Work Area: Debt capital markets

The UK’s highest court has ruled that Ukraine can defend its non-payment of a US$3 billion Eurobond debt to Russia at a full trial, after finding it has an arguable and justiciable defence of duress.

15 March 2023

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The co-heads of Sidley Austin’s London restructuring group discuss their high-profile work on Chinese real estate restructurings, the recent back-and-forth between US and Hong Kong courts over the Gibbs rule, and how the UK’s new cross-class cramdown tool will allow sponsors to “game the capital structure” and play creditors off against each other.

13 March 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

Netherlands-incorporated telecoms company VEON has secured sanction of an English scheme to extend two sets of notes while it tries to sell a wholly owned Russian subsidiary.

30 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

A solvent Netherlands-based telecommunications company has obtained permission to hold scheme meetings in England, despite objections that its creditors should be split into four classes, as it buys time to pursue the sale of a Russian subsidiary and regain entry to international capital markets.

22 December 2022

Economies that have exhibited short-term resilience to increasingly difficult macro-economic circumstances may begin to buckle in mid-2023, a new report from ratings agency S&P Global predicts, as sovereign states and banks find it hard to manoeuvre the current strains on credit.

06 December 2022

After 11 years of trying, an assignee of certain Hellas bondholders has finally been allowed to pursue claims against the group’s former private equity investors, who it claims forced the Greek telecoms company to “commit business suicide” by overleveraging itself to pay them billions in dividends.

28 October 2022

Kirkland & Ellis is advising noteholders of Estonian casino and gaming operator Olympic Entertainment Group on the terms of a restructuring that tightens the notes’ covenants and reinstates certain assets hived out from the group in 2020.

15 February 2022

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