Full Description
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;
Regulation.
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)
