News

Guernsey-owned British fashion and homeware retailer Matalan has filed for Chapter 15 recognition of its English scheme, two days after it was approved by the High Court in London.

30 July 2020

The parent company of women’s clothes retailer Ann Taylor has secured several first-day orders in its Chapter 11 proceedings in Virginia, with Kirkland & Ellis and Cooley advising.

30 July 2020

An English court has let Dutch retailer Hema hold a creditors’ vote on the English scheme that is key to its planned multi-jurisdictional restructuring in the UK, the US and the Netherlands.

29 July 2020

A Brazilian court has approved a restructuring plan for non-operating companies in Brazil’s Odebrecht group, which will see it pay creditors with the proceeds of asset sales and new, profit-sharing securities.

29 July 2020

DLA Piper has hired a new partner in its Melbourne restructuring practice, after losing its Australian head of restructuring to Dentons in March.

29 July 2020

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

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

An English court has ordered the winding-up of a UK mini-bond seller, following a petition by the administrators of its scandal-hit parent, London Capital & Finance.

28 July 2020

The Texan trustee of a discharged bankrupt now suspected of possible bankruptcy fraud with his brother, is using the UK’s cross-border insolvency law to try to access a London Thameside property.

28 July 2020

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