11/19/2024 10:33:42 AM Restructuring Meets Litigation: Insights from the Chaptre Finance Decision By Sunil Singh Frank Clarke Emilio Salice Craig Montgomery Katharina Crinson +2 more... Show less In a recent decision, the English High Court has continued the trend of treating court-based restructurings as civil litigation. As we...
12/8/2023 3:33:49 PM Not over yet: UK DMCC Bill enters the House of Lords with some key questions still up for debate By Sharon Malhi Rikki Haria Sarah Jensen Martin Dickson Abigail Legge Milo Noone +3 more... Show less The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (the Bill) is still expected to come into force in Autumn 2024. Although the overall...
7/17/2023 10:29:51 AM Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) screening mechanisms must respect fundamental freedoms: A Case built on Clay, Sand (and Gravel) By Thomas Lübbig Uwe Salaschek Matthias Wahls Weak cases sometimes make good law. On 13 July, the ECJ in Case C-106/22 held that: Except in specific circumstances, the EU FDI...
1/18/2023 5:48:06 PM Developments in Spanish tax exemptions for sovereign investors: impact for M&A deals and tax disputes By Álvaro Fernández Silvia Paternain Bosco Montejo The domestic Spanish tax code does not, of itself, provide for any specific exemptions or favourable regimes for foreign sovereign...
2/9/2022 1:31:23 PM Unsponsored ADR programmes and Rule 10b-5 (again and it’s not over yet) By Doug Smith David Ludwick Virginia Flower In a positive development for non-US issuers, a new ruling in the long-running Stoyas v Toshiba case offers possible additional defence...
3/26/2021 12:00:00 AM Deal disputes – preparing for a more litigious environment By Angela Landry Wherever you are in the world, mitigating against your litigation risk to create greater deal certainty will be paramount in 2021. In...
1/29/2021 10:48:26 AM It works! DeepOcean’s fair wind fills the sails for UK cross-class cram down By Katharina Crinson Charlotte Schofield Richard Tett After Virgin Atlantic and Pizza Express achieved ‘too much consent’ and did not need cross-class cram down in the end, DeepOcean is the...
1/14/2021 8:00:35 AM Dutch law share pledge enforcement: update following recent case law By Barbara Slooter Tim Elkerbout Following the entering into force of the Dutch Scheme on 1 January this year, allowing for court confirmation of private restructuring...
10/9/2020 12:00:00 AM Codere's 2020 UK scheme of arrangement: a shot across the bow for bridge financing and fees By Adam Gallagher Katharina Crinson Adam Jones On 6 October 2020, the England and Wales High Court approved the second scheme of arrangement proposed by Codere (an international gaming...
5/29/2020 12:00:00 AM CK Telecoms judgment – a watershed for European merger control By Amaryllis Müller Thomas Wessely James Aitken Michele Davis Onno Brouwer Koo Asakura +3 more... Show less On 28 May, Europe’s General Court handed down a landmark ruling, comprehensively and emphatically upholding an appeal brought by CK...
5/6/2020 12:00:00 AM Court of Appeal judgment in Debenhams – UK furloughed employees are adopted in administration By Katharina Crinson Lindsay Hingston The English Court of Appeal has handed down its judgment in the Debenhams case, on which we acted. A copy of the judgment can be...