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Maritime Liens in a European Insolvency: Man Overboard?

In recent years, a few illustrious bankruptcies in the maritime industry have revealed the legal issues that arise when maritime law and cross-border insolvency law come into conflict. Most notable...

11 October 2021

Warren de Waegh

Abuse of Companies through Choice of Incorporation?

Can the choice of place of incorporation constitute an abuse of the corporate form? The case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) is telling for...

26 November 2019

Martin Gelter

Lécia Vicente

COMI under European and American Insolvency Law

The first major legal instrument dealing with cross-border insolvencies in the European Union (EU) has been the European Insolvency Regulation (EIR 2000). It was adopted in 2000 and entered into...

5 February 2019

Bob Wessels

Ilya Kokorin

Vis Attractiva Concursus Throughout the EU? New Ruling of the Hungarian Curia on the Jurisdiction for Post-opening Actions Against an Insolvent Debtor

A recent decision of the Hungarian Curia (BH 2017.97) concerned an important question of European private international law: what is the effect of the opening of insolvency proceedings on jurisdiction to...

31 October 2017

Zoltan Fabok

Conference On European Restructuring And Insolvency Law Founded

The Conference of European Restructuring and Insolvency Law (CERIL) has recently been founded as an independent non-profit, non-partisan, self-supporting organisation of approximately 75 lawyers and other restructuring and insolvency practitioners,...

28 March 2017

Bob Wessels

The Future of Restructuring Law in Europe: Greater Harmonisation, but at What Cost?

The European Commission has published its “Proposal for a Directive ... on preventive restructuring frameworks, second chance and measures to increase the efficiency of restructuring, insolvency and discharge...

13 December 2016

Horst Eidenmüller

Kristin van Zwieten

The German Discussion on the Introduction of a Pre-insolvency Regime

In March 2014, the European Commission published a Recommendation for a new approach to business failure and insolvency. The objective of this Recommendation was to encourage...

20 June 2016

Reinhard Bork

A Comprehensive Economic and Legal Analysis of the Effects of Europe’s Fragmented Insolvency Laws

This post comes to us from Andrew Wilkinson and Paul Bagon of Weil, Gotshal & Manges.Together with AFME and Frontier Economics, we have produced...

15 March 2016

Weil, Gotshal & Manges

Maritime Liens in a European Insolvency: Man Overboard?

Abuse of Companies through Choice of Incorporation?

COMI under European and American Insolvency Law

Vis Attractiva Concursus Throughout the EU? New Ruling of the Hungarian Curia on the Jurisdiction for Post-opening Actions Against an Insolvent Debtor

Conference On European Restructuring And Insolvency Law Founded

The Future of Restructuring Law in Europe: Greater Harmonisation, but at What Cost?

The German Discussion on the Introduction of a Pre-insolvency Regime

A Comprehensive Economic and Legal Analysis of the Effects of Europe’s Fragmented Insolvency Laws

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