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Who is the noteholder and who is the creditor

Introduction

Towards the end of 2020, while businesses were reeling from the challenges of grappling with a global pandemic, the end of the Brexit transition period and LIBOR transition, the Law Commission published a paper analysing the current law underlying intermediated securities - Intermediated securities: who owns your shares? A Scoping Paper.

European Union, France, United Kingdom, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Public, Stephenson Harwood LLP, Brexit, Libor
California court clarifies directors’ duties when a corporation is insolvent or in the zone of insolvency

On October 29, 2009, the California Court of Appeal, Sixth District, in Berg & Berg Enterprises, LLC v. Boyle, et al., unequivocally ruled that, under California law, directors of either an insolvent corporation or a corporation in the more elusively defined “zone of insolvency” do not owe a fiduciary duty of care or loyalty to creditors. In so ruling, California joins Delaware in clarifying directors’ duties when the corporation is insolvent or in the zone of insolvency.

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USA, California, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, McDermott Will & Emery, Shareholder, Breach of contract, Fiduciary, Board of directors, Good faith, Duty of care, Delaware Court of Chancery, California courts of appeal, US District Court for Northern District of California