Debtors’ Paradise A dangerous pitfall in Spanish bankruptcy law

In March 2008 the author wrote an article on a Spanish bankruptcy case in which a client of his was (and still is) involved, concerning a Spanish company and its liquidators who “took the money and ran”, at least with the money they should have paid to his client. The author initiated legal proceedings against the liquidators in February 2005. By the time of writing the article in March 2008, he was still waiting for one of the many Madrid courts to be declared competent. In October 2008 that was decided by the appeals court of Madrid. Since then, it is now 2012… the competent court, Court number 51 of Madrid, is still “busy” serving the summons to the liquidators. Jan Willem de Haan decided it was time for a new article on Spanish bankruptcy law and practice. This time he will discuss a dangerous pitfall in the actual Spanish....