Brave New World for Czech miner as UK scheme sparks cross-border legal battle

In 2014, Eastern Europe’s largest coal miner completed a complex cross-border restructuring by shifting its centre of main interest to London to utilise an English scheme of arrangement; two years later a Czech court has ruled that the deal was unfair, allowing its chief subsidiary to sue the company for close to US$1 billion.

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