English High Court sanctions German real estate group’s “wind-down” restructuring plan
By Charles Balmain, Ben Davies, Christian Pilkington, John Rogerson, Cecily Higham, and Robbie Powell (White & Case LLP)
The English High Court has…
The international restructuring of Steinhoff under the Dutch WHOA
By Omar Salah and Jan de Wit (Norton Rose Fulbright)
Introduction
On 21 June 2023, the District Court of Amsterdam (the WHOA Court) granted its judgment in one of the largest…
No Double Dipping – Avianca Bankruptcy Court Demands that Foreign Creditors Drop Foreign Enforcement Proceedings at Risk of Having Bankruptcy Claims Disallowed
By Matthew Wargin and Jade Edwards (Mayer Brown LLP)
In a January 2023 opinion,[1…
English Court Approves First UK Restructuring Plan in Parallel to a European “Preventive Restructuring” Process
By Thomas Jemmett, Kate Stephenson, Mallika Abidi, Ken Au and Georgina Vale (Kirkland & Ellis International LLP)
At a Glance
The…
What is an Insolvency Proceeding?
By Riz Mokal (South Square and Aberdeen University School of Law)
To the question in the title, one may be forgiven the innocent response ‘Who cares?’. In fact, the question matters for all the reasons that legal…
Liability management transactions: providing new capital and laying the groundwork to cramdown of those left behind
By James A. Copeland and Maria Mokrzycka (Norton Rose Fulbright)
Introduction
Liability management is having a moment. Once a…
Separate classification of related-party creditors – Commentary on Malaysian Federal Court Judgment
By Jung Sangbum (INSOL Asia Hub)
Introduction
In MDSA Resources Sdn Bhd v Adrian Sia Koon Leng [2023] 5 MLRA 358, the Malaysian Federal Court had…
Policy and Regulatory Advances in Informal Workout and MSE Processes
By Scott Atkins and Kai Luck (Norton Rose Fulbright)
Synopsis
In August 2021, the authors published an article outlining the key features of the World Bank’s revised edition of…
Chapter 11’s Inclusivity Problem
By Sarah Paterson (LSE Law School) and Adrian Walters (Chicago-Kent College of Law)
The core claim in our new paper is that Chapter 11 is not well adapted to selective restructuring. We characterise this as Chapter…
Cross-Border Trusts in Flux: Understanding the Implications of the EU's Proposed Insolvency Directive for Trustees
By Charles Ho Wang Mak (Robert Gordon University)
Insolvency law has emerged as a complex yet vital domain in a world…