Browsing by Author Lasák, Jan
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In the course of the Covid-19 global pandemic, corporate restructuring laws worldwide underwent a stress test as the financial health of companies significantly deteriorated. In response to public demand, legislators in the Czech Republic adopted various bail-out programmes and bail-in measures in order to provide debtors who ran into temporary problems in connection with the Covid-19 pandemic with additional protection against individual creditors to help solve their financial troubles. This paper outlines the various bail-in and bail-out measures that were introduced during the critical phase of the pandemic in 2020–2021 and analyses the extraordinary measures that were adopted in t... |
This article maps the development of Czech corporate law after 1989 against the backdrop of the gradual change of private law and its paradigms as well as considering especially the influence and use of corporate governance soft law. It describes some of the economic, political and social reasons that slowed down or marginalized the relevance of OECD Corporate Governance Principles after the transition of Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic to democratic law. At the same time, the article attempts to show that while the gradual recodification of corporate law, in particular corporate governance rules, did not provide much support for the use of corporate governance codes, it n... |
