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In Restructuring & Insolvency, your reputation, relationships and referrals are everything. You need the latest tips and tricks and what’s happening in the market right now. LexisPSL Restructuring & Insolvency is designed to give you that edge.  

It’s the only online resource that brings everything you need together, in one place. So you can give your clients the clear, authoritative and practical answers they expect.  With less time on research and drafting, and more time to focus on building your business.

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Content and tools

The only online resource that gives you everything you need in one place: guidance, research,  electronic forms and time-saving tools.

  • Clear, concise practice notes that give you an expert view in a few pages - the legal position, with a commercial slant
  • Direct links to all the relevant forms in LexisSmart format, that take a fraction of the time to fill in, save and edit
  • Checklists and quick references to keep you on track
  • Calculators (like our unique Matrimonial Calculator for personal insolvency cases) that can save you hours, if not days of research and calculations
  • News updates to keep you in the loop
  • Direct links to the underlying authority and commentary, for deeper research (see below for more information)

Choose from a comprehensive range of topics (*coming soon)

Corporate insolvency processes

  • Members' voluntary liquidation
  • Creditors' voluntary liquidation
  • Compulsory liquidation
  • Provisional liquidators
  • Administration
  • Receivership
  • Company Voluntary Arrangements
  • Guides to dealing with a distressed company
  • Directors disqualification*
  • The special administration regime*

Partnerships

  • General partnerships
  • Limited partnerships
  • Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs)

Personal insolvency

  • Bankruptcy
  • Bankruptcy restriction orders
  • Definition of the bankruptcy estate/vesting of property
  • Individual voluntary arrangements
  • Statutory demands
  • Annulments
  • Debt management and relief*
  • Administration of insolvent estates*
  • Suspension of discharge*

Family/Bankruptcy law issues

  • Family proceedings and ancillary relief (including property adjustment orders)
  • Dealing with the family home

Restructuring

  • Initial analysis
  • Types of debt and financial structures
  • Day-to-day practical issues
  • Standstill agreements
  • Creditors' committees in restructuring
  • Valuations
  • Types of restructuring
  • Inter-creditor issues
  • Financial Collateral Regulation
  • Securitisation and asset based lending
  • Secondary trading
  • Schemes of arrangement

Insolvency trading issues

  • Pre-packs
  • Sale and purchase of assets
  • Trading with an insolvent company
  • Directors' and members' issues
  • Employment issues
  • Pension issues
  • Taxation and insolvency
  • Execution of documents
  • Environment issues


Cross-border

  • EC Regulation on Insolvency [1346/2000]
  • UNCITRAL Model Law and Cross Border Insolvency Regulations 2006 [CBIR]
  • Cross-border cooperation
  • Comparison of European processes
  • US chapter 11
  • Forum shopping and COMI shifting
  • Rest of the world comparisons (UAE, China, Cayman, BVI, Bermuda, Canada)*

Insolvency litigation

  • Bringing a claim on behalf of an insolvent company's insolvency officer
  • Limitations on suing a company/individual when in a formal insolvency process
  • Disputed debts
  • Evidence and evidence gathering
  • The court process
  • Property issues
  • Disclaimer
  • Bankrupcty and the matrimonial home
  • Funding
  • Enforcement of foreign judgements
  • Appeals*

The office-holder

  • Roles, powers, duties and functions
  • Remuneration and fees
  • Challenges
  • Evidence gathering/obtaining company property
  • Sanction and office-holders

Creditors, including proof of debts, meetings and
recovery of property

  • Creditors' meetings
  • Creditors' committees
  • Proof of debt
  • Order of payments

Recent developments/hot issues

  • Lehmans
  • Legal reforms
  • Recent cases
  • Current issues

Pensions and insolvency

  • How does insolvency affect pensions?

Personal liability and general avoidance
issues/remedies for the estate

  • Clawback and avoidable dispositions
  • Prohibited names
  • Bankruptcy restriction orders

Employment and insolvency

  • Employees

Glossary

Written by experts

We work with leading people at the top of their profession, across many fields of specialism, working together to ensure we meet the needs of the fast-changing world.

Our Consulting Editorial Board and external Contributors includes representatives from:

LexisNexis Restructuring & Insolvency lawyers:

Eleanor Stephens - SolicitorEleanor Stephens
Solicitor 
Benn Richards - SolicitorBenn Richards
Solicitor 
Kathy Stones - SolicitorKathy Stones
Solicitor 


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