Features

Partner Bruce MacNeil and managing associate James Lydeard at Ogier observe what makes the use of Jersey-incorporated acquisition and holding vehicles attractive for international restructuring transactions featuring debt for equity swaps, amid the emergence of a growing trend.

26 March 2021

Featured in Covid-19 calls

Fried Frank restructuring and insolvency partners Ashley Katz and Mandip Englund give their views on the UK’s new pre-pack regulations and why a clear plan is needed to save businesses when an “artificial and unsustainable” bubble created by government support packages bursts.

22 March 2021

While the government has extended its protections for commercial tenants once more, partner Roger Schofield, counsel Katharina Crinson and associate Nicholas Cooper at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London say it’s a matter of “when” not “if” the UK will see more CVAs – and potentially restructuring plans – targeting rental obligations.

18 March 2021

Featured in Heads-Up

A few months after taking over as Piper Sandler’s global head of restructuring, veteran Wall Street banker Todd Snyder speaks to GRR about a potential boom in infrastructure investment, why sub-Saharan Africa is a likely place for new investment activity and his “almost religious” belief in the importance of restructuring to the good functioning of the free market.

15 March 2021

Allen & Overy partner Jennifer Marshall and associate Harini Viswanathan consider what the Gategroup convening judgment that found UK restructuring plans to be an “insolvency proceeding” for the purposes of the Lugano Convention means for the aviation sector – especially creditors with registered interests under the Cape Town Convention.

12 March 2021

Earlier this year, the BVI Commercial Court delivered its first ever written judgment on whether jurisdiction exists to make a committal order against a personal judgment debtor who is not domiciled or resident in the BVI. Kobre & Kim's John Han, Merrick Watson and Timothy de Swardt explain how the ruling came about and how significant it is for the territory.

09 March 2021

Featured in Heads-Up

“Many people are going to be sympathetic to the plight of those forced into potential insolvency by the pandemic, but the reality is there'll be lots of restructurings.” Simon Bushell, co-founding partner at Seladore Legal in London, discusses his career as a disputes lawyer specialising in cross-border fraud and asset recovery – and his recent use of cross-border insolvency tools with the aim of helping a Russian bankruptcy trustee realise assets across Europe.

05 March 2021

Collas Crill recently brought a novel, successful application to appoint receivers over a promissory note and reconstitute a breach of a Jersey trust in the context of a bitter international family dispute. Group partners Sam Williams and Simon Hurry, who respectively brought the application, and led a team on behalf of the receivers in world-wide enforcement and recovery proceedings, discuss this first instance of a Jersey Court appointing receivers in aid of equitable execution.

04 March 2021

Bob Wessels, professor emeritus of international insolvency law at Leiden University and expert counsel on restructuring and insolvency to the European Commission, comments on a hotly topical debate.

02 March 2021

Featured in Worked Out

GRR turns to Canada for the latest instalment of its Worked Out series, where restructuring professionals face a boom from the newly legalised cannabis industry as they sense the opportunity to attract work from their US neighbours. We talked to practitioners in Toronto, Edmonton and Vancouver to find out more.

19 February 2021