Foreign and comparative lawBy Shreyas Gupta (Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co.)I. Introduction: A Judgment That Shakes the FoundationsOn 13 February 2026, the Supreme Court of India delivered what may prove to be one of the most consequential judgments at the…
Cross-border insolvency, Foreign and comparative lawBy Ryo Kawabata and Midori Yamaguchi (Mori Hamada & Matsumoto)1. Introduction Many businesses today structure global enterprise groups with cross-border ramifications. As corporate operations become more international, their branches…
Cross-border insolvency, Foreign and comparative lawBy Corinne Ball, Dan Moss, Ben Rosenblum and David Torborg (Jones Day)As Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code marks its twentieth year, filings and jurisprudence have grown substantially. Yet a central threshold question continues…
Foreign and comparative lawBy Stephan Degen (Heuking Germany)Five years after the German Wirecard AG announced in a disclosure of insider information that the Management Board “assumed” that the bank balances in trust accounts abroad amounting to approximately EUR 1.9 billion…
Singapore insolvency and restructuring lawBy Corrine Ball, Dan T. Moss, Sushma Jobanputra and Vinay Kurien (Jones Day)In Short The Development: On March 11, 2025, the Committee to Enhance Singapore's Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency Regime (the "Committee…
Singapore insolvency and restructuring law, Small companiesBy Debby Lim (Dentons Rodyk)With effect from 29 January 2026, Singapore has replaced the temporary COVID‑era Simplified Insolvency Programme (SIP 1.0) with a permanent framework embedded within the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution…
Insolvency and alternative dispute resolutionBy Peter Sadler (HFW)In Elecnor Australia Pty Ltd v Clough Projects Australia Pty Ltd the Supreme Court of New South Wales navigated the tension between the Australian statutory insolvency regime and a contractually agreed arbitration…
Singapore insolvency and restructuring lawBy Lionel Leo, Joel Chng, Muhammed Ismail Noordin and Eden Li (WongPartnership LLP)Introduction – Cross-class cramdown in Singapore Singapore’s emergence as a leading international debt restructuring hub has been underpinned…
Foreign and comparative lawBy Mohan Gopalan, Teri Cheng, Erica Phoon (Drew & Napier LLC)IntroductionIn Re Sino-Ocean Group Holding Ltd, a company proposed a restructuring plan to compromise its existing debt in exchange for new debt issuance. The plan…
Cross-border insolvency, Foreign and comparative lawBy Lynn P. Harrison III, Sam J. Alberts and David F. Cook (Dentons US LLP)On June 27, 2024, the United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Bankruptcy Code does not authorize any non-consensual third party releases (other than…