JUDGEMENTS NO. 541/2012, OF OCTOBER 23, 2012, BY THE ZARAGOZA BRANCH OF THE COURT OF APPEALS, NOS. 413/2011, OF DECEMBER 19, AND 18/2012, OF JANUARY 18, BY THE BURGOS BRANCH OF THE COURT OF APPEALS, NO. 132/2012, OF APRIL 10, BY THE RULING OF THE VALENCIA BRANCH OF THE COURT OF APPEAL, AND NOS. 210/2012 AND 211/2012, BOTH OF JULY 20, BY THE ALICANTE COMMERCIAL COURT

The matter subject to this analysis is decision taken by a Bankruptcy Administration dealing with three companies of the same company group which are involved in a bankruptcy proceeding. Given the situation and in response of the confusing information of assets, the Administration under discussion decided to gather the three companies joining all their creditors in a sole debt pooling and besides, joining all the rights and assets of the three companies.  

Last 31 August, the Spanish Council of Ministers passed the Royal Decree-law 24/2012, on restructuring and resolution of credit entities (the "RDL 24/2012") which entered into force on such date immediately following its publication in the Spanish Official Gazette (Boletín Oficial del Estado).

The Spanish Council of Ministers has approved the Royal Decree Law 24/2012 (the RDL 24/2012), for the restructuring and termination of Spanish credit entities. This RDL entered into force on 31 August 2012.

Global—On 26 October 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in a ruling that may impact sovereign debt restructurings, upheld a lower court order enjoining Argentina from making payments on restructured defaulted debt without making comparable payments to bondholders who did not participate in the restructuring.

On March 21st, 2012 the Spanish High Court rendered its Judgment in which stated that credits for supplies accrued before a company has been stated in bankruptcy, have to be paid as preferential credits, this means that they shall have priority over the rest of the credits, in those cases in which the Court who is dealing with the bankruptcy proceedings had ordered the supplier to continue with the respective supply in the interest of the bankrupt company.

The insolvency administrators (hereinafter, “the Plaintiff”) of the company Santa Teresa Materiales de Construcción S.L. (hereinafter “the Company”) sought the declaration of invalidity of the transaction undertaken by the Banco Santander S.A. (hereinafter, “the Bank”) classified by the Plaintiff as debt offset.

In this appeal, the court analyzes the extent of the consequential damages and future loss of profits that correspond to the lessor of a business premise on the occasion of the unilateral termination by the lessee, caused by the failure to obtain the mandatory licenses for the supermarket business of such premise.

El TS clarifica la calificación concursal de los contratos de permuta de tipos de interés y los califica como créditos concursales por no cumplir con el requisito del sinalagma funcional que se predica de las obligaciones recíprocas.

Late last week, the Governing Committee of the Fund for Orderly Bank Restructuring (FROB) met to discuss the restructuring of Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Cordoba (CajaSur).