilities
      Director liability : de facto directors, protections
      Shareholder liability and groups
      Lender liability
      Private restructuring agreements ("work-outs")
      Workouts : standstills, bank support agreements, security
      Workouts : exchanges, sales, intercreditor agreements
      Workouts : debt/equity conversions; NEWCO
      Judicial reorganisation plans
      English-based corporate schemes of agreement
      Jurisdiction survey of reorganisation plans
      Financing a reorganisation
      Pre-packaged plans
      Bank insolvencies
      State insolvency
      Insolvency of individual and other debtors
      Insolvency conflict of laws : the topic
      Insolvency jurisdiction
      Recognition of foreign insolvency representatives and stays
      Survey of international recognition on foreign representative and stays
      Applicable law : set-off, security interests, trusts
      Applicable law : contracts, unsecured creditors, preferences
      Applicable law : procedure, plans, directors
      Applicable law : groups, discovery, penalties
      International insolvency treaties
      EU insolvency regulation : history and summary
      EU insolvency regulation : scope and jurisdiction
      EU insolvency regulation : applicable law
      EU insolvency regulation : recognition of judgments, publication, gap creditors
      EU insolvency regulation : secondary insolvency proceedings
      EU insolvency regulation : lodging claims, groups, final provisions
      Countries applying EU insolvency regulation principles generally
      EU Bank and insurance insolvency directives
      UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency
      Methodology appendix : the working out of a comparative law methodology.
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