UAE law firm Global Advocacy and Legal Counsel has promoted NMC Healthcare counsel Murad Abida to regional co-managing partner in Dubai.
01 November 2021
The administrators of NMC Healthcare have sought a declaratory order from an Abu Dhabi court to help them seek recognition in onshore courts of deeds of company arrangement that were approved last month.
21 October 2021
Three weeks after an Amsterdam court confirmed its Dutch composition plan, retail conglomerate Steinhoff has revealed its contested South African scheme has been listed for a week-long sanction hearing in January – while it also faces uncertainty from a pending liquidation application.
15 October 2021
A pair of Cayman liquidators overseeing the winding up of a Kuwaiti family’s investment vehicle are seeking recognition in the US to take discovery from multiple parties including US law firms and international banks, who they believe might shed light on tens of millions of dollars transferred out of the group several years ago.
13 October 2021
The liquidator of a group of companies owned by an Australian family, who are embroiled in an alleged international tax avoidance scheme with Israeli banks, has sought Chapter 15 relief in New York.
01 October 2021
US-headquartered advisory firm Ankura Consulting has launched a new European restructuring practice with several hires, including the former co-heads of EY’s European restructuring group and AlixPartners’ UK turnaround practice – while B Riley and Alvarez & Marsal have added new faces in the US and London.
27 September 2021
UPDATED: A Dutch energy company owned by scandal-hit Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos has been placed into bankruptcy in the Netherlands.
22 September 2021
Eight months after launching its first Cayman Islands office, UK-headquartered Quantuma has expanded its international footprint again with a new office in Dubai.
10 September 2021
Saudi Arabia’s new bankruptcy law has been praised after Ahmad Hamad Algosaibi & Brothers (AHAB) finally reached a US$7.5 billion settlement with creditors following 12 years of legal disputes around the world.
09 September 2021
The chairman of global tea producer McLeod Russel India has won an appeal hearing against a National Company Law Tribunal order that placed the company into an insolvency process earlier this month.
27 August 2021
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