Complex Cross-Border Bankruptcy Issues (Chapter 15) (2013 ABI New York City Bankruptcy Conference) - Alan W. Kornberg, Kenneth A. Buckfire, Hon. Martin Glenn, Gary L. Kaplan, Madlyn Gleich Primoff, Glenn E. Siegel

Appraisal, or dissenters’, rights, long an M&A afterthought, have recently attracted more attention from dealmakers as a result of a number of largely unrelated factors. By way of brief review, appraisal rights are a statutory remedy available to objecting stockholders in certain extraordinary transactions.

Chapter 11 has been a leading US “export” in the last ten years, with countries around the world modernising their insolvency laws, many using Chapter 11 as an example. Since its enactment in 1978, the US Bankruptcy Code has become an essential business tool for distressed companies in the US.

Navigating Your Way Through the Latest Complexities of Bankruptcy (2013 ABI Annual Spring Meeting) - Kristin C. Wigness, Marc Abrams, Neil E. Herman

Commercial Fraud/International/Technology & Intellectual Property (2013 ABI Annual Spring Meeting) - Hon. Judith K. Fitzgerald, David W. Tohn, Cullen Drescher Speckhart

BK 360 Revisited: ABI Past-Presidents Panel (2013 ABI Annual Spring Meeting) - Melissa Kibler Knoll, Michael P. Richman, Robin E. Phelan, William J. Rochelle III

International Program (2013 ABI Annual Spring Meeting) - Claudia R. Tobler, Kolja von Bismarck, Melanie L. Cyganowski, Ronald J. Silverman

The law of 6 April 2013 on dematerialised securities entered into force on 19 April 2013. It introduces a legal regime for dematerialised securities, inspired by existing regimes in Belgium, Switzerland and France.

There are two main sources of confusion in the public corporate governance debate. One is the confusion about the role of public policy intervention. The other is a lack of empirical knowledge about the corporate landscape where rules are supposed to be implemented and the functioning of today’s equity markets, where voting rights and cash flow rights are traded. To mitigate some of this confusion, this paper provides both an analytical framework for the role of public policy and a description of the empirical context that influences the conditions for that policy.

In Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., No. 10-1491 (U.S. Apr. 17, 2013), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the presumption against extraterritoriality applies to claims under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). Consequently, there is no federal court jurisdiction under the ATS for torts in violation of the law of nations that occur in a foreign country.