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Reaching To Restructure Across Borders (Without Over-Reaching), Even After Brexit, Susan Block-Lieb
Reaching To Restructure Across Borders (Without Over-Reaching), Even After Brexit, Susan Block-Lieb
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Is there such a thing as “good” forum shopping? Courts and commentators have begun to articulate the “virtues” of at least some forum shopping, including forum shopping to resolve corporate insolvency or financial distress whether on a domestic or global basis. Especially within the European Union (EU), acceptance has grown of debtors’ efforts to qualify as eligible to access the forum best able to resolve their financial difficulties, even where the efforts involve substantial “fact shifting,” so long as these efforts occurred transparently and were neither abusive nor in bad faith. Growing acceptance of such efforts is partly the result …