Regional news: Kenya

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

Partner and head of Grant Thornton’s Africa insolvency & asset recovery offering Amaechi Nsofor speaks to GRR about the challenges of enforcing securities and judgments in Africa, why he expects creditors with assets in the region to turn to funding solutions, and how Grant Thornton’s asset recovery fund represents a "first mover" advantage.

29 July 2021

Offering a rare glimpse into a cross-border insolvency in Africa, a Cayman court has appointed light-touch provisional liquidators over an oil and gas company finding its intention to restructure was there, despite its “precarious” negotiations being at an early stage and creditors in Kenya trying to stall a related Mauritian administration.

01 April 2021

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A few months after taking over as Piper Sandler’s global head of restructuring, veteran Wall Street banker Todd Snyder speaks to GRR about a potential boom in infrastructure investment, why sub-Saharan Africa is a likely place for new investment activity and his “almost religious” belief in the importance of restructuring to the good functioning of the free market.

15 March 2021

Joint administrators have been appointed over African cement maker ARM Cement after Nigeria-headquartered UBA Bank led a charge of the company’s commercial lenders seeking to recover over Sh14.4 billion (US$140 million).

20 August 2018

White & Case in London and Bowmans in Nairobi have been advising Kenya’s struggling flagship airline as it nears the completion of a capital restructuring.

19 May 2017