The intended trustee in Dutch pre-pack: from fly on the wall to spider in the web The draft bill of the Continuity of Enterprises Act I assigns a significant role to the intended trustee in Dutch pre-pack proceedings. But what exactly is the position of this main figure and what does the job description include? Romy Siebelink • December 02, 2019
Pre-pack in Dutch Insolvency Law: Costs & Benefits for Share- and Debtholders, Employees and Society A new tool has been added to Dutch Insolvency Law: the pre-pack. This modernisation of insolvency law has been criticised and disputed. Is the pre-pack a step forwards or backwards? Tim Verdoes • July 15, 2016
V&D and the arbitrariness of rescuing businesses Why do communities/governments support banks and football clubs but not V&D? Similarities exist between these cases. Comparison shows the arbitrariness of supporting (insolvent) businesses directly or indirectly. Tim Verdoes • January 26, 2016 • 166 comments
Myths of Mismanagement Asserting that mismanagement is the prime cause of business failure is highly subjective and in fact a (biased) social construction. It is based on the premise that firms survive in principle and that running a business is easy. Both assumptions are wrong! Tim Verdoes • June 18, 2015 • 6 comments
The shorter lifetime of the firm in the age of the corporate rescue culture Something strange is going on. Insolvency regulators and policymakers want to rescue more firms. At the same time, the expected lifetime of businesses is declining. Tim Verdoes • April 04, 2014
