Colombian airline Viva Air has entered insolvency blaming the local aviation regulator for taking took too long to review its proposed acquisition by Avianca.
07 March 2023
Latin American airline Avianca has asked a New York court to make a first-of-its-kind order sanctioning over 160 foreign creditors for violating the injunction terms of its Chapter 11 plan.
19 January 2023
Despite claiming the duration and complexities of its Chapter 11 case were unforeseen, South American airline LATAM has failed to convince a New York court to let it pay its investment banker PJT Partners an additional US$12 million restructuring fee if its plan becomes effective.
20 September 2022
The International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation has named the former chief bankruptcy judge of Colombia as its 2022 Woman of the Year, and a US-based healthcare turnaround expert as the first inductee in its Hall of Fame.
07 March 2022
Latin American finance group Alpha Latam Management has secured court approval for a sale of its Colombian assets, three months after accounting errors at its Mexican arm led it to file for Chapter 11 protection.
17 November 2021
Latin American airline Avianca has secured court approval of its Chapter 11 restructuring plan in New York, shortly after revealing plans to shift its domicile to the UK.
09 November 2021
A Latin American finance group is looking to sell off its Colombian business through Chapter 11 proceedings in Delaware, blaming debt defaults on accounting errors at its Mexican arm.
03 August 2021
Latin American airline Avianca has reached two major milestones in its restructuring after settling disputes relating to a pre-petition sale of credit card receivables and getting the green light to enter new aircraft leases to redevelop its fleet.
17 March 2021
Multiple international and Latin American law firms have helped Colombian-Panamanian airline Avianca and Chile’s LATAM get court approval for debtor-in-possession financings worth more than US$4 billion, weeks after LATAM’s new money deal was initially rejected.
14 October 2020
A Cayman Islands court has approved a cross-border communications protocol for the first time, agreeing a process for working with courts in New York, Chile and Colombia on Chilean airline LATAM’s restructuring.
27 August 2020
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