Wolf-Georg Ringe is Professor of International Commercial Law at the Copenhagen Business School. Louise Gullifer is Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Oxford and a tutor at Harris Manchester College. Philippe Thery is Professor of Law at the University Paris II (Pantheon-Assas) and former Deputy Director of the Institute of European and Comparative Law of the University of Oxford.

...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

• 1. The Evolution of Insolvency Law in FrancePhilippe Théry2. The Reforms of the Enterprise Act 2002 and the Floating Charge as a Security DeviceLouise Gullifer3. The Effect of the Enterprise Act 2002: Empirical Research into Corporate InsolvencySandra Frisby4. Comment and SummaryPhilippe Théry5. Strategic Insolvency Migration and Community LawWolf-Georg Ringe6. The ‘Centre of the Debtor’s Main Interests’: Comments on the Eurofood Judgment of the ECJGeorges Khairallah7. European Insolvency Proceedings and Party Choice: CommentJohn Armour8. The Recent Influence of Insolvency Law on the Evolution of Security in French LawPierre Crocq9. Guarantees and Collective ProceduresLaurent Leveneur10. Comments and Discussion ReportHugh Beale11. The Exclusion of Certain Creditors from the Law of Collective ProceedingsHervé Synvet12. How Do the Courts Choose between Different Bankruptcy Outcomes? The Results of a French SurveyRégis Blazy, Betrand Chopard, Agnès Fimayer and Jean-Daniel Guigou13. Comments and Discussion ReportRobert Stevens14. SummaryWolf-Georg Ringe and Louise Gullifer

Wolf-Georg Ringe is Professor of International Commercial Law at the Copenhagen Business School. Louise Gullifer is Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Oxford and a tutor at Harris Manchester College. Philippe Thery is Professor of Law at the University Paris II (Pantheon-Assas) and former Deputy Director of the Institute of European and Comparative Law of the University of Oxford.

...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

• 1. The Evolution of Insolvency Law in FrancePhilippe Théry2. The Reforms of the Enterprise Act 2002 and the Floating Charge as a Security DeviceLouise Gullifer3. The Effect of the Enterprise Act 2002: Empirical Research into Corporate InsolvencySandra Frisby4. Comment and SummaryPhilippe Théry5. Strategic Insolvency Migration and Community LawWolf-Georg Ringe6. The ‘Centre of the Debtor’s Main Interests’: Comments on the Eurofood Judgment of the ECJGeorges Khairallah7. European Insolvency Proceedings and Party Choice: CommentJohn Armour8. The Recent Influence of Insolvency Law on the Evolution of Security in French LawPierre Crocq9. Guarantees and Collective ProceduresLaurent Leveneur10. Comments and Discussion ReportHugh Beale11. The Exclusion of Certain Creditors from the Law of Collective ProceedingsHervé Synvet12. How Do the Courts Choose between Different Bankruptcy Outcomes? The Results of a French SurveyRégis Blazy, Betrand Chopard, Agnès Fimayer and Jean-Daniel Guigou13. Comments and Discussion ReportRobert Stevens14. SummaryWolf-Georg Ringe and Louise Gullifer