Regional news: Africa & Middle East

London-listed international firm DWF has recruited a new partner in Riyadh from Saudi industrial investments company Dussur, who has credits on several restructurings in the MENA region.

02 November 2022

A controversial court decision on directors’ liability that raised eyebrows in the UAE last year has been partially overturned, in a decision clarifying that only directors responsible for a company’s losses will be held liable for its bankruptcy.

26 October 2022

After two decades that have seen China become the largest bilateral lender to the world’s poorest countries, attendees at GRR Live in New York said talk of so-called “debt-trap diplomacy” is misplaced but the country needs to decide whether it wants to be isolated or part of the developed financial world.

19 October 2022

Middle Eastern healthcare group NMC has restrained financial broker Noor Capital from pursuing enforcement proceedings against it in Dubai, with counsel to the group telling GRR the injunction prevents “one rogue creditor” undermining its successful restructuring.

10 October 2022

Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank has secured a worldwide freezing order against the former CEO of Middle Eastern healthcare group NMC, who it accuses of being part of a major fraud that led to the group’s collapse.

05 October 2022

A court in Abu Dhabi’s financial free zone has partially restrained financial broker Noor Capital from pursuing enforcement proceedings against restructured healthcare group NMC in Dubai, ahead of a hearing next week over a UAE judgment debt arising out of a December 2019 loan agreement.

28 September 2022

The Abu Dhabi Global Market has implemented reforms to its insolvency practitioner framework that do away with the need to have a registered office address in the financial free zone to obtain a license.

16 September 2022

Two companies in the Middle Eastern NMC Healthcare group have had their administrations extended in Abu Dhabi’s financial free zone to allow their administrators to continue investigations into the business and pursue litigation.

15 September 2022

Baker McKenzie has been disqualified from representing a Russian bank in US discovery proceedings in aid of an alleged fraud claim against a Dubai-based commodities trader, after a Georgia judge found the firm had a conflict of interest because it was approached to advise the trader in a liquidation last year.

02 September 2022

As the “crypto winter” continues, a German crypto-focused digital banking platform has entered insolvency proceedings before a Berlin court, while crypto exchange CoinFlex has announced it is seeking to restructure in the Seychelles.

11 August 2022