Regional news: Latin America & Caribbean

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

Lawyers from BMA Advogados have helped Brazil’s Oi and two of its Dutch affiliates obtain provisional protection from creditors in a Rio court, less than two months after the telecoms company formally exited a six-year-long judicial reorganisation process before the same court.

03 February 2023

A feeder fund of bankrupt crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital has collapsed in the British Virgin Islands and appointed directors from Interpath Advisory as joint liquidators.

03 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

Rio de Janeiro-headquartered retail giant Americanas has sought New York recognition of its Brazilian judicial recovery proceedings to protect its US assets, two weeks after it disclosed a near four-billion-dollar gap in its balance sheet.

26 January 2023

An eight-day trial is under way in London to decide whether a Cayman fund can bring a claim against Cuba for payment of an almost 40-year-old sovereign debt governed by English law and denominated in now-defunct German Deutschmarks.

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

Sullivan & Cromwell has won court approval to represent FTX, despite facing what partner Jim Bromley described as “assault by twitter” and accusations of misconduct by the exchange’s former chief compliance officer.

20 January 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

UPDATED: Offshore oil drilling group Ocyan, formerly known as Odebrecht Óleo e Gás, has opened Brazilian extrajudicial reorganisation proceedings to deal with a US$2.7 billion debt pile through a debt-for-equity swap.

13 January 2023