Reinhard Bork is Professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany and is a respected scholar in insolvency law in Germany. He has been a judge of the Upper State Court in Hamburg. He has published widely in German and in English and is the author of Rescuing Companies in England and Germany with OUP in 2012, as well as co-author of European Cross-Border Insolvency Law in 2016. Kristin van Zwieten is Professor of Law and Finance at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Harris Manchester College. She was previously John Collier Fellow in Law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Prior to her academic career, she trained as a solicitor in an Australian corporate law firm.