Full Description
The third edition of this invaluable guide covers the application and practice of the law of set-off in over 30 jurisdictions spanning Europe, Asia and the Americas.
Written by leading experts from around the word, each chapter explains the principles of the law of set-off in the jurisdiction concerned, and provides a comparative guide for banking and finance lawyers wishing to establish the pitfalls of set-off in a foreign jurisdiction
For this new edition every chapter has been updated to contain new material specifically devoted to cross border aspects, including analysis of choice of law issues..
Fully updated legal analysis is also provided, with an emphasis on how set-off may be used as security and the application of insolvency set-off: taking into account new legal developments in the various jurisdictions and reflecting recent changes to legislation in the financial sector relating to bank and other financial firm resolution.
Contents
1: Cecelia M. Mairal, Pablo Gayol: Argentina
2: Ian Paterson: Australia
3: Dr Stefan Tiefenthaler: Austria
4: Marc Vermylen: Belgium
5: Tiago A. D. Themudo Lessa: Brazil
6: Ruth Wahl: Canada
7: Marcelo Armas M.: Chile
8: Chong Liew: China
9: Dr Dana Schweigelova and Jan Flidr: Czech Republic
10: Kim Rasmussen: Denmark
11: Richard Tredgett: England
12: Tarja Wist: Finland
13: Olivier Hubert: France
14: Dr Hendrik Haag: Germany
15: Richard Mckeown: Hong Kong
16: William Johnston: Ireland
17: Lisa Curran: Italy
18: Akihiro Wani: Japan
19: Henri Wagner: Luxembourg
20: Pablo Perezalonso: Mexico
21: Pim Rank, Larissa Silverentand: The Netherlands
22: Jonathan Ross: New Zealand
23: Ewa Butkiewicz, Michal Barlowski: Poland
24: Tiago Ferreira de Lemos: Portugal
25: Bryan Jardine: Romania
26: Elena Tchoubykina: Russia
27: Andrew Chan: Singapore
28: Johann Scholtz, Dawid de Villiers: South Africa
29: Suhn-Kyong Hong, Seong Koo-Cheong: South Korea
30: Antonio Herrera: Spain
31: Zoran Stambolovski: Sweden
32: Jürg Frick: Switzerland
33: Asli Basgoz: Turkey
34: Joshua Cohn: USA
