News Topic: Comparative & Int'l Perspectives

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Courtesy of Jack Ayer , professor emeritus of law and polymathy, comes the following from the Wikipedia entry on Modigliani  -- Amedeo, not Franco: ... Read full article

This week's Dealb%k is about foreign debtors that file under the US Code, which also just happens to be the subject of a recent paper that my co-author and I have posted online . ... Read full article

I am obsessively interested in two things -- bankruptcy and Formula One auto racing. I feed the first interest through this blog. ... Read full article

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Never let it be said that the wheels of international justice spin quickly, but, with the pace of a Siberian jail sentence, the Permanent Court of Arbitration finally handed down its merits award in the Yukos litigation. ... Read full article

You thought that Google was just a search engine.  It turns out that Google is also a credit reporting agency.  The octopus has a 9th tentacle.  Didn't see that coming. (I guess that makes it a Googlepus...) That's the implication of the ... Read full article

This post will be my last one, and I would like to start it thanking Bob and the rest of the  Credit Slips  team for inviting me again to guest blog. I felt flattered and excited to share my experiences with Spanish insolvency law the first time, and the ... Read full article

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In my first post I advanced some basic ideas on the situation of Spanish mortgage debtors. The Spanish situation following the housing crisis may be familiar to readers because it shares many of the same characteristics of problems in European countries. ... Read full article

I’m on my way to the Choice of Law in Cross-Border Bankruptcy Cases symposium  at Brooklyn Law School that Susan Block-Lieb mentioned in her post earlier this week, so I have Chapter 15 on the brain. ... Read full article

In this post I will explain the extent of the discharge given to insolvent individuals under the new Spanish insolvency law. Different problems arise from the way it has been introduced, ranging from its extent to the differences depending on the nature ... Read full article

A grand tour of several percolating global restructuring issues, including Greece, the Ukraine, TXU, and, Mark and Anna's favorite, Argentina. Over at Dealb%k . ... Read full article

My previous post announced my intention to focus on the new Spanish Insolvency Law’s differences between individual debtors with or without business activities. ... Read full article

Chapter 15’s modified universalism structure requires cooperation between courts in different countries as well as tolerance for outcome differences under different bankruptcy laws. While in general it’s fair to say U.S. courts have been cooperative and ... Read full article