Corporate Insolvency and Rescue

Product description Irish Insolvency Law. The second edition of this authoritative book examines in detail all the corporate insolvency procedures available in Ireland, including examination, receivership and winding-up. It examines the rights and liabilities of the parties involved in the winding-up process - company directors, shareholders, and secured and unsecured creditors - and also addresses the issue of fraudulent and reckless trading. Contents: Chapter 1 Context; Chapter 2 Winding-up by the Court; Chapter 3 Winding-up by the Court: Procedural and Practical Considerations; Chapter 4 Voluntary Winding-up; Chapter 5 Liquidator's Powers and Duties; Chapter 6 Receivership; Chapter 7 Issues arising in a Receivership; Chapter 8 Priority of Creditors' Claims; Chapter 9 Creditors' Remedies; Chapter 10 Fraudulent and Reckless Trading; Chapter 11 Director Disqualification and Restriction; Chapter 12 Examinership - Part 1; Chapter 13 Examinership - Part 2; Chapter 14 Other Forms of Rescue. Review This book is comprehensive, current, practical and relevant for any individual advising in the ever-developing area of corporate insolvency and rescue…[It] is an indispensable tool for all insolvency practitioners of all levels of experience. --Law Society Gazette, November 2012 Informative, lucid and authoratitive: these were among the words of praise heaped on this book when the first edition was published in 1996. This second edition deserves these tributes in equal measure, in fact more so... If you're any way involved with cross-border insolvency, you'll find this book a mine of information and knowledge. --Phillip Taylor MBE Professor Irene Lynch-Fannon and Gerard Nicholas Murphy have produced an impressive addition to the list of essential texts for Irish insolvency practitioners, legal advisors, lenders and for those outside Ireland requiring a detailed reference work on the operation of Irish insolvency law and practice…The authors are to be congratulated for their significant achievement in producing this exceptional work. --INSOL World Professor Irene Lynch-Fannon and Gerard Nicholas Murphy have produced an impressive addition to the list of essential texts for Irish insolvency practitioners, legal advisors, lenders and for those outside Ireland requiring a detailed reference work on the operation of Irish insolvency law and practice…The authors are to be congratulated for their significant achievement in producing this exceptional work. --INSOL World About the Author Professor Irene Lynch-Fannon is a graduate of UCD (BCL 1982); Oxford University (BCL 1986, Senior Scholar, Somerville College) and the University of Virginia (Doctor of Juridical Science 1999). She qualified as a Solicitor in Ireland in 1985. She has taught Company Law and Employment Law in the Department of Law at UCC since 1987.