Download or read book Insolvency and Environmental Liability written by Jennifer Klimek and published by Scarborough, Ont. : Carswell. This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Issues in Insolvency Proceedings written by John Barrett and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the October 1996 meeting of the Section on Business Law of the International Bar Association, Committee J presented a programme on environmental issues in insolvency proceedings. The success of the programme encouraged the participants to expand their papers into this book which offers an up-to-date current analysis of the treatment of environmental issues in bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings in six jurisdictions: Canada, Denmark, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. Each of the contributors outline the environmental concerns and legal issues within their jurisdiction, address the insolvency issues that arise and the impact of environmental concerns. The book also includes useful insights from a major international bank - Bank of Nova Scotia - into the handling of international credits where environmental concerns are raised in insolvency proceedings.
Download or read book Environmental Liability in Bankruptcy written by Roy B. True and published by Lrp Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Liability and Real Property Transactions written by Joel S. Moskowitz and published by Wolters Kluwer. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Liability and Real Property Transactions is a must-have guide to managing risk of environment liabilities in real property transactions. It gives you excellent advice on how to conduct due diligence, hire experts, and discover tell-tale signs of environmental trouble. You'll find in-depth coverage of liability defenses, how to limit environmental exposure, and how to manage contaminated property. New sections include information on electromagnetic fields, lead and radon, liability of trustees, and a discussion of different types of insurance. The book also features numerous forms, checklists, and practice pointers.
Download or read book Managing Environmental Liabilities in Bankruptcy written by and published by Thomson West; Aspatore. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing Environmental Liabilities in Bankruptcy provides an authoritative, insiders perspective on best practices for helping clients minimize their environmental liabilities during bankruptcy proceedings. Featuring partners from some of the nations leading law firms, these experts guide the reader through the process of assessing environmental risk and transferring liabilities. These top lawyers reveal their advice for navigating environmental reporting obligations, developing innovative risk transfer strategies, and understanding the conflicting goals of environmental and bankruptcy law in todays legal landscape. From assisting clients in identifying and understanding environmental risks to offering advice to companies emerging from bankruptcy, these authors give tips on how best to manage risk during all stages of the bankruptcy process. Additionally, these leaders discuss recent trends in bankruptcy strategies, including 363 asset sales and pre-packaged and pre-negotiated bankruptcy plans. The different niches represented and the breadth of perspectives presented enable readers to get inside some of the great legal minds of today, as these experienced lawyers offer up their thoughts around the keys to navigating this rapidly-changing area of law.
Download or read book Bankruptcy and Environmental Liability written by Janice Lynne Green and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lender Liability written by John Jarvis (QC.) and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lender Liability is a new and potentially devastating aspect of environmental liability that all those advising corporates and Financial Institutions must be aware of. Co-published by UKELA, the text covers the potentially ruinous litigation that can ensue from ignorance of environmental liability that can be attached to most asset classes, the US experience, civil liability, criminal liability, seizure of profits, the issues for lenders, the relationship with the activity and with land, and self-protection in the form of safe lending and safe debt-collection. As environmental criteria gain increasing importance when deciding upon company acquisitions, insolvencies, and asset-security, this book is essential reading for any corporate, banking, insolvency or environmental lawyer, as well as accountants, bankers and receivers.
Download or read book Environmental Liabilities written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scary Stories and the Limited Liability Polluter in Chapter 11 written by Anne Lawton and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal commentators, policy-makers, and the media argue that the current structures of environmental, bankruptcy, and corporate law permit firms to strategically use bankruptcy to inappropriately displace hundreds of millions of dollars of environmental liability onto taxpayers. However, the proposed solution to this supposed problem - reforming bankruptcy, environmental, and/or corporate law - is draconian, and may cause dramatic and uninteded consequences. Moreover, these demands for reform are occurring in a complete absence of data about whether and to what extent inappropriate strategic use of bankruptcy in this manner actually occurs. We conducted an empirical analysis of Chapter 11 bankruptcies filed in 2004 and closed by mid-2006 to try to determine the extent to which environmental liabilities drive bankruptcy filings, with an eye to examining the following questions. First, how many firms in the data set reported environmental violations, liabilities, or other obligations? Second, of these firms, in how many instances did the environmental issues play a role in the bankruptcy filing? Third, of the firms in which environmental matters caused the bankruptcy filing, in how many cases did the debtor end up shifting the cost of the environmental cleanup to the taxpayer? Fourth, even if environmental obligations did not play a role in the decision to file for bankruptcy, did the debtor avoid paying for environmental remediation either by invoking the Bankruptcy Code's abandonment power or its right to discharge? Finally, is there any evidence that parent corporations are using subsidiaries as a mechanism to siphon off assets, thereby leaving a bankrupt subsidiary with environmental liabilities but no assets with which to satisfy them? Our findings suggest that the strategic use of Chapter 11 to avoid environmental obligations is an uncommon phenomenon. We conclude with suggestions about how to improve the reporting of environmental issues in bankruptcy, and also with a cautionary note about reforming bankruptcy, environmental, or corporate law based on anecdotal, rather than empirical, evidence.
