...provides very valuable insights for this highly topical and practically relevant discussion. The authors, without exception, have to be praised for their enlightening contributions to the debate on European financial and insolvency law. Felix Steffek European Business Organization Law Review Volume 12, 2011 This is a fascinating book. It raises a whole host of discussion points ... about the merits of empirics, about the value of comparative research, about the cultural specificity of norms and about particular insolvency sticking points. I am pleased to recommend it. Gerard McCormack Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly September 2011