Regional news: Africa & Middle East
Steinhoff investors’ consortium drops claims, but settlement still faces hostility
A consortium of shareholders seeking to disrupt South African conglomerate Steinhoff’s global settlement has withdrawn its opposition to the group’s Dutch suspension of payments proceedings – but other claimant groups remain hostile in the Netherlands and South Africa.
08 June 2021
Forex trader’s operating arm seeks recognition in the US
Two weeks after its forex broker parent sought recognition of its British Virgin Islands liquidation in Florida, an operating entity of the UAE-based currency trading group Exential has applied for Chapter 15 recognition of its own separate liquidation.
07 June 2021
NMC Healthcare administrators face claw back roadblocks in Abu Dhabi
NMC Healthcare’s administrators in Abu Dhabi’s financial free zone are facing jurisdictional hurdles in their attempts to claw back payments diverted to Dubai Islamic Bank, amid questions the judge described as “elusive”.
27 May 2021
BVI forex trader seeks recognition in the US
British Virgin Islands-based FCI Markets, part of a UAE-based forex trading group that a Dubai court found to be a Ponzi scheme defrauding investors out of more than US$200 million, has applied for Chapter 15 recognition of its BVI liquidation in Florida.
25 May 2021
Islamic offshore reinsurer wound-up in Malaysia
A Malaysian court has issued a winding-up order against the local arm of a Tunisia-headquartered Islamic reinsurance company that operates across Asia and Africa.
24 May 2021
Kroll hires in Dubai from KPMG
Kroll has expanded in Dubai, adding a new associate managing director from KPMG with credits on the liquidation of UK travel agent Thomas Cook and the bankruptcy of securities broker MF Global.
19 May 2021
Who can further delay adjourned meetings? Australian court weighs in
UPDATED: A court in Western Australia has issued its reasons for allowing creditors to decide whether a Congolese-Australian miner’s delayed second meeting may be adjourned again, in the face of competing deed of company arrangement proposals from interested parties.
14 April 2021
MoFo advising as Wirecard seeks US recognition
The German administrator of scandal-hit payment processor Wirecard has asked a Pennsylvania court to recognise its Munich-based insolvency and to block securities litigation pending in the US.
12 April 2021
Abu Dhabi-based NMC Healthcare secures interim English protection
The administrators of NMC Healthcare in Abu Dhabi’s financial free zone have obtained interim protection in the UK, blocking creditors from attaching sale proceeds they plan to place in a London bank account.
09 April 2021
No assets? No problem! Israeli trustee accesses UK concealment structure
The Israeli trustee of a property investor once rumoured to be Israel’s largest private bankrupt has persuaded an English court to transfer him the rights to a UK company believed to be at the top of a structure intended to hide German assets – though no assets have been identified as yet, even by private investigators.
08 April 2021