Ilya Kokorin – författare

This book examines common intra-group financial transactions, such as intra-group loans and cross-guarantees, highlighting their impact and treatment in the insolvency and restructuring of multinational enterprise groups. It identifies the unique challenges posed by the complex corporate and financial structures of multinational firms when one or more group entities face insolvency. It provides a comparative analysis of statutes and recent case law from three leading restructuring forums: the UK, the USA and the Netherlands.Key Features:Assesses how insolvency law can better respond to the economic realities of corporate groups and their financial arrangements.Identifies post-global financial crisis regulations for banking groups and how they can inform solutions for corporate group insolvencies.Investigates modern commercial practices and legal tools for group restructurings, including third-party releases, extended enforcement stays, rescue financing and safe harbours against transaction avoidance.Analyses common intra-group financial arrangements, such as intra-group loans, centralised cash management, cross-guarantees and other forms of shared liability, exploring the major problems they create in insolvency.Clear, comparative and comprehensive in scope, this book offers valuable insights for judges and lawyers specialising in company, financial and insolvency law, as well as for insolvency practitioners and policymakers. It also serves as an essential resource for students and scholars in the fields of corporate law and governance, insolvency law, finance and banking law.

This book provides a commentary on the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR), a game-changing EU regulation for crypto-assets and crypto-asset services.Directly applicable in all EU Member States, MiCAR serves as a benchmark for future regulation in other jurisdictions, influencing rulemaking and crypto industry around the world.In this book, leading experts in the fields of financial law, regulation and technology examine the goals, rules and operation of MiCAR. The book explores its provisions in the broader context of current market practices, technological developments, existing financial law instruments (eg MiFID II, Prospectus Regulation, Crowdfunding Regulation and Market Abuse Regulation), court cases (eg the bankruptcies of FTX and Celsius), regulatory initiatives in the USA and the UK, as well as soft law instruments.The book is designed for anyone dealing with crypto-assets or considering entering the crypto space. This includes representatives from legal and business communities, both incumbent (banks, investment firms, investment funds) and new market players (crypto exchanges, wallet service providers, issuers of stablecoins), supervisory authorities, students and academics.The reader will gain a deep understanding of the scope and structure of MiCAR, key terms used in it, its rationale, and the main rules for issuers of crypto-assets, crypto-asset service providers and crypto-asset services.