Background: A business rescue plan has to comply with a new and vague set of obligations regulated by South African legislation. Expectations of the plan are largely unknown, yet crucial in determining compliance. Establishing an effective benchmark for the plan is essential for the growth and success of the industry. Purpose: The study set out to answer these questions: What are the most crucial elements needed to fill the gap between the specifics of the Companies Act (2008) and the further elements needed to meet the plan’s primary objective of providing adequate information to stakeholders? What are the international principles applicable to rehabilitation plans and what elements underpin them? Method: Thirteen industry experts were selected and interviewed to identify the most crucial elements of the business rescue plan. Sampling was a combination of convenience and purposive sampling. Data collection obtained data on subjects’ opinions, rankings, agreement and ratings. Results: The study was able to confirm that there is indeed a gap between the mandatory elements prescribed in section 150(2) and the provision of sufficient information required by section 150(1) of the Companies Act No. 71 of 2008. The survey revealed that in the subjects’ expert opinion, the international principles are applicable to the business rescue plan. Conclusion: The crucial elements of the rehabilitation plan selected by the experts offer insight and clarity in terms of what is expected of the plan. / Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2014 / gm2015 / Business Management / MCom / Unrestricted

Souvent mis en évidence pour leur caractère asymétrique, les rapports qu’entretiennent le droit commun descontrats et le droit des entreprises en difficulté laissent dans l’ombre les liens pouvant subsister entre latechnique contractuelle et les difficultés pouvant être supportées par une entreprise. La mise en lumière de cesliens est l’objet de la présente étude. La technique contractuelle, perçue comme les clauses du contrat et lamanière des les rédiger, paraît occuper en premier lieu, une fonction anticipative des difficultés pouvant êtresupportées par une entreprise. Si dans les esprits, la crise est généralement considérée comme le facteurprincipal de défaillance des entreprises, il apparaît en réalité que les évènements se trouvant à l’origine de cesdifficultés peuvent être de diverses natures. Il en serait ainsi par exemple, de l’exécution d’un contrat rendueexcessivement onéreuse par la survenance d’un événement indépendant de la volonté des parties au stade deson exécution. De même, l’inexécution d’un contrat d’une importance particulière pour une entreprise pourraitégalement constituer un facteur de difficultés. Au stade de la formation du contrat, la technique contractuellepourrait permettre d’anticiper ces difficultés. Cette fonction anticipative ne doit toutefois pas conduire àignorer le rôle pouvant être occupé par certaines clauses dans la défaillance des entreprises, qu’ellesconstituent un effet repoussoir en conduisant le dirigeant à retarder le moment où il sollicitera l’ouvertured’une procédure de traitement des difficultés supportées par son entreprise, ou qu’elle constitue un obstacle àson sauvetage lorsque l’entreprise fait déjà l’objet de cette procédure. / Often highlighted for their asymmetrical nature, the relations between the law of contracts and the insolvencylaw leaves out the links that may exist between clauses of the contract and the difficulties that can besupported by a company. The highlighting of these links is the subject of this study. Clauses of contract seemto occupy in the first place, an anticipatory function of the difficulties that can be supported by a company. Ifin the minds, the crisis is generally considered as the main factor of failure, it actually appears that the eventsat the origin of the difficulties can be of various natures. This would be the case, for example, of theperformance of a contract rendered excessively onerous by the occurrence of an event beyond the control ofthe parties at the stage of its execution. Similarly, the non-performance of a contract of particular importanceto a company could also be a factor of difficulties. At the contract formation stage, some clauses could make itpossible to anticipate these difficulties. This anticipatory function must not, however, lead to ignoring the rolethat certain clauses may play in the failure of a company. Sometimes these clauses will constitute an obstacleto the early treatment of the difficulties. Other times they will be an obstacle to his rescue.

Comme un organisme vivant, l'entreprise naît, vit, et peut être le siège de désordres divers, dont les plus graves sont susceptibles de provoquer sa disparition. Ce qui ne saurait laisser indifférent tout législateur soucieux de l'équilibre socioéconomique et de la sécurité des transactions. C'est ainsi que de nos jours, la finalité traditionnelle du droit de la faillite, à savoir, le désintéressement des créanciers, sans pour autant disparaître complètement, est passé au second plan, derrière le souci de la sauvegarde et de la continuité de l'exploitation commerciale. Divers instruments juridiques sont alors déployés dans le but d'éviter la cessation des paiements du débiteur qui connaît des difficultés.C'est dans ce contexte que s'inscrit le concordat préventif prévu par l'Acte Uniforme de l'OHADA, relatif au droit des procédures collectives d'apurement du passif. Il s'agit d'un instrument de nature hybride, mi-conventionnel, mi-judiciaire, accordé à l'issue d'une procédure dite de règlement préventif au débiteur qui, sans être en cessation des paiements, connaît une situation économique et financière difficile, mais non irrémédiablement compromise. C'est donc un accord librement négocié et arrêté entre le débiteur et certains de ces créanciers et auquel l'intervention du juge confère la force exécutoire. Toutefois, le dispositif mis en place par le législateur africain souffre de certaines carences de nature à l'empêcher d'atteindre son but de prévention et de résolution des difficultés des entreprises. L'une des causes de l'inefficacité du concordat préventif est l'imprécision du critère d'admissibilité, ce qui a pour effet une ouverture tardive du processus, qui, à son tour, influe négativement sur l'exécution du concordat une fois conclu et homologué. Il s'est dès lors avéré utile d'explorer de nouvelles pistes pouvant conduire à une plus grande efficacité en matière de sauvegarde des entreprises en difficulté dans l'espace OHADA. / As a living organism, the company is born, lives, and may be the seat of various disorders which most serious may lead to its disappearance. That does not leave indifferent any legislator concerned about the socio-economic balance and transaction security. So nowadays, the traditional purpose of bankruptcy law, that is the creditors' satisfaction, without disappearing entirely, is relegated to the background, behind the concern for the preservation and continuity of commercial exploitation. Various legal instruments were deployed in order to avoid the bankruptcy of the debtor that is experiencing difficulties.It is in this context that the preventive arrangement with creditors under the Uniform Act of OHADA, on the right of collective procedures for settlement of liabilities. It is an instrument of hybrid nature, half conventional, half-judiciary, granted after a procedure known as preventive arrangement procedure, to a debtor who, without being insolvent, is experiencing economic and financial difficulties, which are not without remedy. This is an agreement freely negotiated and agreed between the debtor and some of his creditors, to which judicial intervention confers binding. However, the mechanism put in place by the Uniform Act of OHADA suffers some deficiencies such as to prevent it from reaching its goal of preventing and solving business problems. One reason for the ineffectiveness of the arrangement with creditors' procedure is the vagueness of the eligibility criterion, which has the effect of opening late in the process, which, in turn, adversely affects the performance of the concordat once concluded and approved. It is therefore proved useful to explore new avenues that can lead to greater efficiency in safeguarding firms in difficulty in the OHADA area.

No abstract available / Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / gm2014 / Mercantile Law / unrestricted

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