News

Greenberg Traurig has hired a partner from Willkie Farr & Gallagher’s Italian affiliate to co-chair its restructuring and compliance groups.

04 April 2023

Chinese real estate services group E-House has clinched a new deal with certain offshore noteholders after failing to consummate a Cayman scheme approved last November, on the same day that Evergrande entered restructuring support agreements with a key creditor group.

04 April 2023

Quinn Emanuel has won a sought-after mandate to represent one group of Credit Suisse AT1 bondholders in their effort to recover losses suffered following the bank’s merger with Swiss rival UBS, while GRR understands two other groups are emerging that are in "advanced discussions" with Pallas Partners.

03 April 2023

Cryptocurrency is property and capable of being held on trust, a Hong Kong court has ruled, in a landmark decision that puts it on the same footing as courts in five other common law jurisdictions and the US.

03 April 2023

Two former Rajah & Tann partners have quit the firm with eight colleagues to set up what they say is a “first-of-its-kind” boutique in the Lion City.

03 April 2023

Noteholders objecting to German real estate group Adler’s UK restructuring plan argued that Adler is pursuing a “liquidation plan” rather than seeking to save the business as a going concern, on day one of a much-anticipated sanction hearing that is expected to raise novel jurisdictional questions.

03 April 2023

The sale of a British energy supplier in the first-ever UK energy supply company administration was within the bounds of the law, despite complaints of an “unfair” marketing process from three of the country's largest energy companies, an English court has found.

31 March 2023

In a ruling local lawyers say will give creditors more leverage, the German Federal Supreme Court recently restricted an insolvency administrator's right to realise intangible assets held by secured creditors as collateral for the benefit of an insolvent estate – but is it indicative of a general move away from officeholder-friendly judgments?

31 March 2023

A former partner at several well-known US law firms has been charged with making false statements in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.

31 March 2023

Brazilian firm TozziniFreire Advogados has re-hired an in-house lawyer from Itaú BBA as a restructuring partner, after five years at the bank.

31 March 2023