Cross-Border Insolvency: Principles and Practice

This new work provides an in-depth commentary on English cross-border insolvency law, covering all the different regimes using a comparative approach.

It offers practitioners and policy makers a comprehensive research resource, exploring the strengths and weaknesses of each regime and discussing how the law might evolve in future.

• Provides a rigorous evaluation of the different regimes for handling crossborder default under English law
• Helps clarify the similarities and differences
• Covers both general English cross-border insolvency law and the specialised regimes applicable to regulated entities
• Looks at the jurisdiction of the English court to commence insolvency proceedings
• Examines recognition and enforcement by the English court
• Considers the reliefs that may be obtained from the English court
• Offers recommendations for how the law should change
• Includes all applicable English and foreign case-law, in particular, EU, US and other common law jurisdictions