has been made, the bankruptcy system is an effective way to implement such a decision. Further, using the bankruptcy … system to effect government funding of a failing industry does not distort the bankruptcy system …

interaction of the same. For example, under current law, a large hedge fund would be “resolved” under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy …

Among the collective wisdom about large corporate bankruptcy cases, the following points are almost undisputed: Longer …

assets from the debtor in a way that would not be possible in a “normal” bankruptcy case. In particular, we examine how a …

law. Debt agreements were introduced into Australian personal insolvency law in 1996 as an alternative to bankruptcy. This … alternative to bankruptcy …

slightly less, on average, than the debtor's bankruptcy attorneys. I also model the costs of financial advisors and find that … such cases. I conclude by noting how little the Bankruptcy Code as drafted in 1978 is suited to the types of compensation …

possible ways in which they may be addressed. Using reorganization under chapter 11 bankruptcy to demarcate our discussion into … a set of pre-bankruptcy and post-bankruptcy issues, we review the legal and finance thinking on this issue …

In this paper our goal is to identify the core of corporate bankruptcy law that parties cannot achieve on their own, no … matter how robust their contract law. Our approach takes organizational law as starting point and we posit that bankruptcy … law is a necessary addition to organizational law. Necessary in that two essential elements of corporate bankruptcy law …

highly sceptical about the value of debt agreements, or ‘Part IX' agreements. By contrast, they generally saw bankruptcy as a … regarding the long term impact of bankruptcy upon severely disadvantaged debtors. Several expressed the view that bankruptcy … disadvantages, such as mental illness. Instead, for people in this situation, bankruptcy offers little more than a temporary …

bankruptcy process that Congress enacted in 1978 …