Douglas Thomson

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• FDIC sells SVB bridge bank, excluding crypto assets
• EU reaches rescue decision on Russian Sberbank’s European arms
• BonelliErede helps rescue Italian Greensill casualty
• Names to know in Brazil
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• Is the best yet to come?
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• Distressed investors on the horizon?
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• Banks and shareholders: where is the leverage?
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• Even the past is uncertain: Brazil Worked Out
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• Paul Hastings hires Winston & Strawn pair
• Construction group wound up in Bermuda after Hong Kong delisting
• Hogan Lovells hires in Hong Kong and promotes in London
• Happy Christmas from GRR
• Alvarez & Marsal makes double Big Four hire in Hong Kong
• Crypto exchange creditors seek founder’s exhumation
• Pooled BVI liquidations seek US recognition
• Schulte Roth & Zabel hires from Freshfields
• British Steel liquidation recognised in Canada
• Bahrain and Saudi Arabia recognised in World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business list
• Lehman sub-loan priority trial begins in London
• Clifford Chance hires in Paris
• GRR Live - IWIRC London: KPMG chief economist opens first Women in Restructuring conference
• Dispute over insolvent crypto platform’s bitcoins leads to Hong Kong freezing order
• Calfee Halter & Griswold opens New York office with McKool hire
• Brown Rudnick hires two from Reed Smith
• Try to be good – avoiding corruption in Indonesia’s restructurings
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• There’s always a deal to be done: conflict and cooperation in Indonesia
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• An unpredictable landscape
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• An unpredictable landscape: Indonesia Worked Out
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• Russian bankrupt’s New York trust validly revoked, SDNY court finds
• Walsh wins IWIRC Asia Woman of the Year
• Chinese court approves personal bankruptcy
• Cayman court authorises Saad distributions pending AHAB appeal
• Fund manager enters Chapter 11 to halt award enforcement
• US attorney sanctioned in Russian Chapter 15 case
• GRR Live, New York: Public debt in Puerto Rico and Venezuela
• One week to go until GRR Live New York
• Australian court finds trust over Ponzi scheme funds
• English court approves bookkeeper discovery out of jurisdiction
• McDermott hires new co-chair
• Indonesian bank guarantors’ bankruptcy recognised in Singapore
• Amazon iron ore mine restructuring approved
• Shook Lin & Bok advising on construction restructuring
• BTG Advisory gains four new partners in London
• III founder member joins White & Case in Berlin
• Zetta trustee’s breach does not justify discovery, Australian court finds
• Oil company directors escape liability over leapfrog restructuring
• Crypto platform wins freezing order in Hong Kong
• Another new Chicago partner for Mayer Brown
• Deutsche petition hits Chinese solar restructuring
• Community roundup: Noerr, Gordon Rees, Holland & Knight, UHY Hacker Young, Fox Rothschild and BDO

• Allen & Overy hires in Hong Kong
• Names to know in Hong Kong and China
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• China – recent cases
• Hong Kong – recent cases
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• China and Hong Kong Worked Out: Imagine there’s no countries
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• China and Hong Kong Worked Out: Singapore’s challenge to Hong Kong
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• “Things have worked because they had to”: restructuring without a regime in Hong Kong
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• China and Hong Kong Worked Out: Headwinds and opportunities in China
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• China and Hong Kong Worked Out: Night of the living debt
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• China and Hong Kong Worked Out: Restructuring and the State
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• China and Hong Kong Worked Out: Changes, hopes and fears in China
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• Changes, hopes and fears: China and Hong Kong Worked Out
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• English court rejects second IVA after good faith breach
• Belgian zinc smelter restructures in London and New York
• Rolf Rattunde 1957-2019
• Steinhoff delays CVA completion again
• Davis Polk promotes four in New York
• Norwegian driller restructures in Jersey
• The 2019 GRR 100 and GRR 30 are out now
• US Supreme Court finds middle way on standard for civil contempt
• Indian miner seeking arbitration over Zambian provisional liquidation
• Mozambique announces new bond deal
• Creditors approve Swiber’s Singaporean plan
• Australia’s ARITA under new leadership
• Ferrier Hodgson appointed over lossmaking Hyflux asset
• New York court refuses summary judgment over “sham” Indonesian PKPU
• Swiber plan published
• R3 appoints Swift as new president
• Dentons partner named Alberta's justice minister
• Heads-Up: Cyril Shroff at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas in Mumbai
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• “Woefully inadequate” disclosure dooms Singapore scheme meeting
• US courts approve McKinsey disclosures settlement
• Oil company chairman bankrupt in Hong Kong over personal guarantee
• GRR Live Singapore: How to turn a bad hand around
• DIFC recognises BVI liquidator
• Airline insolvencies: Germania and Wow shut down in Germany and Iceland
• A&O hires from investment fund in London
• German filmmaker’s estate files Florida Chapter 15
• New York court approves pre-pack for Indonesian shipper
• Cayman conference criticises comity in Congo concealment case
• Parakou vessel arrest undone in South Africa
• Russian real estate debtor pursued over post-insolvency activities
• Engineering company abandons scheme in Singapore
• London judge compels evidence in SDNY Kazakh bank litigation
• Singapore court discharges injunction against Mexican proceedings
• Environmental obligations survive bankruptcy, Canadian Supreme Court rules
• Say a little prayer: Insolvent fund escapes award enforcement
• Mourant promotes recent hire
• Dusk for solar company’s Chapter 15
• Manx court refuses to order director testimony