Regional news: Europe

Brazilian beef producer Tinto and ethanol producer Tonon, Canadian office furniture manufacturer Inscape and Italian construction group Cimolai have all secured recognition of their respective bankruptcy proceedings in Florida, New York and Texas in the past weeks.

17 April 2023

Akin and three of Norway’s biggest law firms, Thommessen, Wikborg Rein and Wiersholm, have worked on different sides of a debt-for-equity restructuring that placed Oslo-listed shipping and subsea group DOF into the hands of its creditors last month.

13 April 2023

German real estate group Adler has secured sanction of its English restructuring plan – but a dissenting ad hoc group of 2029 noteholders that was crammed down via the so-called “liquidation plan” has already indicated it will appeal.

12 April 2023

Using 1980s legislation that it last relied on more than quarter of a century ago, an English court has recognised an Irish scheme of arrangement that compromises English law debt, applying Irish law to bind creditors locally while avoiding the Gibbs rule.

11 April 2023

David Botter has joined Cleary Gottlieb as a partner in New York after over two decades with Akin Gump, where he advised noteholder groups in the cross-border restructurings of Aeroméxico and Nordic Aviation Capital.

10 April 2023

Weeks after recruiting London-based Kieran Sharma from global investment firm Strategic Value Partners, Sidley has added a new partner in Texas who it says will help grow its company-side practice worldwide.

07 April 2023

Counsel to the Republic of Argentina tells GRR it is planning to seek permission to appeal an English court decision ordering it to pay investors €1.33 billion for losses in the country’s gross domestic product-linked securities.

06 April 2023

The Dutch parent of South African retail conglomerate Steinhoff has secured court approval to appoint partners from Houthoff and Mediation Kamer Amsterdam to act as observers in its recently announced WHOA restructuring.

06 April 2023

The judge hearing German real estate group Adler’s restructuring plan is expected to hand down his decision without reasons next week, after a three-day sanction hearing in the English High Court ended with points of contention surrounding the plan’s fairness and whether creditors will receive a full return.

06 April 2023

In what looks set to be the first major restructuring to utilise Germany’s StaRUG restructuring tool, auto parts maker Leoni has entered a lock-up agreement with creditors for a deal that will see Austrian billionaire Stefan Pierer take it over.

05 April 2023