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Book Review: The Winding-Up Of Insolvent Companies In England And France, Keith M. Lundin
Book Review: The Winding-Up Of Insolvent Companies In England And France, Keith M. Lundin
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Livadas provides an especially adept analysis and comparison of the treatment of employees of insolvent companies in the two countries. The author convincingly demonstrates that a French "liquidation des biens" protects employee wages, benefits, and claims more extensively than an English winding-up proceeding. The French requirement of compulsory insurance to protect the wages of employees and the special privilege afforded employees against the immovable assets of a French company are without analogy in English winding-up law. Livadas punctuates the chapters on the liabilities of officers and directors, which are generally more strict in France than in England, and the priorities …