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What is an insolvency proceeding?
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To the question in the title, one may be forgiven the innocent response “Who cares?”. In fact, the question matters for all the reasons that legal categorisation matters, and it matters particularly clearly in the context of insolvency. In this article I explain the importance of the question. (This article is adapted from a longer piece which draws on functional, historical, comparative and doctrinal analyses.1)
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