Practical guidance on insolvency law for international financial transactions * Provides comparative studies of key areas of international insolvency law, including: judicial reorganisations and plans, private restructuring agreements and workouts, liquidations, the liabilities of corporate directors and lender liability, voidable preferences, priorities, trusts and custodianship, the impact of insolvency on contracts and leases as well as bank insolvencies and state insolvencies * Provides snapshots of insolvency laws worldwide * Discusses conflict of laws on insolvency, including the EU Insolvency Regulation and the Uncitral Model Law