On 17 December 2020 the German Parliament has passed the rules on the further development of the German restructuring and insolvency law and it will now enter into force on 1 January 2021. An essential part of the law is the introduction of a corporate stabilisation and restructuring regime, which establishes a legal framework for out-of-court restructurings in Germany on the basis of the EU Restructuring Directive of 20 June 2019 (Directive (EU) 2019/1023) (the Preventive Restructuring Framework).