Topic: Insolvency
Katten Muchin launches UK restructuring practice with CRS hire
Charles Russell Speechlys partner Prav Reddy has joined the London affiliate of US firm Katten Muchin Rosenman, in what is its first move into the restructuring sector outside the US.
04 August 2020
Foreign pension investors’ claims to be heard in German group insolvency
An administrator from German law firm GÖRG will oversee the insolvencies of more than 100 entities in a group that invited pensioners from the UK, Ireland and Asia to finance the conversion of historic buildings.
03 August 2020
DLA Piper expands Hong Kong restructuring practice
DLA Piper has hired Matthew Worth as a partner in its Hong Kong restructuring practice, two days after it added a new partner in Melbourne.
31 July 2020
RHTLaw advising as Hiap Seng Engineering files for JM in Singapore
Singapore-listed oil and gas services company Hiap Seng Engineering and one of its subsidiaries have filed separate applications for judicial management in the city-state, with RHTLaw advising.
29 July 2020
European digital technologies group seeks recognition in New York
The CEO of Paris-registered digital technologies specialist Ymagis has applied for recognition of its French insolvency proceedings in New York, just months after it agreed a €52 million restructuring.
29 July 2020
Hyflux banks prepare judicial management application
An unsecured group of Hyflux’s bank lenders are preparing an application to place it under judicial management, while the embattled Singaporean company has also received new proposals from US and UAE investors.
28 July 2020
Community roundup: new recruits at Gordon Brothers, EY and Kirkland & Ellis
Gordon Brothers and EY have hired in Australia, Kirkland & Ellis and Thornton Grout Finnigan have recruited in Hong Kong and Toronto, and Quantuma and Freeths continue to expand in the UK.
20 July 2020
High court lets Lehman make shareholder distributions in “exceptional case”
The administrators of Lehman Brothers International (Europe) will consent to a directors’ request to distribute £29 million to its sole shareholder, after the High Court in London gave them the green light.
15 July 2020
Alvarez & Marsal hires ex-Lehman Brothers Asia liquidator in Hong Kong
Edward Middleton, a former managing director and co-head of financial restructuring in Asia at investment bank Houlihan Lokey, has joined Alvarez & Marsal in Hong Kong.
15 July 2020
Boies Schiller adds bankruptcy partners in New York and London
Boies Schiller Flexner has bolstered its bankruptcy group with the former head of Lehman Brothers Holdings’ derivatives bankruptcy strategy in New York, and an ex-Brown Rudnick partner in London.
14 July 2020
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