The introduction of the pre-bankruptcy settlement procedure as an instrument to enable the continuation of operations of entities facing liquidity and solvency challenges has generated a strong resonance in the domestic public. The present proceedings have been subject to many criticisms from the very beginning of its application and doubts about its effectiveness were often expressed. In this paper, the author attempts to analyse the full effect of the conducted pre-bankruptcy proceedings with sufficient time delay in relation to the continuation of the business of the entities that participated in the proceedings. The paper will present an overview of the legislative framework governing the pre-bankruptcy settlement procedure in the period when pre-bankruptcy proceedings were opened on analysed entities (2012 and 2013), the novelties introduced by the adoption of The Bankruptcy Act in 2015 and analyse the collected data on the hundred domestic business entities that participated in the pre-bankruptcy settlement procedure.