Confidentiality, secrecy and privilege matters in corporate insolvency and bank resolution To be confidential, secret, and priviledged, or not to be? That is the question. Shuai Guo and Bob Wessels • February 22, 2021
CERIL highlights inconsistent EU Insolvency Regulation implementation across Europe Independent European think tank CERIL calls for better coordination and application of the Insolvency Regulation in the EU member states. Bob Wessels • June 04, 2018
Data protection under the Insolvency Regulation (Recast) The European Insolvency Regulation has a separate chapter on data protection of insolvency registers and data transferred when selling an insolvent company. The General Data Protection Regulation takes effect on 25 May 2018. How will it influence the EIR? Bob Wessels • May 01, 2018
Brexit, transition period till 31 December 2020, and beyond In the draft Withdrawal Agreement between the EU and the UK the Insolvency Regulation (Recast) will apply till the end of a transition period in 31 December 2020. But what’s next? Bob Wessels • March 16, 2018
International commercial courts: the Netherlands is lagging behind International commercial courts are on the rise to serve the needs and realities of international commerce. Taking a recent study, some features of the Singapore International Commercial Court are compared to plans to set up a Netherlands Commercial Court. Bob Wessels • February 05, 2018
U.S Bill to limit venue shopping in bankruptcy cases Draft legislation in the USA will limit the choice of courts where insolvency cases can be handled. The draft bill will effectively limit access to the popular bankruptcy courts in New York and Delaware. It will not be adopted without a political struggle. Bob Wessels • January 15, 2018
Towards a UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-border Insolvency 2.0? Recently the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency was adopted by Chile, the Philippines and Singapore. The Model Law is praised as a tool to draft a country’s provisions of international insolvency law. Now 20 years old, is it time for a revamp? Bob Wessels • November 27, 2017
CERIL - Independent Think Tank in European Restructuring and Insolvency Matters The Conference of European Restructuring and Insolvency Law (CERIL) acts as an independent non-profit think tank committed to the improvement of legal and practice frameworks at national and European levels. In September CERIL issued its first statement. Bob Wessels • October 23, 2017
Rescue of Business in Insolvency Law – ELI Report published In a recent report of the European Law Institute (ELI) over 100 recommendation are made on a variety of themes affected by the rescue of financially distressed, but viable businesses. These include security rights and contract, corporate and labour law. Bob Wessels • September 13, 2017
