In a first-of-its-kind ruling, an English judge has refused a disclosure request by a client of investment manager Dolfin Financial in relation to the remuneration charged by its joint special administrators.
27 January 2023
Rio de Janeiro-headquartered retail giant Americanas has sought New York recognition of its Brazilian judicial recovery proceedings to protects its US assets, two weeks after it disclosed a near four-billion-dollar gap in its balance sheet.
26 January 2023
The Indian government is inviting comments on a suite of proposed reforms to the country’s Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, from a new electronic case management platform to special rules for real estate developers.
26 January 2023
Insolvency lawyers have raised concerns over a recent European Court of Justice referral from Poland, which could influence the debate over the tradability of data as an asset in distressed situations.
24 January 2023
The administrators of London-listed Russian gold miner Petropavlovsk have secured relief from an English court in a race to distribute the proceeds of the group’s sale to a Russian mining conglomerate before its Citibank accounts are closed.
24 January 2023
Shareholders of a British care home group may not participate in the sanction hearings for seven restructuring plans it is pursuing because the plans neither affect their rights nor the economic value of those rights, an English judge has ruled.
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
New procedures for recognising and enforcing foreign bankruptcies have been introduced in Saudi Arabia for the first time, which one local lawyer tells GRR should help to encourage investment in the country.
19 January 2023
A Chinese former owner of French luxury crystal manufacturer Baccarat has averted possible jail time in the UK, after brokering an out-of-court deal with her Hong Kong bankruptcy trustees to adjourn a contempt application over her refusal to cooperate with them.
18 January 2023
Seven companies in a British care home group have been permitted to convene restructuring plan meetings for up to five creditor classes, after the English High Court rejected requests from the group’s former CEO to be placed in a separate class to unsecured creditors.
17 January 2023
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