The Future of Cross-border Insolvency

The Future of Cross-border Insolvency

Author: Irit Mevorach

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0198782896

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A fresh and insightful guide to post-financial crisis cross-border insolvency, this book interrogates the current regime and sets out a framework for improving its future. In recent decades, and especially since the global financial crisis, a number of important initiatives have focused on developing the mechanisms for managing the insolvency of multinational enterprises and financial institutions. The book considers the effectiveness of the current system and identifies the gaps that could be bridged by adopting certain strategies and tools, to improve the system further. The book first discusses the theoretical debate regarding cross-border insolvency and surveys the strengths and weaknesses of the prevailing method-modified universalism-in its application to both commercial entities and financial institutions, consequently identifying a single set of emerging norms. The book argues that adhering to these norms more robustly would enhance global welfare and produce the best outcomes for businesses and institutions. By drawing upon sources from international law as well as behavioural and economic theory, the book offers a blueprint for meeting the demands of future cross-border insolvencies. It considers how to translate modified universalism into binding international law and how to choose the right instrument for cross-border insolvency as well as the impact that instrument design has on decisions and choices. It explores how to encourage compliance and proposes mechanisms that could potentially overcome, or at least take into account, behavioural biases in decision-making.


Cross-Border Insolvency

Cross-Border Insolvency

Author: Neil Hannan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-08-21

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 9811058768

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This book examines the effect of the adoption of the United Nations Committee on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency in five common law jurisdictions, namely Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. It examines how each of those states has adopted, interpreted and applied the provisions of the Model Law, and highlights the effects of inconsistencies by examining jurisprudence in each of these countries, specifically how the Model Law affects existing principles of recognition of insolvency proceedings. The book examines how the UNCITRAL Guide to enactment of the Model Law has affected the interpretation of each of its articles and, in turn, the courts’ ability to interpret and hence give effect to the purposes of the Model Law. It also considers the ability of courts to refer to amendments made to the Guide after enactment of the Model Law in a state, thereby questioning whether the current inconsistencies in interpretation can be overcome by UNCITRAL amending the Guide.


SEC and CFTC Penalties

SEC and CFTC Penalties

Author: Richard J. Hillman

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2006-03

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 9781422304402

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The SEC & Commodity Futures Trading Comm. (CFTC) impose penalties, disgorgements, & restitution on proven & alleged violators of the securities & futures laws, respectively. The GAO has issued a number of previous reports on agency collection efforts & made numerous recommendations for improvement. This report follows up on open issues from the previous reports &: (1) discusses SEC's progress in improving its tracking of penalty & disgorgement collection data; (2) assesses the steps SEC has taken to improve collection program management; (3) evaluates SEC's implementation of the Fair Fund provision in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002; & (4) describes CFTC's actions to address previous recommendations. Charts & tables.