Company Directors' Responsibilities to Creditors - Keay, Andrew

Taylor & Francis

Company Directors' Responsibilities to CreditorsAuthor(s): Andrew Keay\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge Cavendish\nISBN-13: 9781845680084, 978-1845680084\nSynopsis\nThis timely work is the first to comprehensively examine directors' responsibilities to creditors in times of financial strife, as well as addressing when these responsibilities arise, and what directors should have to do to ensure that they comply with their obligations. \n\nKeay explores the relevant issues from doctrinal, normative and comparative perspectives and addresses the question as to when directors are liable for wrongful trading, fraudulent trading or breach of their duties to creditors and whether directors should be held responsible for the before mentioned. Besides the relevant UK legislation and case law, legislation and case law from Australia, Canada, Ireland and the United States are examined and compared and reforms which take into account the.