Walkers has secured the first ever appointment of restructuring officers in the Cayman Islands under the offshore jurisdiction’s new regime.
14 November 2022
UK energy companies who take responsibility for a failed supplier’s customers can claim back any credit balances they assume from its insolvent estate, according to a decision handed down by Mr Justice Zacaroli that has clarified a whole host of previously unresolved legal issues for the officeholders of 10 collapsed suppliers.
14 November 2022
Bob Wessels comments on Lord Justice Lewison’s concurring opinion in the recent English Court of Appeal centre of main interests decision in East-West Logistics v Melars Group.
14 November 2022
New York-headquartered investment bank Jefferies is expanding in London with former co-heads of restructuring for the EMEA region from Lazard and Rothschild & Co.
14 November 2022
The world’s second largest cryptocurrency institution FTX has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US after a tumultuous week, with lawyers expecting fresh regulation for digital assets among what some are calling crypto’s “Lehman” moment.
11 November 2022
INSOL International turned 40 this year and is using the opportunity to reimagine itself so it is still relevant in decades to come. GRR caught up with INSOL’s president Scott Atkins, global co-head of restructuring at Norton Rose Fulbright in Sydney, to talk about the association’s new 2030 strategy and how it is reframing itself from a regular membership organisation to a group with a broader societal impact, at a time when the global economic environment points to significant disruption.
11 November 2022
A Hong Kong court has sanctioned a guarantor’s scheme of arrangement for the first time, noting that it preferred the Singaporean approach to guarantor’s schemes over the English one, which usually requires a deed of contribution to establish “ricochet” claims between borrower and guarantor to discharge the third-party borrower’s debts.
11 November 2022
Jones Day has recruited a longtime Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson partner who advised fashion brand Jack Wills on its pre-packaged sale to British retail giant Sports Direct – and announced partnership promotions for four of its US restructuring lawyers.
10 November 2022
Chinese real estate services provider E-House has obtained court sanction of a Cayman scheme restructuring US$600 million in notes, a week after it secured creditor approval.
10 November 2022
California’s health authority has agreed to mediate with a struggling clinic operator and its unsecured creditors, two weeks after a US bankruptcy judge called it out for threatening to put the lives of Californian citizens at risk.
10 November 2022
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