The new third edition of Debt Restructuring offers detailed legal analysis of international corporate, banking, and sovereign debt restructuring, from the perspective of creditors and debtors. It provides practical guidance to help practitioners, policy-makers, and academics in the UK and US to understand current developments in debt restructuring, and provides solutions for creditors holding distressed debt and debtor options in a distressed scenario.
The Corporate Debt section includes significant changes to highlight the impact of COVID-19 on restructurings, including: potential grounds for investors/lenders to modify or terminate commitments to fund or support restructurings by invoking material adverse effect or force majeure clauses; unprecedented relief granted by insolvency courts to aid ailing retailers; and challenges facing insolvency courts in making necessary confirmation findings regarding the feasibility of reorganization plans due to market instability. This section also includes the recent adoption of the Part 26A Restructuring Plans and the EU Restructuring Directive.
Amendments to the Bank Resolution section reflect decisions by the Single Resolution Board, and national authority resolution decisions notified to the European Banking Authority. A new sub-section on domestic bank insolvency and liquidation covers the developments under the Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive, and a new chapter on insolvency law relating to Insurance Firms addresses the international debate on a special resolution regime for insurance firms. Other updates include the 2017 code of practice, the 'third country' branch model after Brexit, non-equivalence regarding depositor protection arrangements, and the Resolvability Assessment Framework.
In the Sovereign Debt section, there is detailed coverage of US and UK developments, examining the increased role of sanctions and the possibility of piercing the corporate veil in Stae owned-enterprises, as well as the increased push for domestic laws to be used to curtail litigation. It also covers developments in re-designation and the emergence of the 'pac-man technique' in the context of collective action clauses, as a result of the recent restructurings of Argentina and Ecuador. The impact of COVID-19 on the adoption of the Debt Service Suspension Initiative and the Common Framework are also analysed.
Industry Reviews
This book makes impressive reading ... and will prove very useful for academics and students alike, bringing together a tremendous wealth of expertise in three distinct fields of study in a single volume. * Paula Moffatt, Nottingham Law School (International Insolvency Review, 2017) *
The new second edition of Debt Restructuring ... gives us a detailed legal analysis of international corporate, banking, and sovereign debt restructuring, from the perspective of both creditors and debtors so the book has quite a wide reach and is heavy on detail. The authors set out practical guidance to assist practitioners, policy-makers, researchers and academics to understand current developments in debt restructuring, and provides solutions for creditors holding distressed debt and debtor options in a distressed scenario. We feel it should be compulsory reading for public servants and members Of the judiciary, too. * Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, Richmond Green Chambers. *
This impressive volume combines the efforts of leading academics and practitioners in examining the many facets of debt restructuring. It would not be an exaggeration to state that this is a truly magisterial work, advancing our understanding of both policy and minutiae of debt restructurings. * Hayk Kupelyants, University of Cambridge (JIBLR, vol.32) *
