International Report: "Corporate Bankruptcy Tourists"Wall Street Journal, October 29, 2014. By Stephanie Gleason
"The U.S. Bankruptcy Code isn’t just for companies in the U.S. A new report from scholars Oscar Couwenberg of University of Groningen Faculty of Law in the Netherlands and Stephen J. Lubben of Seton Hall University School of Law in New Jersey identified 49 corporate bankruptcy filings between 2005 and 2012 that included foreign debtors. Of those, 15 had no U.S. parent company.
The U.S. Bankruptcy Code has been interpreted to qualify companies with as little as a U.S. bank account and will reorganize assets anywhere in the world. So with the explosion of high-yield debt in Europe, European companies burdened with bond debt are expected to come to the U.S. to reorganize with increasing frequency, according to the report."
