01 Nov, 2024 Dutch Supreme Court provides clarity on aspects of the WHOA in Royal IHC judgment By Charlotte Ausema Huub Boekhorst Michael Broeders Tim Elkerbout +1 more... Show less On 25 October 2024, the Dutch Supreme Court ruled in a ground-breaking judgment in Royal IHC that a WHOA plan may change creditors’ and...
05 Aug, 2024 UK Listing Rules Reforms: Companies facing financial difficulty By Hamish Hatrick Nicholas Cooper Lindsay Hingston Jennifer McCarthy Julian Makin Tom Godwin Richard Ho +4 more... Show less On 29 July 2024 the new UK Listing Rules (UKLR) came into force, representing the most substantial overhaul of the rules in over three...
17 Jul, 2024 Distressed carve-outs: great risks, great opportunities By Stefan Bajohr Franz Aleth Buying parts of a distressed company may offer great opportunities for buyers. When a company is struggling but not yet insolvent,...
12 Jul, 2024 NMC Healthcare – Fraudulent and Wrongful Trading under ADGM Law By Tabasam Faqir Billy Liu Craig Montgomery Katharina Crinson +1 more... Show less The Abu Dhabi Global Market (the “ADGM”) courts have recently handed down their decision in NMC Healthcare Limited & Others v Shetty &...
04 Jul, 2024 Sian Participation – revisiting the boundary between Insolvency and Arbitration under English Law By Billy Liu Craig Montgomery Neil Golding John Choong +1 more... Show less In the recent decision Sian Participation v Halimeda (Sian), the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (the Privy Council) held on a...
24 Apr, 2024 UK National Security and Investment Act Update: what’s new on the horizon for restructuring & insolvency By David Bor Katharina Crinson Ken Baird The UK National Security and Investment Act came into force on 4 January 2022, significantly extending the UK Government’s power to...
11 Apr, 2024 Multi process restructurings By Jamie Murray-Jones Lindsay Hingston Katharina Crinson Prompted by the EU Restructuring Directive and accelerated by the pandemic, jurisdictions all across Europe have completely transformed...
02 Apr, 2024 The continued development of contentious restructurings as litigation By Craig Montgomery Katharina Crinson Frank Clarke Harry White Xuan Boh +2 more... Show less Following a series of important decisions in England and across Europe, it is now beyond doubt that court-based restructuring processes...
21 Mar, 2024 Freshfields Restructuring Expert leads the successful Dutch WHOA proceedings of McDermott By Michael Broeders Lindsay Hingston Mijke Sinninghe Damsté Huub Boekhorst +1 more... Show less Amsterdam based Freshfields partner, Michael Broeders, was appointed on 10 October 2023[1] by the Amsterdam Court as Restructuring...
08 Mar, 2024 Link Fund Solutions – Appeal of decision sanctioning scheme of arrangement By Frank Clarke Craig Montgomery Katharina Crinson On 5 March 2024, Link Fund Solutions Limited’s scheme of arrangement took effect following the High Court’s decision on 9 February 2024...
06 Mar, 2024 Water special administration regime – what are the key changes? By Emma Gateaud Frederick Money Oliver Schonle Like many other strategically important sectors, there has long been a bespoke insolvency regime for the water sector. New legislation...
31 Jan, 2024 Does 2023 mark a turning point for UK corporate insolvencies? By Nicholas Cooper Emma Gateaud Katharina Crinson 2023 marked the highest annual number of corporate insolvencies since 1993, according to figures released by The Insolvency Service this...