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Insolvency proceedings from a sustainability perspective
No full textSustainability is a wide concept including environmental, economic, social/culture, and political dimensions. Currently, sustainability research is a rich scientific discipline producing a significant number of research papers. However, sustainability in the context of insolvency proceedings has attracted little research compared with, for example, how much attention corporate social responsibility has received in company law research. This article studies sustainability in the context of liquidation and restructuring proceedings and the preservation of different kinds of resources (natural, manufactured, human, and social capital) in insolvency procedures. The purpose of insolvency proceedings may prevent the full implementation of sustainability. In bankruptcy, the administrator must maximise the selling price for creditor satisfaction, and there are few possibilities to promote sustainability. When facing an acute environmental hazard, in the name of public interest, a bankruptcy estate with assets usually has to act unless the law stipulates that society is responsible for taking care of the problem. In restructuring proceedings, the main purpose is to continue the debtor's business. It depends on the markets how sustainable the debtor company must be to achieve profitability. If becoming a profitable company in a “green” or otherwise sustainable market requires costly efforts, creditors' interests may require the sale of the assets. The author views through sustainability lenses EU Restructuring and insolvency Directive (2019) and finds there is not much of a sustainability approach included.Peer reviewe
Euroopan unionin tuomioistuimen tuomio C-461/11 asiassa Radzjejewski (8.11.2012):yksityishenkilön velkajärjestely hiertää eurooppalaisessa insolvessioikeudessa
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Velkaantunut lapsi ja nuori : suomalaisen pikaluottosääntelyn ja insolvenssioikeuden näkökulma
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Business Sustainability and Insolvency Proceedings - The EU Perspective
No full textBusiness sustainability refers to economic sustainability performance that promotes profitability and to non-financial sustainability that may or may not create profitability. This paper concentrates on the relation between business sustainability and insolvency proceedings by asking what role business sustainability plays when choosing between restructuring (rescue) and liquidation proceedings. This choice is based on two tests: a viability test and a best interest of creditors test, the latter meaning that no dissenting creditor should be worse off in restructuring than in liquidation proceedings. In addition, the paper asks what role business sustainability plays when making the choice between restructuring and liquidation and what the consequences of this choice are for business sustainability elements. In addition, the paper asks who the stakeholders for business sustainability are in insolvency situations. The finding of the study is that creditor interest should be better balanced with non-financial sustainability, but with the requirement that creditors know the risks beforehand and are able to protect their interests, for example, through securities. Regarding environmental hazards, the paper suggests a “super responsibility” of bankruptcy estates to handle environmental problems, according to the precedent of the Canadian Supreme Court.Peer reviewe
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