Bachelor Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 1,7, LMU Munich (Institute for Finance & Banking), language: English, abstract: This thesis aims at delivering a documentation as complete as possible of bankruptcy events of formerly listed French companies over the time period from 1990 to 2009. The generated dataset is analyzed in detail with regard to changes in the French insolvency framework over a twenty-year timeframe.