Corporate restructuring : lessons from experience / edited by Michael Pomerleano, William Shaw.

Presentations from a conference, "Corporate Restructuring--International Best Practices," hosted in March 2004 by the World Bank Group and held in Washington, D.C.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : toward better practices in systemic corporate restructuring / Michael Pomerleano -- Ch. 1. Synopsis of conference papers / William Shaw -- Ch. 2. Policy approaches to corporate restructuring around the world : what worked, what failed? / Stijn Claessens -- Ch. 3. Recent international experiences in the use of voluntary workouts under distressed conditions / Ira Lieberman, Mario Gobbo, William P. Mako and Ruth L. Neyens -- Ch. 4. Emerging-market and crisis applications for out-of-court workouts : lessons from East Asia, 1998-2001 / William P. Mako -- Ch. 5. Are more restructuring regimes becoming like the U.S. Chapter 11 system? / James H. Zukin, Alan Fragen and Dorian Lowell -- Ch. 6. The successful asset management companies / Ruth L. Neyens, Dato Zukri Samat, Beom Choi, Yang Kaisheng and Shinjiro Takagi -- Ch. 7. Progress toward the resolution of nonperforming loans / Jack Rodman -- Ch. 8. Restructuring in weak legal and regulatory jurisdictions : the case of Indonesian restructuring / Ray Davis -- Ch. 9. Government policy responses in Korea / Hogen Oh -- Ch. 10. Malaysia's experience with corporate restructuring / Dato Zainal Abidin Putih -- Ch. 11. An alternative approach to government management companies : the Mellon approach / Richard H. Daniel -- Ch. 12. Corporate restructuring funds : the lessons from Korea / Christopher Vale -- Ch. 13. Debt and firm vulnerability / Jack Glen -- Ch. 14. The contingent claims approach to corporate vulnerability analysis : estimating default risk and economywide risk transfer / Michael T. Gapen, Dale F. Gray, Cheng Hoon Lim and Yingbin Xiao -- Ch. 15. Developing an effective framework for insolvency and credit rights / Gordon W. Johnson -- App. 1. Financial restructuring : techniques and negotiating dynamics / Alan D. Fragen.