Regional news: Asia-Pacific

EY has recruited a partner for its turnaround and restructuring strategy team who acted as a liquidator to multinational investment manager Halifax Investment Services: a case that marked a world first for cooperation between courts in Australia and New Zealand.

08 February 2023

India’s economic growth and the refinement of the country’s Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code are not mutually exclusive, a crowd of leading Indian and international practitioners and scholars heard this week at the inaugural conference of the Insolvency Law Academy – a not-for-profit organisation set up by former INSOL International president Sumant Batra.

07 February 2023

Singapore-based restructuring partner Meiyen Tan has joined Norton Rose Fulbright’s local alliance firm Ascendant Legal, leading her former firm, Oon & Bazul, to elevate partner Keith Han to sole head of its restructuring practice.

06 February 2023

While acknowledging the limited regulatory guidance currently in place, managing partner Kyle Broadhurst and Richard Parrish from Cayman boutique Broadhurst provide a brief overview on how at least seven different jurisdictions are approaching the treatment of crypto assets in insolvency.

06 February 2023

Mr Justice Harris has predicted Hong Kong will soon become a signatory to the UNCITRAL Model Law and said US judges “don’t fully understand” the concerns of Hong Kong courts in the wake of the controversial cross-border restructuring of Chinese real estate developer Modern Land.

01 February 2023

Three subsidiaries of Malaysian oil and gas services company Sapura Energy have secured Singaporean recognition of their ongoing restructuring proceedings following a flurry of winding up petitions filed against the group last year.

01 February 2023

The Indian government is inviting comments on a suite of proposed reforms to the country’s Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, from a new electronic case management platform to special rules for real estate developers.

26 January 2023

The Singaporean trustees of a bankrupt Australian businessman have secured recognition of their appointments in Australia so they can investigate his assets after he failed to file a statement of affairs in compliance with Singapore’s insolvency laws.

25 January 2023

Distressed Chinese property developer China Fortune Land Development has secured court-approval of its English scheme after making last minute changes following the UK’s introduction of sanctions banning the provision of trust services to Russian persons or entities.

23 January 2023

Latham & Watkins and Hengeler Mueller are advising German automotive wiring manufacturer Leoni as it reinstates a chief restructuring officer it relied on during the pandemic, following the failed disposal of a subsidiary that jeopardised its 2022 restructuring plan.

20 January 2023