Corporate restructurings: We can work it out

In this downturn, corporate restructurings will be driven by problems at the banks rather than the struggling companies themselves. Louise Bowman explains why.

New kids on the chopping block

WHEN THE US Congress threw out the bail-out proposal for auto manufacturers Chrysler, Ford and GM in early December, it raised the once unthinkable prospect of these companies entering Chapter 11 insolvency. The logistics involved in trying to restructure their balance sheets do not bear thinking about but the beleaguered state of the US auto industry stands as an example writ large of the kind of problems that will be faced by corporates worldwide in 2009.

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