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Corporate Bankruptcy Requirements & Impacts “Under The Egyptian Law, Belal A. Badawy

UAEU Law Journal

The term “Merchant” does not only make reference to a natural person, but can also mean a moral person and, more precisely, corporations. As firms acquire commercial capacity, they become subject to the same legal regulations governing individual merchants. They can then be declared bankrupt just at the moment that they stop paying their commercial debts.

While much emphasis has been placed on the provisions of bankruptcy generally in jurisprudence and legislation, the bankruptcy provisions of corporations are somehow overlooked, although such provisions are those which should have been given due attention, for two reasons:

First, the role of a …