Worked examples or Exercises; Worked examples or Exercises
Publishing Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date
22 September 2022
Publication Country
United Kingdom
Description
The first two decades of the twenty-first century witnessed a series of large-scale sovereign defaults and debt restructurings, in which sovereigns struggled to negotiate with recalcitrant bondholders, particularly hedge funds. Also, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 heralded a bleak financial outlook for many developing and emerging market countries, requiring sovereign debt restructuring in times of great macroeconomic uncertainty. Given the absence of a multilateral mechanism for sovereign debt restructuring equivalent to domestic corporate bankruptcy system, however, defaulted sovereigns often suffer from holdout litigation wrought by bondholders. This book proposes ways in which such legal actions could be regulated without the undue expense of bondholders' remedies by exploring the mechanism of balancing bondholder protection and respect for sovereign debt restructuring at various stages of litigation and arbitration proceedings.
Author Biography
Kei Nakajima is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Tokyo. Previously he worked at the International Court of Justice in The Hague as an Associate Legal Officer for several judges. Kei completed his two doctoral studies in Tokyo and Geneva.