On May 11, 2021, the Supreme People’s Court issued the Opinion on Developing the Pilot for Recognition of and Assistance in Bankruptcy Proceedings in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (the “Pilot Opinion”). The Pilot Opinion designated the people’s courts in Shanghai, Xiamen of Fujian Province, and Shenzhen of Guangdong Province to carry out the work for the pilot recognition of and assistance in bankruptcy proceedings in Hong Kong.

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经营本地业务之香港注册公司的清盘呈请个案现时占少数。此外,我每周都会收到一些在离岸司法管辖区注册成立并且在本地上市的公司的“温和”临时清盘人在申请认可和协助时拟采用 Z-Obee 一案的技巧…”

--- 夏利士法官(中国汇源果汁集团有限公司案 [2020]HKCFI 2940 at [55])(裁决日期:2020 年 11 月 19 日)

跨境破产在香港日益活跃。以上引述的一段话说明了香港公司法院原讼法庭处理的清盘和破产程序案件很大部分源于申请承认及向外国清盘人提供协助。

早前发布的客户简报(原文见此处)探讨了向香港法院申请将外国公司强制清盘的问题。本客户简报考虑另一个问题, 就是香港法院对该外国公司注册成立的司法管辖区所发出的清盘令可以给予的承认和协助。

一般原则 香港並非《联合国国际贸易法委员会国际商事仲裁示范法》(UNCITRAL Model Law)的签署方,也没有制定该法例。承认和协助外国破产程序的权力源自普通法。

以下为典型的事实例子:一家无力偿债的公司在香港境外(通常为热门的离岸司法管辖区)注册成立但其资产位于香港。该公司的海外注册地批准就清盘呈请颁布清盘令,并任命临时清盘人。临时清盘人随后向香港法院申请“承认”该海外命令,使该清盘令通过香港法院授予的“协助”在香港具有域外适用性。

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“Since the court resumed hearings in May [2020] more than half the petitions I have heard have involved listed companies. Remarkably petitions to wind-up Hong Kong incorporated companies operating domestic businesses are currently a minority. In addition I have received weekly applications for recognition and assistance by soft-touch provisional liquidators of companies incorporated in one of the offshore jurisdictions and listed here intending to use the Z-Obee technique …”

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Samson Paper Company Limited (In Creditors' Voluntary Liquidation) [2021] HKCFI 2151(date of decision: 20 July 2021)

China All Access (Holdings) Limited [2021] HKCFI 1842 (date of decision: 21 June 2021)

Introduction

In another leap forward for cross-border insolvency cooperation between Hong Kong and Mainland China, the Hong Kong Court has issued its very first letter of request to a Mainland Court requesting recognition and assistance of Hong Kong liquidators under the new arrangement for mutual recognition of and assistance to insolvency proceedings introduced on 14 May 2021 (New Arrangement, which we wrote about

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On 20 July 2021, the Hong Kong Court of First Instance granted an application by Hong Kong liquidators to issue a letter of request for assistance to the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court. This was the first application made under the new cross-border cooperation mechanism, which we reported in a previous note (click here).

Background

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In the groundbreaking recent decision in Re Samson Paper Company Limited (in Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidation) [2021] HKCFI 2151 (“Samson”), the Hong Kong Companies Court (the “Hong Kong court”) has for the first time issued a letter of request to a court in mainland China under the new cross-border mutual recognition, assistance and cooperation arrangement between Hong Kong and mainland China (the “Mainland”) in relation to corporate insolvency and restructuring matters (the “Cooperation Arrangement”), which took effect on May 14, 2021.

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簡介

最近在Re Cheung Hing Chik also known as Charles H.C. Cheung, the debtor [2021] HKCA 981一案中,上訴法院澄清,在決定是否應撤銷破產令時,法院既可考慮在破產令發出之前的事實,也可考慮在破產令發出之後的事實。要成功申請撤銷破產令,申請人須證明涉及與先前法院席前證據有重大差異的特殊情況,作為推翻破產令的充分理據。

背景

本案是就一項於2020年8月3日發出的破產令(「該破產令」)提出的上訴。呈請人是一間公司,其銀行帳戶被破產人偷去或挪用了749,000美元。於2020年2月27日,呈請人就上述金額向破產人發出法定要求償債書,但不獲還款。在2020年8月3日進行的呈請聆訊上,破產人口頭上表示他能夠償還該債務,因為:

  1. 他可將其於張慶植會計師行有限公司的50% 權益出售,估計約值600萬元;及
  2. 他可能會收到若干其他資金。

法官不信納,並認為沒有證據顯示破產人能償還債務,因此發出了該破產令。

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