Riz Mokal

South Square Chambers

Barrister

3-4 South Square

Gray's Inn

London, WC1R 5HP

United Kingdom

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

Centre of Commercial Law, School of Law, University of Aberdeen

Taylor Building

King's College

Aberdeen , Scotland AB24 3UB

United Kingdom

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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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 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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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
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South Square Chambers

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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 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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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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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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What is an Insolvency Proceeding? Gategroup Lands in a Gated Community

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 28 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2023
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 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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Does the Liquidator Have a Duty to Deal with Trust Property?

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 08 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2022
Riz Mokal
South Square Chambers
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Preservation function, distribution function, investigation function, duty to act responsibly

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Corporate Insolvency Law - Theory and Application

Posted: 14 Apr 2005
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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