Description

This book examines the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Law and Practices across jurisdictions viz., India, United Kingdom and the United States of America. The individual chapters explore the different insolvency regimes prevalent in India, UK and the USA and the emergency measures amidst the COVID-19 pandemic to deal with the upsurge in insolvency filings as the pandemic has sent the financial markets into a tailspin across the world. The full range of chapters evaluates the legal framework of the insolvency laws in germane jurisdictions and divulges into the foundational concepts upon which rests the cornerstone of the bankruptcy law and assesses the basal substantive law for further policy amendments. The book dictates deployment of a judicious mix of conventional and unconventional changes to revamp the sinking financial markets with insolvency being a protuberant aspect inter alia requisitioning refit. The book imbibes the multitudinous approach to examine the principles of insolvency and bankruptcy law and presents a comparative outlook on different insolvency regimes with statistics in the selected jurisdictions as the overriding theme of the book.