Gravenbruch Circle
The Gravenbrucher Kreis is an amalgamation of representatives of leading insolvency firms that carry out restructuring and reorganization of companies in Germany and are also involved in cross-border group insolvencies . These include processes such as Loewe , Philipp Holzmann , Praktiker , Schlecker , Unister or Air Berlin , which receive national media attention.
history
According to its own statements, the district was founded in 1986 on the initiative of the Federal Ministry of Justice. At that time, leading practitioners were asked to contribute their experience and skills to amending bankruptcy law. The Gravenbrucher Kreis accompanied this amendment to insolvency law (1999) as well as the introduction of the ESUG, the law to further facilitate the restructuring of companies (2012) and its evaluation . The research project accompanying the evaluation was completed on April 30, 2018.
In April 2020, the Gravenbrucher Kreis had 30 members (23 active and seven passive). Lucas F. Flöther has been the circle's spokesman since March 2015 .
Goals and content
InsO Excellence
The members of the Gravenbrucher Circle assure companies, creditors and courts of legally secure, transparent and professional procedures. They commit to special quality and performance standards. All members submit to the requirements of InsO Excellence, a certification that is checked annually by independent auditors. According to the district, InsO Excellence is tailored to the specific requirements of insolvency administration, property management and restructuring.
The annual audits cover topics ranging from the organization of the law firm and business continuity to reporting, compliance and data security to the management of insolvency proceedings, dealing with creditors' committees and external communication.
Chart of accounts
The magazine for commercial law shows that the members of the Gravenbrucher Kreis have switched to a chart of accounts specially developed for insolvency accounting in new insolvency proceedings from 2012.
Competitions
Since 2008, the Gravenbrucher Kreis has been awarding a science and journalism prize every two years. The circle awards the prizes, endowed with a total of 20,000 euros, in order to promote science as well as young academics and to honor outstanding journalistic work on the topics of insolvency, reorganization and restructuring.
Prize winners of the Gravenbrucher Kreis Science and Journalism Competition 2018 are:
Science Award 2018
- 1st prize: Patrick Keinert, University of Geneva
- 2nd prize: Tilman Rauhut, University of Mannheim
- 3rd prize: Johannes Richter, University of Bonn
Journalism Prize 2018
- 1st prize: Lars Petersen, BZ
- 2nd prize: team of twelve journalists, Handelsblatt
- 3rd prize: Catherine Hoffmann and Michael Kläsgen, Süddeutsche Zeitung
literature
- Opinion of the Gravenbrucher Kreis on the draft bill of the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection of July 19, 2018 of a First Ordinance amending the Ordinance on Public Notices in Insolvency Proceedings on the Internet (InsoBekV) - as of September 4, 2018, ZInsO - magazine for the entire insolvency - and restructuring law, 2018, pp. 2068–2069
- Gravenbruch Theses: Pre-insolvency restructuring proceedings in Germany? , ZIP - Journal for Business Law , 2017, pp. 203–204
- Pre-insolvency reorganization proceedings in Germany? , ZIP - Journal for Business Law, 2016, pp. 1208–1210
- ESUG: experiences, problems, need for change , theses paper of the Gravenbrucher Kreis, status: October 2015, ZInsO - magazine for the entire insolvency law , 2015, pp. 2173–2178
- ESUG - experiences, problems, need for changes , theses paper of the Gravenbrucher district, as of June 2014, ZInsO - magazine for the entire insolvency law, 2014, pp. 1267–1269
References in case law
- BGH IX. Civil Senate, judgment of April 26, 2018, Az.IX ZR 238/17; ZIP 2018, 977-986
- BAG 6th Senate, judgment of November 19, 2015, Az. 6 AZR 559/14; ZIP 2016, 178-184
- AG Ludwigshafen, decision of April 10, 2015, Az. 3f IN 27/14 Lu; ZIP 2015, 991-992
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Members of the Gravenbrucher Kreis website. Retrieved March 29, 2017
- ↑ Article on DER SPIEGEL website. Retrieved January 23, 2019
- ^ Insolvency and restructuring »Faculty of Law» Bielefeld University. Retrieved January 2, 2019 .
- ^ Members of the Gravenbrucher Kreis website. Retrieved April 20, 2020
- ↑ Gravenbrucher Kreis: Uniform chart of accounts . In: Journal of Business Law . No. 29 , July 22, 2011, ISSN 0723-9416 , p. r056 ( zip-online.de [accessed on July 18, 2017]).
- ^ Directory of journalist awards website. Retrieved January 2, 2019
- ↑ Gravenbrucher Kreis awards science and journalism prize 2018. Accessed on January 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Liability of the management in self-administration . April 26, 2018 ( zip-online.de [accessed January 23, 2019]).
- ↑ Entitlement to the insolvency plan quota despite being excluded from distribution because of missing the deadline for legal action . tape 2016 , 6 AZR 559/14, November 19, 2015, p. 178 ( zip-online.de [accessed on July 18, 2017]).
- ↑ Waiver of judicial final audit in the insolvency plan . tape 2015 , 3 f IN 27/14 Lu, April 10, 2015, p. 991 ( zip-online.de [accessed on July 18, 2017]).