Class Insolvency Law

It is intended that students understand the ways in which insolvency work, their requirements, and any necessary effects. It is also intended that students understand how the process unfolds insolvency and business recovery procedure, that they might be possible in the future to apply this knowledge in their practice as professional life.

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I. Introduction. The current CIRE: the paradigm. II. Insolvency proceedings. 1. Introduction. 2. Main characteristics. 3. Assumptions. 4. Processing. 5. Insolvency organs. 5.1. The trustee. 5.2. The creditors comittee. 5.3. The creditors meeting. 6. Effects of insolvencys declaration. 6.1. Effects on the debtor and other people. 6.2. Adjective effects. 6.3. Effects on the credits. 6.4. Effects on the business. 6.5. Resolution for the benefit of the insolvente estate. 6.6. Extintion of the effects. 7. Assets in insolvency. 8. Verification of claims. 9. Payment to creditors. 10. Restitution and separate property. 11. Further verification of claims and other rights. 12. Insolvency plan. 13. PER and PEAP. 14. Termination of proceedings. 15. Natural person insolvency. III. RERE and Pre-packs.

Problematization, simulation of practical hypotheses, construction of possible solutions based on real cases and group discussion.

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