COVID-19 and Business Law

Author: Horst Eidenmüller; Luca Enriques; Genevieve Helleringer; Kristen van Zwieten
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509944736
Published In: August 2020
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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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

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)