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The Measure Of A Monitor's Role, Alejandro E. Gonzalez Aug 2021

The Measure Of A Monitor's Role, Alejandro E. Gonzalez

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

This study examines the monitor, a court-appointed officer under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, in order to determine whether and how to best secure its independence. Concerns over the role are increasingly over whether it can maintain its supposed impartiality and avoid conflicts of interest. This study centers on its fiduciary duty, long discussed in the courts, as both problematic because it is not conclusively defined, and as the best means of establishing the monitor as a fair and impartial guardian of public confidence in Canadian insolvency law. By examining leading insolvency law theories, international and Canadian insolvency policy, and …


Protection Of The Rights Of The Creditors And The Debtor In The Process Of Financial Reorganization And Structuring Of Troubled Companies: A Comparative Study On The 2016 Uae Bankruptcy Law, French And American Legislations, Alaa Khasawneh Jan 2021

Protection Of The Rights Of The Creditors And The Debtor In The Process Of Financial Reorganization And Structuring Of Troubled Companies: A Comparative Study On The 2016 Uae Bankruptcy Law, French And American Legislations, Alaa Khasawneh

UAEU Law Journal

This study deals with the protection of creditors and the debtor in accordance with the methods of saving and assisting troubled companies approved by the UAE Act of bankruptcy of 2016, as the legislator of the UAE in this law aimed to solve the difficulties faced by troubled companies and to protect them from bankruptcy and its negative consequences, This means raises problems about the extent of the protection afforded to the creditors compared to that afforded to the interests of the debtor, where legislator treated it with special care and subjected to special procedures differ from bankruptcy proceedings, and …