COVID-19 and Business Law

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COVID-19 and Business Law

Edited by Horst Eidenmüller · Luca Enriques · Genevieve Helleringer · Kristen van Zwieten
Hart Publishing August 2020

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ISBN-13
9781509944736
Publisher
Hart Publishing
Publication
August 2020
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
International ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

This indispensable and immediate response brings together expert views on how the world of business should best respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be required reading for those designing, interpreting and relying on business law when responding to COVID-19.

The contributions are organised under six broad themes:

  • Corporate Law
  • Financial Markets
  • Insolvency Law
  • Dispute Resolution
  • Competition Law, and
  • Regulation

Table of Contents

Part A. Corporate Law
Chapter 1. Shareholder Primacy in the Time of Coronavirus (Akshaya Kamalnath)
Chapter 2. Directors' Duty under UK Law to Promote the Success of the Company during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Philip Gavin)
Chapter 3. When Businesses Can Do Good: Lessons from the Coronavirus Crisis for Promoting Responsible Business Practices (Suren Gomtsian)
Part B. Financial Markets
Chapter 4. Emergency Measures for Equity Trading: The Case Against Short-Selling Bans and Stock Exchange Shutdowns (Luca Enriques and Marco Pagano)
Chapter 5. Covid-19: Should We Close Stock Exchanges? (Alexandra Andhov)
Chapter 6. Financial Regulation Suspensions in Times of Crisis (Iris H-Y Chiu, Andreas Kokkinis, Andrea Miglionico)
Chapter 7. A COVID-19 Index Fund – The New Fearless Girl? (Anna L Christie)
Chapter 8. Start-up Funding in Times of Covid-19 (Alexandra Andhov and Raphael Andrade)
Chapter 9. How to Rescue Startups During the Pandemic (Dorothea Ringe & Wolf-Georg Ringe)
Part C. Insolvency Law
Chapter 10. COVID-19: A Global Moratorium for Corporate Bonds? (Kristin van Zwieten, Horst Eidenmüller, Luca Enriques)
Chapter 11. The Wrong Target? COVID-19 and the Wrongful Trading Rule (Kristin van Zwieten)
Chapter 12. What's so Wrong with Wrongful Trading? – On Suspending Director Liability During the Coronavirus Crisis (Amir Licht)
Chapter 13. Corporate Liquidation Proceedings in Ecuador: The Recapitalize or Liquidate Rule in Times of COVID-19 (Esteban Ortiz Mena and Paúl Noboa Velasco)
Chapter 14. Flattening the Filing Curve for SMEs: Lessons from Colombia's Insolvency Reform (Alvaro Pereira)
Chapter 15. COVID-19 and Beyond: The Case for Creditor Cooperation Duties in Corporate Workouts (Horst Eidenmüller and Kristin van Zwieten)
Part D. Dispute Resolution
Chapter 16. Virtual Justice in the Time of COVID-19 (Mimi Zou)
Part E. Competition Law and Regulation
Chapter 17. Contemplating COVID-19 and Competition – Returning to the Rat Race or Aspiring for Something Nobler? (Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice E Stucke)
Chapter 18. The Race to Fight COVID-19: On the Desirability of Regulatory Competition (Horst Eidenmüller)
Chapter 19. A Response to Eidenmüller's Defense of Regulatory Competition in the Fight against COVID-19 (Marco Ventoruzzo)
Chapter 20. The Quest for a Common European Fiscal Response to Fight COVID-19 (Julian Pröbstl)
Chapter 21. Who Knows What Tomorrow Brings? Of Uncertainty in Times of a Pandemic (Pierre Schammo)
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