»Shareholder Loans in the Context of Private Equity Transactions«: The granting of shareholder
loans plays an important role in the context of leveraged private equity transactions and
becomes particularly significant in the event of the company's insolvency. On the basis of the
systematics of shareholder loan law and the statutory level of creditor protection the paper
explores the limits of any special treatment of shareholder loans in leveraged private equity
transactions under insolvency law taking a look at the typical practical constellations.
