José Carles and Carlos Cuesta comment on the recent ruling of a Commercial Court of Barcelona approving the first pre-packaged sale in Spain as well as on the brand-new guidelines for prepacks issued by the Commercial Courts of Barcelona.

Spain published the transposition of the Directive on Preventive Restructuring and Insolvency in its Official Gazette on 6 September 2022.

From the pandemic to Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, it seems the world is moving from one extraordinary period to another. The conflict in Europe has generated a maze of rapid legal, political and economic responses from authorities around the globe. Those actions are rippling through capital, markets and boardrooms as businesses grapple with how to respond. Join ABI and a panel of experts to discuss where we are headed and what businesses should consider.

According to the OECD, Portugal is in the top three countries in terms of implementing new measures to face this COVID-19 pandemic. However, regarding the legal framework of insolvency and restructuring, the only direct, exceptional and temporary measure approved by the Portuguese authorities was to suspend the time limit for the debtor itself to petition for insolvency, with effect from 7 April 2020. No pre-insolvency exceptional measures have been adopted.

The Directive (EU) 2019/1023 on preventive restructuring frameworks ("the Directive") was passed on 20 June 2019 bringing about a change of paradigm in corporate restructuring. A change that should allow the States of the European Union to catch up with countries adhering to the Anglo-Saxon model, both in restructuring and insolvency matters and also upstream, in financial matters, due to the influence of the insolvency legislation on the provision of credit ex-ante.