Selective corporate restructuring strategy

Paterson, S and Walters, A ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5854-4655, 2023. Selective corporate restructuring strategy. Modern Law Review, 86 (2), pp. 436-464. ISSN 0026-7961

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Abstract

This article engages with a fundamental, but under-theorized, fact: that modern UK and US corporate restructuring plans frequently impair only selected creditors, and frequently treat impaired creditors of equal rank differently. It starts from the premise that selectivity and differential treatment, while often justifiable, raise normative questions about the boundaries within which they ought to be permitted. It then reviews selective and differential strategies in three UK restructuring procedures, using US chapter 11 as a comparator. The core contention is that selectivity and differentiation are best regulated by the threat of independent review against a menu of relevant criteria. A menu of criteria is developed, designed to distinguish legitimate and illegitimate uses of selective and/or differential strategies, and these criteria are mapped onto the various UK restructuring law procedures and US chapter 11. The article concludes with some limited suggestions for reform directed mainly at the UK company voluntary arrangement.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Modern Law Review
Creators:	Paterson, S. and Walters, A.
Publisher:	Wiley
Date:	March 2023
Volume:	86
Number:	2
ISSN:	0026-7961
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1111/1468-2230.12767 DOI 1590883 Other
Rights:	© 2022 The Authors. The Modern Law Review published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Modern Law Review Limited. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Law School
Record created by:	Laura Ward
Date Added:	15 Aug 2022 08:30
Last Modified:	16 Feb 2023 11:40
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/46875

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