Transaction Avoidance in Insolvencies Rebecca Parry, James Ayliffe QC and Sharif Shivji (3rd edn) (2018, OUP, Oxford), 720pp, £195, ISBN 978-0-19-879…

2018

Opening the Door for the Opportunistic Use of Interim Financing: A Critical Assessment of the EU Draft Directive on Preventive Restructuring Framewor…

2018

The draft of the EU Directive on Preventive Restructuring Frameworks and Second Chance (the "Directive") provides rules for adopting reorganisation plans in order to avoid insolvency. The draft Directive also provides rules on the related problem of interim financing. According to the draft Directive, interim financing should be encouraged and not be made subject to clawback unless parties have committed fraud or acted in bad faith. The Directive thereby fails to recognise that finance transactions are too diverse in nature to provide the company and its financial creditors with a transaction avoidance free period. If the Directive is adopted in its current form, it will open the door for o…