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The Long And Winding Road To The Small Business Reorganization Act: Why Our Next Stop Should Be Simplicity And Accessibility, Daniel O'Hare
The Long And Winding Road To The Small Business Reorganization Act: Why Our Next Stop Should Be Simplicity And Accessibility, Daniel O'Hare
West Virginia Law Review
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An Innovative Framework: Evaluating The New German Business Stabilization And Restructuring Law (Starug), Andreas Rauch
An Innovative Framework: Evaluating The New German Business Stabilization And Restructuring Law (Starug), Andreas Rauch
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
This comment examines the restructuring framework, restrukturierungsgesetz (“StaRUG”), and argues that this new law represents an effective—albeit radical—departure from Germany’s previous, conservative insolvency regime. Passed in response to a 2019 EU Directive aimed at modernizing restructuring law Union-wide, and integrated into the German legal system against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, StaRUG and its ancillary reforms in other areas of German law create a restructuring proceeding that places a premium on a debtor’s continued business operations. Thus, in a striking shift from the traditional German approach to business distress, which strongly emphasized creditor rights, the new StaRUG focuses on …