• The UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency was a model law issued by the secretariat of UNCITRAL on 30 May 1997 to assist states in relation to...
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  • relation to cross-border insolvency regimes which were widely adopted were (1) the UNCITRAL Model Law, and (2) the EC Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings...
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  • EC Insolvency Regulation does not seek to harmonise insolvency laws between the different member states. Like the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency...
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    UNCITRAL's official mandate is "to promote the progressive harmonization and unification of international trade law" through conventions, model laws,...
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  • Modified universalism (category Cross-border insolvency)
    universalism broadly underpins the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency, and the EC Insolvency Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings (Council Regulation...
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    179A Insolvency Act 2003, Part XIV Insolvency Act 2003, Part VIII Insolvency Act 2003, section 400(1) "UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency with...
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  • insolvency are said to be insolvent. There are two forms: cash-flow insolvency and balance-sheet insolvency. Cash-flow insolvency is when a person or company...
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    not introduced the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency into domestic legislation. Accordingly, cross-border insolvency cases are still conducted...
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    implemented the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency as the Cross-Border Insolvency Regulations 2006. Re Olympic Airlines SA [2015] UKSC 27, on Regulation...
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  • insolvency laws of a number of common law jurisdictions, similar to bankruptcy in the United States. It functions as a rescue mechanism for insolvent...
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  • strike the company off the register. Under the corporate insolvency laws of a number of common law jurisdictions, where a company has been engaged in misconduct...
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  • Kingdom, only an authorised or licensed insolvency practitioner (IP) may be appointed in relation to formal insolvency procedures. Quite often IPs have an...
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  • The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) is an Indian law which creates a consolidated framework that governs insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings...
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  • insolvency, by virtue of Section 91(2) of the Constitution Act, 1867. It has passed the following statutes as a result: The Bankruptcy and Insolvency...
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  • Australian insolvency law regulates the position of companies which are in financial distress and are unable to pay or provide for all of their debts or...
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  • Insolvency law of Russia mainly includes Federal Law No. 127-FZ "On Insolvency (Bankruptcy)" and Federal Law No. 40-FZ "On Insolvency (Bankruptcy) of...
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    added Chapter 15 (as a replacement for section 304) and deals with cross-border insolvency: foreign companies with US debts. As a threshold matter, bankruptcy...
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  • relinquished. Robert Ramsey and John Head, law professors who both specialise in financial issues, suggest that an insolvent bank should go into receivership rather...
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  • distinguished from the terms "insolvency", illiquidity and "bankruptcy": Default: Debtors have been passed behind the payment deadline on a debt whose payment...
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    RafaƂ. "Cross-border insolvency law in the EU" (PDF). Library Briefing. Library of the European Parliament. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 December...
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  • liquidation. Under UK insolvency law, trading once a company is legally insolvent can trigger several provisions of the Insolvency Act 1986, including:...
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  • the Insolvency Act 1986 In the United Kingdom, see section 166 of the Insolvency Act 1986 In the United Kingdom, see section 170 of the Insolvency Act...
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  • must first go through the appointed Insolvency Practitioner. The creditors will begin to deal with the Insolvency Practitioner and readily accept annual...
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  • Anti-deprivation rule (category Insolvency)
    might pursue: it could favour a nominated party on insolvency could either provide for a specific insolvency-triggered deprivation of its assets in favour...
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  • Financial distress (category Insolvency)
    Z-Score and Zeta Models by Edward Altman Financial Distress, Bankruptcy Law, and the Business Cycle by Javier Suarez and Oren Sussman Insolvency Service website...
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  • under state law, rather than the federal bankruptcy proceedings, including those under chapter 11. Insolvency proceedings under state law, the study stated...
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  • incorporates the Model Law on Cross Border Insolvency drafted by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law. The law provides solutions...
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  • Secured creditor (category Insolvency)
    security against the assets of the debtor and avoid competing for a distribution on liquidation with the unsecured creditors. In most legal systems, secured creditors...
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  • Receivership (category Insolvency)
    charge Liquidator (law) Official receiver See sections 29(2) and 251 of the Insolvency Act 1986 and Article 5(1) of the Insolvency (Northern Ireland)...
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  • insolvency regime under the Fraudulent Dispositions Act (Cap F.60). However, the legislature is currently considering a comprehensive new Insolvency Act...
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