Topic: Derivatives

Cash-strapped cryptocurrency lender and asset management group Babel Finance has secured an extension to a Singaporean moratorium it obtained last month, as well as permission to keep the names of its creditors confidential.

27 April 2023

Debt administration services group GLAS has expanded in the US, hiring a lawyer and fintech specialist from insolvent trade finance group Greensill.

03 February 2022

Boston-headquartered law firm Mintz has recruited new faces in Chicago and Texas, and Alvarez & Marsal has bolstered its UK restructuring group, while a Freshfields lawyer has moved to Erskine Chambers and Australia’s Corrs Chambers Westgarth has hired from Paul Hastings in London.

01 October 2021

Interest claims brought by ING Bank against Santander in London belong in Madrid an English judge has ruled, in a case she described as “more complex” than previous ones pitting the EU’s Insolvency Regulation against the recast Brussels Regulation.

23 December 2020

Brazil’s senate has approved a long-tabled bankruptcy law, which is set to introduce cross-border provisions based on the UNCITRAL Model Law to the country’s regime.

27 November 2020

The former EMEA practice group coordinator for K&L Gates’ restructuring and insolvency group has joined Mayer Brown in London, continuing the firm’s recent hiring spree.

02 September 2020

US firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has bolstered its insolvency and restructuring practice, hiring two veteran partners in New York.

06 August 2020

The High Court of Justice in London has sanctioned a scheme for mining company African Minerals, despite only four unsecured creditors voting at the scheme meeting last week.

27 July 2020