Regional news: Singapore

A former general counsel of EY Hong Kong has joined Rajah & Tann’s Malaysian affiliate Christopher Lee & Ong as co-head of its restructuring group.

01 March 2021

Rajah & Tann has successfully struck-down attempts by members of Singaporean billionaire Lim Oon Kuin’s family to have it removed as counsel to the judicial managers of  shipping company Ocean Tankers and oil trader Hin Leong.

25 February 2021

An avoidance order handing shares in a Canadian businessman’s companies to his Cayman bankruptcy trustee has been overturned by a Cayman appeal court, but litigation against his wife is set to continue.

25 February 2021

In separate actions in Australia, the voluntary administrators of a Congolese gold mine owner have secured permission to serve a security interest claim on a Harneys arm in the BVI, while a Queensland court is to consider recognising a Singaporean personal bankruptcy.

23 February 2021

Cayman-incorporated oil and gas company KrisEnergy has completed its restructuring in Singapore, two weeks after its scheme was sanctioned with amendments over the reach of a moratorium clause.

16 February 2021

Swiss airline services provider gategroup has secured meetings for creditors to vote on its UK restructuring plan but the High Court has rejected its request to keep all the plan creditors in a single class.

11 February 2021

Counsel to Swiss airline services provider gategroup said its UK restructuring plan is capable of affecting third party rights under the Lehman necessity principle as the second day of its convening hearing played out in the High Court.

04 February 2021

In a case that will examine whether the Lugano Convention's bankruptcy exemption applies to the new English restructuring plan, lawyers acting for Swiss airline services provider gategroup have applied to convene a meeting for a single class of creditors, telling the High Court they had to forum shop because “we can’t do this anywhere else”.

03 February 2021

Creditors of Southeast Asia’s largest shipping liner, Pacific International Lines, have approved an unusual scheme that the company’s lawyers say was negotiated outside Singapore’s typical moratorium process to avoid another Hanjin blowout.

02 February 2021

Online travel agency Asiatravel.com has secured a Singapore scheme alongside an unprecedented second round of rescue financing, while Trump partner MNC Investema has become the first Indonesian company to implement a pre-packaged scheme in the city-state.

01 February 2021