Riz Mokal

South Square Chambers

Barrister

3-4 South Square

Gray's Inn

London, WC1R 5HP

United Kingdom

http://southsquare.com/barristers/riz-mokal/

University College London (UCL) - Faculty of Laws

Honorary Professor

Gower St

London WC1E OEG, WC1E 6BT

United Kingdom

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/

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1.

The Valuation of Distressed Companies - a Conceptual Framework

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 25 Jan 2006
Michael Crystal Q. C. and Riz Mokal
3-4 South Square Barristers and South Square Chambers
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Motivation costs, coordination costs, goving concern value, liquidation value, enterprise value, market value, economic distress, financial distress, fire-sale, adverse selection, large-block stock transactions, market comparison approach, comparable company approach, discounted cash flow approach

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The Floating Charge - an Elegy

COMMERCIAL LAW AND COMMERCIAL PRACTICE, Sarah Worthington, ed., Oxford: Hart, August 2003
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 14 Apr 2004
Riz Mokal
South Square Chambers
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Administration, administrative receivership, receiver and manager, concentrated creditor theory, registration, encumbrance, financial agency costs, monitoring

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Consistency of Principle in Corporate Insolvency

Number of pages: 281 Posted: 19 Mar 2002
Riz Mokal
South Square Chambers
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Insolvency law, fairness, efficiency, Creditors' Bargain, Authentic Consent Model, pari passu, security, equality, UK law

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Reforming the Governance of Corporate Rescue: The Enterprise Act 2002

ESRC Centre for Business Research Working Paper No. 288
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 25 Jul 2004
John Armour and Riz Mokal
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law and South Square Chambers
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Corporate insolvency, corporate rescue, secured credit

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Liquidation Expenses and Floating Charges - the Separate Funds Fallacy

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 21 Apr 2004
Riz Mokal and Look Chan Ho
South Square Chambers and Des Voeux Chambers
Downloads 1,333 (17,305)
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Transactions at an undervalue, Priority-based and priority-independent security interests, Public functions of liquidation proceedings, Funding of collective insolvency proceedings, Enterprise Act 2002

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Charges Over Chattels - Issues in the Fixed/Floating Jurisprudence

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 28 Sep 2004
Stephen Atherton and Riz Mokal
Chambers of Michael Crystal QC and South Square Chambers
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Agnew, Brumark

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Priority as Pathology: The Pari Passu Myth

Cambridge Law Journal, Vol. 60, Part 3, November 2001
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 20 Apr 2002 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2009
Riz Mokal
South Square Chambers
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bankruptcy, liquidation, insolvency, rateable distribution, pari passu, preferential claims, English law

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Administration and Administrative Receivership - an Analysis

Current Legal Problems, Vol. 57, 2004
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 03 Jan 2004
Riz Mokal
South Square Chambers
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Concentrated creditor, Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA), financial and economic distress, company rescue as opposed to business rescue

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The New UK Corporate Rescue Procedure - the Administrator's Duty to Act Rationally

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 16 May 2004
Riz Mokal and John Armour
South Square Chambers and University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
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Rule in Hastings-Bass, Stannard v Fisons Pensions Trust Ltd, objective or subjective standard

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On Fairness and Efficiency

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 10 Mar 2003
Riz Mokal
South Square Chambers
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The Harm Done by Administrative Receivership

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 26 Jul 2004
Riz Mokal
South Square Chambers
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Contractarianism, Contractualism, and the Law of Corporate Insolvency

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Contractarianism, Contractualism, and the Law of Corporate Insolvency

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 22 Nov 2006
Riz Mokal
South Square Chambers
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Anthony Duggan, Thomas Jackson, Douglas Baird

Contractarianism, Contractualism, and the Law of Corporate Insolvency

Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, pp. 51-95, July 2007
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 17 Dec 2007
Riz Mokal
South Square Chambers
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What Liquidation Does for Secured Creditors, and What it Does for You

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What Liquidation Does for Secured Creditors, and What it Does for You

Modern Law Review, Vol. 71, pp. 699-733, 2008
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 13 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2009
Riz Mokal
South Square Chambers
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Buchler v. Talbot, re Leyland Daf, John Armour, Adrian Walters

What Liquidation Does for Secured Creditors, and What it Does for You

Modern Law Review, Vol. 71, Issue 5, pp. 699-733, September 2008
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 22 Aug 2008
Riz Mokal
South Square Chambers
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The Authentic Consent Model: Contractarianism, Creditors' Bargain, and Corporate Liquidation

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The Authentic Consent Model: Contractarianism, Creditors' Bargain, and Corporate Liquidation

Legal Studies, Vol. 21, No. 3, Pp. 400-443, September 2001
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 04 Feb 2004
Riz Mokal
South Square Chambers
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The Authentic Consent Model: Contractarianism, Creditors' Bargain, and Corporate Liquidation

Legal Studies, Volume 21, Issue 3, pages 400–443, September 2001
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 01 Apr 2002 Last Revised: 24 Nov 2015
Riz Mokal
South Square Chambers
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insolvency, bankruptcy, corporate liquidation, fairness, Creditors' Bargain

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Barber V. Ci - Preference Equals Undervalue?

