J Sagar Associates (JSA)
01 June 2019
India has managed to significantly improve its ranking in World Bank’s ease of doing business report – from 130 in 2016 to 77. A major contributor to this is the enactment and implementation of a comprehensive insolvency resolution eco-system through the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC). Breaking the cumbersome, inefficient, subjective, debtor-in-possession model, the IBC ushered in a simple and modern framework which provides certainty of outcome, ensures value maximization for all stakeholders through a time bound process. IBC arguably has improved the credit culture in India.