Financial Regulation International

Vaidyanathan Venkateswaran, Senior Consultant (Vaidyanathan_v@infosys.com), and Alex Joseph, Consultant (alex_jospeh01@infosys.com) Infosys Technologies Limited

Joanna Gray, Newcastle University

George Walker, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, London

© Denton Wilde Sapte 2006. Emma Radmore and Sara MacKenzie are senior solicitors in Denton Wilde Sapte’s Financial Markets and Regulation Group.

In this article we look at two developments in cross-border insolvency in the United Kingdom – one legislative in the form of the introduction of the Model Law and the other judicial: the Cambridge Gas decision.

* Jean-Pierre Casey is Head of Research at the European Capital Markets Institute and Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies. He can be reached on: +32 2 229 39 58 or by email at: jean-pierre.casey@ceps.be. Karel Lannoo is Secretary General of ECMI and Chief Executive of CEPS. The authors benefited from discussions held in the context of a joint CEPS/ECMI seminar on the subject, on 23 March 2006.