Australia's corporate insolvency regime strives to provide flexible measures that allow stakeholders of a financially distressed company to come to a mutually beneficial arrangement. As with all insolvency laws, it is possible to bind dissenting creditors to the will of the majority in resolving...

During the COVID-19 pandemic and global financial crisis, governments swiftly served as financiers of last resort through large financial support measures (FSMs) such as loan and guarantee programs and equity injections in firms. This Staff Discussion Note argues that such FSMs prevented...