The new Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill contains a mixture of temporary measures necessitated by the immediate economic and practical challenges of COVID-19, and longer-term reforms to our restructuring and insolvency regime.
The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act (the “Act”) entered into force on 26 June 2020.
The Act makes three significant permanent reforms to our restructuring and insolvency regime, and also contains temporary measures designed to mitigate some of the economic and practical challenges of COVID-19. On 24 September 2020 the Government announced the extension of certain of the temporary provisions which had been due to expire on 30 September 2020.
In this update we provide a brief overview of the key restructuring and insolvency measures introduced by the Act.
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The ACT Borrower's Guide to the LMA's Investment Grade Agreements
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The ACT Borrower's Guide to the LMA's Investment Grade Agreements
produced by Slaughter and May 5th Edition 1 September 2017
This guide has been produced for the ACT by Slaughter and May to provide assistance to corporate treasurers reviewing draft facility agreements based on the LMA documentation for investment grade borrowers.
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Introduction1
March 2018 The Government has issued a Consultation on proposals designed to reduce the risk of major company failures and to strengthen the responsibilities of directors in the context of actual or threatened insolvency. The principal specific proposals are: • directors of a holding company that sells an insolvent subsidiary to be required to take into account the interests of the creditors of that subsidiary and possibly its other stakeholders • the unwinding of transactions that have “unfairly removed value” from a company that becomes insolvent.