Executory Contracts in Insolvency Law

Edited by Jason Chuah, Professor of Law, University of Malaya, Malaysia and City, University of London, UK and Eugenio Vaccari, Associate Professor of Law, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

• Contents:Preface xxxivTable of cases xxxviTable of legislation xxxvii1 A thematic and comparative evaluation of executory contracts and ipso facto clauses 1Jason ChuahPART I COMMON LAW SYSTEMS2 Executory contracts in insolvency: The Australian perspective 30Elizabeth Streten3 Executory contracts in insolvency: The Bangladeshi Perspective 51Morshed Mannan, Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman and Borhan Uddin Khan4 Executory contracts in insolvency: The English Perspective 66Eugenio Vaccari5 Executory contracts in insolvency: The Indian perspective 89Indrajit Dube6 Executory contracts in insolvency: The New Zealand perspective 103Scott Abel7 Executory contracts in insolvency: The Singaporean Perspective 119Lee Zheng Hui Sean8 Executory contracts in insolvency: The US perspective 142Roberta Righi and Jessica WintersPART II NORDIC/BALTIC SYSTEMS9 Executory contracts in insolvency: The Danish perspective 161Line Herman Langkjaer10 Executory contracts in insolvency: The Finnish perspective 178Jarmo Tuomist11 Executory contracts in insolvency: The Lithuanian perspective 193Frank Heemann and Andrius JuškysPART III CIVIL LAW SYSTEMS12 Executory contracts in insolvency: The Albanian perspective 213Gelanda Shkurtaj13 Executory contracts in insolvency: The Argentinian perspective 228H.ctor Jos. Miguens14 Executory contracts in insolvency: The Austrian perspective 247Felix Kernbichler15 Executory contracts in insolvency: The Chinese perspective 265Yingxiang Long and Rebecca Parry16 Executory contracts in insolvency: The Croatian perspective 284Jasnica Garašić and Siniša Petrović17 Executory contracts in insolvency: The French perspective 310Emilie Ghio18 Executory contracts in insolvency: The German perspective 328David Christoph Ehmke and Annika Wolf19 Executory contracts in insolvency: The Greek perspective 348Loukas Panetsos20 Executory contracts in insolvency: The Italian perspective 363Rolandino Guidotti21 Executory contracts in insolvency: The Japanese perspective 385Chun Jin and Stacey Steele22 Executory contracts in insolvency: The Dutch perspective 402Marco Verdonk and Rolef de Weijs23 Executory contracts in insolvency: The Panamanian perspective 422Jos. Maria Lezcano Navarro24 Executory contracts in insolvency: The Russian perspective 440Dmitry Konstantinov25 Executory contracts in insolvency: The Slovenian perspective 455Katja Zdolšek26 Executory contracts in insolvency: The South Korean perspective 471Chiyong Rim27 Executory contracts in insolvency: The Spanish perspective 491Jos. Carles and Carlos Cuesta28 Executory contracts in insolvency: The Turkish perspective 508Çağlar KaçarPART IV HYBRID OR MIXED SYSTEMS29 Executory contracts in insolvency: The Canadian perspective 522Alfonso Nocilla30 Executory contracts in insolvency: The South African perspective 538Clement Marumoagae31 Executory contracts in insolvency: The United Arab Emirates and its free zones 557Christian Chamorro-Courtland

‘The treatment of executory contracts in insolvency differs significantly across jurisdictions. Therefore, getting a comprehensive understanding of the different approaches existing around the world is not an easy task. Fortunately for the insolvency community, Professor Jason Chuah and Dr Eugenio Vaccari have helped us navigate that challenge by leading this excellent book that is expected to become an essential reading for practitioners, academics, judges and policy makers.’