Chapter 15 was added to the Bankruptcy Code by the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, adopting UNCITRAL’s Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency. Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code can be found in the US Code on Cornell LII, the House OLRC, and on Lexis, Westlaw, and Hein Online’s US Code Library. A brief introduction to Chapter 15 can be found in the US Courts’ Bankruptcy Basics.
The Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency was drafted and promoted by UNCITRAL’s Working Group on Insolvency Law to standardize the handling of insolvency cases where debtors, creditors, and assets are in more than one country. UNCITRAL Texts & Status has text of the model law, a Guide to Enactment and Interpretation, explanatory texts, preparatory and working group documents, and a bibliography of publications (including law review and other journal articles). UNCITRAL’s CLOUT database can be searched for cases on the Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency, most from U.S. courts. UNCITRAL's Status page on the Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency lists countries that have adopted legislation based on the Model Law.
Global Insolvency’s Chapter 15 database has headlines and new filings (with pdf documents), caselaw summaries, and legislative history and commentary.
Bloomberg Law has bankruptcy dockets in Chapter 15 cases in its Practice Center for Bankruptcy. After selecting Chapter 15 cases, narrow your results by date, circuit, state, court, or keyword. Dockets may have links to available documents, and you can request other documents to download if they are available on PACER. The Bankruptcy Practice Center also has recent Chapter 15 filings under Recent Cases & Orders.
Westlaw Practical Law: Cross-Border: Chapter 15: Includes practice notes, case trackers, and standard documents.
Books on Chapter 15 include:
Global Insolvency (ABI & INSOL International joint project): Bankruptcy news plus resource links by country. Global Insolvency has a database of U.S. Chapter 15 cases, plus articles on international insolvency from the ABI Journal.
International Insolvency Institute Resource Library: Links to resources by country, including articles, legislation, and decisions, and articles on international insolvency topics.
European E-Justice Portal: Bankruptcy and insolvency information by European Union member state, with links to insolvency registers and laws by country.
Foreign Law Guide (subscription database): Subject sections for each country include Bankruptcy & Insolvency, with citations to insolvency laws.
Debtor-Creditor Law (Lexis): Part IX is on international insolvency and enforcement of judgments for selected jurisdictions.
The International Insolvency Review: Annual publication with chapters on cross-border insolvencies and insolvency laws of selected countries, available on Wiley Online and on Hein Online.
The Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law (Westlaw) includes developments in Chapter 15 jurisprudence.
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (Hein Online): Find articles on foreign insolvency laws by searching in the subject heading for Bankruptcy and by individual country.
Getting the Deal Through: Restructuring and insolvency Q&A articles by country
Westlaw Practical Law: Cross-Border: Chapter 15: Includes restructuring and insolvency overviews by country
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Canada:
Books on international insolvency law include:
International Insolvency Law by
This book presents problems that often arise in the context of international/cross-border insolvencies; analyzes and compares national legislations and jurisprudence; elucidates the solutions offered by international/regional instruments; and explores the differences in the implementation of these instruments by various countries and the consequences of these differences. It examines in detail a number of famous and less famous cases tried by national courts, in which it became readily apparent that insolvency law remains one of the bastions of national law. In addition, the book discusses the notion of transplanting foreign [international] insolvency rules and especially the influence that US insolvency law has exerted on other countries' insolvency [and international insolvency] law.
Executory Contracts in Insolvency Law: A Global Guide by
Includes national reports by country.
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