Features

Following the “path-breaking” restructuring of Dewan Housing Finance Corporation and the ongoing resolution process for Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services, New Delhi-based Utkal Law Chambers partner Supriyo Ranjan Mahapatra discusses recent trends in the resolution framework for distressed non-banking financial companies in India.

11 October 2021

Associate Katie Crispi at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath in London explains why restructuring professionals should be paying close attention to the evolution of sustainable debt.

07 October 2021

Partner Stephen Alexander and associate Stephan Venter at Mourant in Jersey examine the growing practice of insolvency forum shopping and explain how Jersey’s Royal Court approached the subject in the recent Investin case.

04 October 2021

Edwin Tong SC, a former head of restructuring and corporate insolvency at Allen & Gledhill, turned to politics a decade ago. In 2018, he was tasked with the development and promotion of Singapore’s legal sector – including fulfilling its self-proclaimed ambition to become a restructuring hub: so GRR caught up with him to ask how that ambition was coming along, five years down the line.

28 September 2021

As the UK government’s covid-19 support for businesses continues to be reduced, some of the current protections will be removed, but commercial rent arrears will remain ring-fenced. Craig Montgomery and Roger Schofield of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London analyse the latest position and the impact on landlords and tenants.

17 September 2021

Collas Crill partner Jennifer Colegate in the Cayman  Islands,  with  partner David Harby and  senior associate Daisy Bovingdon in the British Virgin Islands, consider how cryptocurrencies as a form of cryptoassets, rather than virtual assets generally, are characterised as a matter of law, and discuss the practical issues that liquidators are likely to face when seeking to realise these assets for the benefit of creditors.

16 September 2021

Harneys’ counsel Grainne King and partners Julie Engwirda, Vicky Lord and Jonathan Addo discuss a recent ruling in the English Court of Appeal, which set out guidelines to establish when it is appropriate to impose personal liability on directors or shareholders of insolvent companies for costs incurred in unsuccessful litigation.

14 September 2021

Writing exclusively for GRR, Debra Grassgreen, president of the International Insolvency Institute and senior partner at Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl & Jones in San Francisco, and Scott Atkins, president of INSOL International and Australian chair/ head of risk advisory at Norton Rose Fulbright in Sydney, make a case for why mediation has an important role to play in global restructuring reform going forward.

10 September 2021

Preference claims are on the rise in many financial centres across the globe and many are linking this to the impact of the global pandemic. Stephen Alexander, a partner at Mourant Ozannes in Jersey, asks whether the impact of the pandemic may be a defence to such preference claims – and if so, how?

06 September 2021

Partner and head of Grant Thornton’s Africa insolvency & asset recovery offering Amaechi Nsofor speaks to GRR about the challenges of enforcing securities and judgments in Africa, why he expects creditors with assets in the region to turn to funding solutions, and how Grant Thornton’s asset recovery fund represents a "first mover" advantage.

29 July 2021