This course aims at introducing students to the concept, principles, mechanics, practice, doctrinal and statutory rules, as well the theories of, or relating to, corporate restructuring in a cross-border context.  The content of the course include:

• The concept of corporate insolvency and restructuring, and cross-border insolvency
• The principal features of a winding-up
• The purposes and functions of corporate rescue
• The different approaches to corporate rescue in the US, UK and other Commonwealth jurisdictions
• Uses of schemes of arrangement as a restructuring tool
• The different approaches to cross-border insolvency
• Management and conduct of corporate rescue in a cross-border context
• Possible law reform and options (including both the proposed Provisional Supervision procedure and enactment of cross-border insolvency statute)

A comparative approach will be adopted in the teaching of the course.