Current Issues in European Financial and Insolvency Law : Perspectives from France and the UK

Prelims -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1 The Evolution of Insolvency law in France -- 2 The Reforms of the Enterprise Act 2002 and the Floating Charge as a Security Device -- 3 The Effect of the Enterprise Act 2002: Empirical Research into Corporate Insolvency -- 4 Comment and Summary -- 5 Strategic Insolvency Migration and Community Law -- 6 The 'Centre of the Debtor's Main Interests': Comments on the Eurofood Judgment of the ECJ -- 7 European Insolvency Proceedings and Party Choice: Comment -- 8 The Recent Influence of Insolvency Law on the Evolution of Security in French Law -- 9 Guarantees and Collective Procedures -- 10 Comments and Discussion Report -- 11 The Exclusion of Certain Creditors from the Law of Collective Proceedings -- 12 How Do the Courts Choose between Different Bankruptcy Outcomes? The Results of a French Survey -- 13 Comments and Discussion Report -- 14 Summary -- 15 Annex -- Index.