Principles of international insolvency

• Abbreviations
• Maps and Charts

Part 1: General

• 1. The Topic
• 2. World insolvency law in eleven pages: The triple polarisation
• 3. Policies, causes and effects
• 4. Historical background
• 5. Comparison of work-outs, judicial rescues and liquidations
• 6. Indicators of insolvency law
• 7. Legal families of the world

Part 2: Insolvency topics

• 8. Entry criteria for insolvency
• 9. Stays of creditors
• 10. Management of insolvency proceedings
• 11. Claims and the bankruptcy ladder of priorities
• 12. Bankruptcy ladder of priorities: pari passu and subordinated claims
• 13. Trusts: policies and reception
• 14. Classification of trusts and functional equivalents
• 15. Tests for trusts
• 16. Non-consensual trusts
• 17. Tracing of property on insolvency
• 18. Security interests
• 19. Enforcement of security interests on insolvency
• 20. Insolvency set-off
• 21. Contracts and leases
• 22. Contracts and leases: jurisdiction examples
• 23. Assets of the estate and forfeitures (anti-deprivation) 
• 24. Avoidance of preferences: Summary and survey
• 25. Undervalue transactions and payments as preferences
• 26. Security interests as preferences
• 27. Preferences: business transfers; financial assistance to buy own shares
• 28. Preferences: guarantors; attachments; extortionate credit
• 29. Preferences: suspect periods; defences; recapture; deterrence
• 30. Director liability: policies and summary
• 31. Director liability: taxes; fraudulent and wrongful trading
• 32. Director liability: duties to file
• 33. Director liability: negligent management and other liabilities
• 34. Director liability: de facto directors, protections
• 35. Shareholder liability and groups
• 36.  Lender liability

Part 3:  Practice: Work-outs and reorganisation

• 37. Private restructuring agreements ("work-outs") 
• 38. Workouts: standstills, bank support agreements; security
• 39. Workouts: exchanges; sales; intercreditor agreements
• 40. Workouts: debt/equity conversions; Newco
• 41. Judicial reorganisation plans
• 42. English-based corporate schemes of arrangement
• 43. Jurisdiction survey of reorganisation plans
• 44. Financing a reorganisation
• 45. Pre-packaged plans

Part 4: Special debtors

• 46. Bank insolvencies
• 47. State insolvency
• 48. Insolvency of individual and other debtors

Part 5: Conflict of laws

• 49. Insolvency conflict of laws: the topic
• 50. Insolvency jurisdiction
• 51. Recognition of foreign insolvency representatives and stays
• 52. Survey of international recognition of foreign representative and stays
• 53. Applicable law: set-off, security interests, trusts
• 54. Applicable law: contracts, unsecured creditors, preferences
• 55. Applicable law: procedure, plans, directors
• 56. Applicable law: groups, discovery, penalties
• 57. International insolvency treaties
• 58. EU insolvency regulation: history and summary
• 59. EU insolvency regulation: scope and jurisdiction 
• 60. EU insolvency regulation: applicable law 
• 61. EU insolvency regulation: recognition of judgments, publication, gap creditors
• 62. EU insolvency regulation: secondary insolvency proceedings
• 63. EU insolvency regulation: lodging claims, groups, final provisions
• 64. Countries applying EU insolvency regulation principles generally
• 65. EU bank and insurance insolvency directives
• 66. Uncitral model law on cross-border insolvency
• 67. Methodology appendix: the working out of a comparative law methodology

• Brexit Appendix
• Index