Carve-out is a relatively new notion of status transformation or way of company division in Slovenian economic legislation. In general economic legislation, the carve-out was introduced in 2008 with the amendment of the Companies Act (ZGD-1B). The key difference between carve-out and other forms of company division is in ownership of shares in the acquiring or newly established company, since the shares in the acquiring or newly established company are entitled to the transferring company itself and not to its owners.
Only with the penultimate amendment of the Financial Operations, Insolvency Proceedings and Compulsory Winding-up Act (ZFPPIPP-F), which came into force at the end of 2013 as a response to the difficulties that the Slovenian economy has suffered in the recent economic crisis, the compulsory settlement with the financial restructuring with carve-out was introduced into Slovenian insolvency legislation. The key purpose of this measure is to maintain the healthy cores of the insolvent company, to enable their further business and their sale, with a view to repay the creditors.
The purpose of the thesis is to compare the carve-out in the economic and in the insolvency legislation and to present the key differences between the arrangements in both acts. The key regulation of the carve-out is described in the Companies Act (ZGD-1). However, there are differences in the regulation, which are the result of the different circumstances in which the carve-out is performed. The different arrangements of the carve-out in both acts are the result of the adaptation of the carve-out for the use in the insolvency procedure; otherwise, in full reference to the Companies Act (ZGD-1) carve-out provisions, the use of the carve-out would not be possible or reasonable in insolvency proceedings. In any case, the introduction of the carve-out represents a positive shift in the development of the Slovenian economic and insolvency legislation.
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