Contents: Preface
Part I: Introduction to corporate insolvency law
1. The financial context of insolvency
2. The roots and history of insolvency law
3. The institutional setting
Part II: Liquidation, receivership and distribution of assets
4. Liquidation
5. Administrative receivership
6. Gathering and distributing assets and dividends
Part III: Rescue procedures
7. Administration
8. Management of companies in distress and cvas
9. Restructuring procedures
Part IV: Investigating and suppressing misconduct
10. Directors' duties
11. Malpractice before and during liquidation (and administration)
12. Adjustment or avoidance of prior transactions
13. Criminal offences
14. Disqualification and personal liability
Part V: Cross-border insolvency law
15. The theoretical underpinnings of cross-border insolvency law
16. The international and European frameworks for cross-border insolvency law
17. The domestic framework for cross-border insolvency cases
Index.