Sovereign Debt Management
Sovereign debt is a complex and highly topical area of law and this work represents a
new main reference book on the subject bringing together contributions from world leading
practitioners, scholars and regulators. Divided into five parts the book opens with a part
on restructuring which analyses contractual provisions and the role of institutions such
as the International Monetary Fund. The second part, on enforcement, considers the
position of a sovereign as a defendant analyzing the availability of special immunities
and matters of defense and arbitration pertinent to sovereign debt. Part three of the book
is concerned with complicating factors such as economic, political or banking crises and
how these relate and complicate the task of addressing an unsustainable sovereign debt
stock. In this section the particular and topical issues concerned with restructuring in a
monetary union are explained. The fourth part provides economists' explanations of why and
how sovereigns borrow and the causes of a sovereign debt, which enriches understanding by
providing context to the purely legal aspects of the work. The book closes with a section
which covers proposed reform to sovereign debt systems. Dedicated to the leading expert
Lee Buchheit, this work contains comprehensive and rigorous analysis on sovereign debt
management which no specialist should be without. To say that the book is a brilliant and
time-saving research tool is a bit of an understatement, for the amount of research
contained in this single volume is truly mind-bending. ... This is certainly an invaluable
source of wisdom and insight into the thorny problems created by international debt which
now aflicts developed as well as emerging countries. Phillip Taylor MBE
PART I - SOVEREIGN DEBT RESTRUCTURING ; 1. Minimising Hold Out Creditors: Sticks ; 2.
Minimising Hold Out Creditors: Carrots ; 3. Managing Hold-outs: The case of the 2012 Greek
Exchange ; 4. Revisiting the pari passu clause ; 5. The Role of the IMF ; 6. Debt Relief
for Low Income Countries ; 7. The Longer Term Consequences of Sovereign Debt Restructuring
;
PART II - ENFORCEMENT OF SOVEREIGN DEBT ; 8. Defences ; 9. Special Immunities: Central
Bank Immunity ; 10. Special Immunities: Bank for International Settlements ; 11. Creditor
Remedies ; 12. Sovereign Arbitration ;
PART III - COMPLICATING FACTORS ; 13. Restructuring in a Monetary Union: Legal Aspects
; 14. Restructuring in a Monetary Union: Economic Aspects ; 15. Sovereign Debt and Banking
Crises: An 'Arial View' ; 16. International Leader of Last Resort ; 17. Odious Debt ; 18.
Sovereign Contingent Liabilites ;
PART IV - ECONOMICS OF SOVEREIGN BORROWING ; 19. Why Governments Default ; 20.
Sovereign Debt Markets ; 21. Borrowing and Debt: How sovereigns get into trouble ;
PART V - PROPOSALS TO REFORM SOVEREIGN DEBT SYSTEMS ; 22. Statutory Sovereign Debt
Resolution Mechanisms (SDRM) ; 23. Debt Restructuring and Economic Recovery ; 24.
Corporate Bankruptcy Law and State Insolvencies ; 25. European Collective Action Clauses ;
26. Euro Zone Financial Rescue and Stabilization Measures and their Legal Foundations ;
27. UNCTAD Principles on Responsible Sovereign Financing ; 28. Sovereign Debt in the Light
of Eternity
544 pages, Hardcover