Topic: Discovery

Is the current class of unscrupulous businessmen and women worried more about likes than the law? At INSOL International’s first in-person event in India since the start of the covid pandemic, practitioners discussed cross-border asset tracing in India and whether discretion is a dying art among fraudsters.

27 March 2023

US multinational The Boeing Company has failed in its attempt to appeal a disclosure order obtained by South African airline Comair in its Chapter 15, after a New York district court dismissed arguments that the order was “final” entitling Boeing to appeal as of right.

02 February 2023

A group of former executives from a subsidiary of insurance conglomerate American International Group have accused their former employer of “weaponising” the US bankruptcy process to block a pending lawsuit over unpaid bonuses.

16 December 2022

The liquidators of a British Virgin Islands fund have lodged a breach of contract claim against Delaware-registered borrower Tremont International in New York, where they secured Chapter 15 recognition in 2019.

27 May 2022

In what is thought to be the first application for recognition of an Isle of Man voluntary liquidation in the US, an Africa-focused private jet operator's liquidator has filed a Chapter 15 in Oklahoma to stall a local litigation and try to access escrow funds.

14 January 2022

In a rare move, a Singapore court has cleared the use of bank statements as evidence in defunct payment processor Wirecard's German insolvency proceedings.

07 January 2022

The PwC administrator of parts of a Gibraltarian protected cell company may apply to hold a private examination of one of its directors under the local regime for such entities, Gibraltar’s Supreme Court has confirmed.

06 January 2022

Zurich-headquartered Credit Suisse is seeking discovery in California to support a planned English lawsuit against Japan’s Softbank over its alleged restructuring of a former Greensill client in late 2020, which the Swiss bank says put valuable receivables beyond its reach.

04 January 2022

The liquidators of a Cayman Islands beauty products e-commerce company have secured emergency relief from a New York bankruptcy court to freeze funds held in the local payment processing account of one of the company’s former clients, amid an international dispute over who owns the funds.

05 November 2021

Kirkland & Ellis and Deloitte are advising Japanese-owned car park operator NCP as it follows gym chain Virgin Active in using a UK restructuring plan to deal with property leases – meanwhile the High Court has weighed in on who should pay objecting landlords’ costs in restructuring plan cases.

16 April 2021