This major new practitioner work provides detailed analysis of the EU Directives 2001/17 and 2001/24 on the Reorganisation and Winding-up of Insurance Undertakings and Credit Institutions. Top experts look at the considerable impact both Directives have upon the role of the supervisory authorities in the EU insurance and banking market.About the Author: Gabriel Moss QC studied Law at St Catherine's College, Oxford, graduating in 1971. He was called to the Bar in 1974 and appointed Queen's Counsel in 1989. In 1998 he was elected a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn and was authorised to sit as a Deputy High Court Judge in 2001. He is a practising barrister specialising in business and financial law, and in particular insolvency and commercial/company matters. Gabriel Moss has written widely on insolvency and sits on several editorial advisory boards on the subject Professor R Wessels is a well-known insolvency lawyer in the Netherlands and is widely published on European insolvency law. He is Adjunct Professor and Visiting Scholar 2004-2005 on International Insolvency Law, St.John's School of Law, Queens, New York, USA.