Vesna Lazić & Steven Stuij 
Recasting the Insolvency Regulation [PDF ebook] 
Improvements and Missed Opportunities

This book comprises contributions relating to the Insolvency Regulation Recast,


which recently entered into force. The authors analyse the changes introduced and


give their views on the improvements that are thereby achieved. In other words, they


assess to what extent the amendments have mitigated the disadvantages of the previous


Insolvency Regulation.






Three of the chapters concentrate on the issues pertaining to jurisdiction, such as


the problem of forum shopping by re-locating the debtor’s centre of main interests.


Furthermore, the extent to which the parties have the freedom to contract within


the framework of the Insolvency Regulation Recast is discussed. Also, the relevance


and consequences of recent developments in corporate law for the current crossborder
insolvency framework, as well as the jurisdictional issues concerning approval


requirements areamongst the matters addressed. Aside from the jurisdictional matters,


the question of the law applicable to so-called ‘avoidance actions’ is analysed and crossborder


cooperation between national authorities in the field of insolvency is touched


upon. To conclude, this book covers a range of specific and intriguing topics brought


up by the Insolvency Regulations Recast.






This third volume in the Short Studies in Private International Law Series is primarily


aimed at legal academics dealing with cross-border insolvency, but it will also prove


useful to insolvency judges and practitioners, as well as those specialised in financial


and fiscal law. Finally, advanced students as well as those with a general interest in
insolvency law will also find it of added value.





Vesna Lazić is Senior Researcher at the T.M.C. Asser Institute and Associate Professor


of Private Law at Utrecht University in The Netherlands.
Steven Stuij is an expert in


private international law and Ph D Candidate at the Erasmus School of Law, Rotterdam.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Insolvency Forum Shopping, Revisited.- Chapter 2. Contracting around insolvency jurisdiction: private ordering in European insolvency jurisdiction rules and practices.- Chapter 3. Jurisdictional rules on approval requirements in the European Insolvency Regulation Recast.- Chapter 4. The law applicable to the transaction avoidance in cross-border insolvency proceedings.- Chapter 5. Cooperation and Communication between Parties in the Management of Cross-Border Parallel Proceedings under the European Insolvency Regulation Recast.