The roots of corporate insolvency law -- Aims, objectives and benchmarks -- Insolvency and corporate borrowing -- Corporate failure -- Insolvency practitioners and turnaround professionals -- Rescue -- Informal rescue -- Receivers and their role -- Administration -- Pre-packaged administrations -- Company arrangements -- Rethinking rescue -- Gathering the assets: the role of liquidation -- The pari passu principle -- Bypassing pari passu -- Directors in troubled times -- Employees in distress -- Conclusion.