Intercreditor Distribution in Sovereign Debt Restructuring
Abstract
Intercreditor equity represents one of the main objectives of bankruptcy proceedings. Yet, recent restructurings of sovereign debt suggest that violation of intercreditor equity is common. While existing contractual provisions, and guidelines issued by creditor committees, establish fundamental principles about creditor treatment, they seem to remain too vague to guide debt restructuring processes effectively. The paper focuses on distribution, and argues that lack of clear guidelines for distribution may complicate and delay the resolution process and induce undue uncertainty about the predictability and viability of the restructuring outcome. The paper discusses and proposes parameters which may contribute to establishing explicit principles for the assessment of intercreditor equity in distribution.Download Info
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Paper provided by International Monetary Fund in its series IMF Working Papers with number 04/183.Length: 23
Date of creation: 01 Sep 2004
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Keywords: Paris Club; Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism;This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:
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- Aitor Erce, 2012. "Selective sovereign defaults," Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper 127, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
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