Download or read book Environmental Liabilities written by John B. Stephenson and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The burden of cleaning up Superfund & other haz. waste sites is increasingly shifting to taxpayers, part'y. since bus. handling haz. sub. are no longer taxed under Superfund & the backlog of sites needing cleanup is growing. While environ. laws rely on the polluter paysÓ principle, the extent to which liable parties cease oper. or restructure can directly affect the cleanup costs faced by taxpayers. This report: determines how many bus. with liab. under fed. law for environ. cleanups have declared bankruptcy, & how many such cases the gov't. has pursued in court; identifies challenges the EPA faces in holding bankrupt & other financially distressed bus. resp. for their cleanup oblig.; & identifies actions that EPA could take to ensure that bus. pay for their cleanups.
Download or read book Environmental Liability for Banks written by Joseph Jude Norton and published by Lloyd's of London Press Limited. This book was released on 1995 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text looks at the legal and practical impact of environmental law and regulations on commercial lending arrangements, including their negotiation, structure and documentation. It addresses issues affecting commercial lending on a national, regional and international scale, and with respect both to project financing and to taking collateral security that could be environmentally sensitive.
Download or read book Environmental Protection Producer Insolvency and Lender Liability written by Boyer, Marcel and published by Montréal : CIRANO. This book was released on 1995 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Liability and Environment written by Lucas Bergkamp and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liability and Environment analyzes the role of law, in particular civil liability, in controlling environmental pollution and risk. In modern environmental policy, liability has become a popular instrument. In this book, Prof. Bergkamp takes a fresh look at civil liability for environmental harm in an inter- and transnational context. Over the last decade, industry's liability exposure for environmental harm has expanded significantly. At the international, EC, and national level proposals for onerous strict environmental liability regimes are pending. The `polluter pays principle', which is an articulation of the `cost internalization' theory in the environmental area, is believed to justify such liability regimes. Applying an instrumental approach to legal instruments, Prof. Bergkamp aims to redefine the role of liability in the heavily regulated environmental area. He shows that liability for environmental harm is not justified by the polluter pays principle, is an uncertain and unreliable instrument for achieving prevention, results in an inefficient insurance scheme, and plays a dubious role in adjusting activity levels. Based on an analysis of the basic characteristics of alternative legal instruments, Prof. Bergkamp concludes that civil liability should play a more modest, limited role in an environmental law system dominated by public law. Where deterrence is not the objective, first party insurance, compensation funds, or other public law regimes should be preferred over liability rules. In addition to civil liability of private parties, Liability and Environment discusses State liability under international, EC, and national law. Under international law, breach of a primary obligation triggers a State's liability. Prof. Bergkamp argues that this rule should be applied also to liability of private parties. In the environmental area, a business' primary obligations are spelled out in detailed permit conditions, regulations, and statutes. According to Prof. Bergkamp, only if a primary obligation is breached, a private person should be liable for environmental harm. The system that Bergkamp advocates is an objective fault liability regime, in which public environmental law defines the standard of care for both government and industry. "In rebuilding our civil liability system, we should keep in mind that what is good for industry should be good for everyone (or it is not good for anyone), we should keep in mind that what is good for private parties should be good for the state (or it is not good for either). In rebuilding our civil liability system, the international law of State responsibility, which is unpolluted by risk spreading and activity level considerations, will guide us a long way." This book is aimed at advanced law students, academic scholars, and practitioners. In addition, it will be of interest to policy and legislative analysts, legislators, and government officials. Professor Bergkamp's book cannot be described as "solving" the problems of legal and regulatory control of environmental harm, whether within a nation or internationally. As suggested before, however, the very idea of a "solution" is illusory. All legal and regulatory regimes around the world are today and will remain for the future in a state of perpetually continuing development. The virtue of this fine book is that it moves the process of that development forward by a very substantial measure. from the Foreword by George L. Priest.
Download or read book Environmental Obligations in Bankruptcy written by Kathryn R. Heidt and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bankruptcy and the Enforcement of Environmental Liabilities written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Avoiding Environmental Liability written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bankruptcy and Environmental Liabilities written by CLE international and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