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 13 Sep 2006
Look Chan Ho and Riz Mokal
Des Voeux Chambers and South Square Chambers
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Preference, Transaction at an Undervalue, Fraudulent Conveyance, Overlap between Sections 238 and 239 of the UK Insolvency Act 1986, Defences, Authorities on US Bankruptcy Code

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Liquidity, Systemic Risk, and the Bankruptcy Treatment of Financial Contracts

10 Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial and Commercial Law (2015)
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 23 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 07 Jan 2016
Riz Mokal
South Square Chambers
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UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Insolvency, UNDROIT Principles on the Operation of Close-out Netting Provisions, World Bank Insolvency and Creditor/Debtor Rights Principles, EU Financial Collateral Directive, EU Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive, Risk amplifiers, Financial system vulnerabilities

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Interplay of CVA, Administration and Liquidation

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 18 Nov 2002
Riz Mokal and Look Chan Ho
South Square Chambers and Des Voeux Chambers
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English insolvency law, pari passu, Company Voluntary Arrangement, administration, liquidation, tort creditors, formal equality, judicial cramdown

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The Pari Passu Principle in English Ancillary Proceedings: Re Home Insurance Company

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 22 Nov 2005
Riz Mokal and Look Chan Ho
South Square Chambers and Des Voeux Chambers
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English insolvency law, English insolvency proceedings, ancillary proceedings, pari passu principle

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At the Intersection of Property and Insolvency: The Insolvent Company's Encumbered Assets

Singapore Academy of Law Journal, Forthcoming, University College London Law Research Paper No. 09-01
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 25 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2008
Riz Mokal
South Square Chambers
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Buchler v Talbot, re Leyland Daf, John Armour, Adrian Walters

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The Search for Someone to Save: A Defensive Case for the Priority of Secured Credit

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The Search for Someone to Save: A Defensive Case for the Priority of Secured Credit

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 19 Mar 2002
Riz Mokal
South Square Chambers
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The Search for Someone to Save: A Defensive Case for the Priority of Secured Credit

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. , pp. -,
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Riz Mokal
South Square Chambers

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The Search for Someone to Save: A Defensive Case for the Priority of Secured Credit

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 22, Winter 2002
Posted: 22 Apr 2002
Riz Mokal
South Square Chambers

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Best Practices in European Restructuring - Contractualised Distress Resolution in the Shadow of the Law

Number of pages: 289 Posted: 15 Nov 2018
Lorenzo Stanghellini, Riz Mokal, Christoph G. Paulus and Ignacio Tirado
University of Florence - Dipartimento di Diritto privato, South Square Chambers, Humboldt University of Berlin and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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Business Restructuring, Rescue, Preventive Proceedings, Pre-Insolvency Processes, Best Practices, Policy Recommendations

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Resolving the Ms Fashions 'Paradox'

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 21 May 2004
Riz Mokal
South Square Chambers
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The Modular Approach to Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Insolvency

Number of pages: 122 Posted: 26 Jan 2017
Ronald B. Davis, Stephan Madaus, Alberto Mazzoni, Irit Mevorach, Riz Mokal, Barbara Romanine, Janis P. Sarra and Ignacio Tirado
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Faculty of Law, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Catholic University of Milan, University of Nottingham, South Square Chambers, Alberta Court of Queen's Bench, University of British Columbia (UBC), Faculty of Law and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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An Agency Cost Analysis of the Wrongful Trading Provisions: Redistribution, Perverse Incentives, and the Creditors' Bargain

Cambridge Law Journal, Vol. 59, July 2000
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 09 May 2002 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2009
Riz Mokal
South Square Chambers
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Consideration, Characterisation, Evaluation: Transactions at an Undervalue after Phillips V Brewin

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 01 Apr 2002
Riz Mokal and Look Chan Ho
South Square Chambers and Des Voeux Chambers
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English law, corporate insolvency, bankruptcy, fraudulent preference law

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Shopping and Scheming, and the Rule in Gibbs

South Square Digest, March 2017, 58-63
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 24 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2017
Riz Mokal
South Square Chambers
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The Two Conditions for the Part 26A Cram Down

(2020) 35(11) Journal of International Banking & Financial Law 730 (December 2020)
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 14 Dec 2020
Riz Mokal
South Square Chambers
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The Difficulties with 'Financial Difficulties': The Threshold Conditions for the New Part 26A Process

(2020) 35(10) Journal of International Banking & Financial Law 662 (November 2020)
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 30 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 30 Nov 2020
Riz Mokal
South Square Chambers
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Scheme of arrangement, cross-class cram down

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The Court's Discretion in Relation to the Part 26A Cram Down

(2021) 36(1) Journal of International Banking and Financial Law (January 2021)
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 14 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2021
Riz Mokal
South Square Chambers
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Relative Priority Rule, EU Preventive Restructuring Framework Directive

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Corporate Insolvency Law - Theory and Application

Posted: 14 Apr 2005
Riz Mokal
South Square Chambers

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Consideration, Characterisation, Evaluation: Transactions at an Undervalue after 'Phillips V Brewin Dolphin'

Journal of Corporate Law Studies, Vol. 2001, No. 2, December 2001
Posted: 15 Apr 2002
Riz Mokal and Look Chan Ho
South Square Chambers and Des Voeux Chambers

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bankruptcy; undervalue transactions