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The final chapter? Winding up the z III trust

RE Z III Trust [2019] JRC 069

The Royal Court of Jersey has determined that the preferred course to follow when winding up an insolvent trust is for the existing trustee to apply a formal winding up procedure under the Court's supervision. Key features of this procedure would be (i) a moratorium on legal claims; (ii) the trustee should advertise for claims on the trust assets; and (iii) the trustee should require creditors to prove their claims before distributing the assets.

The Z Trusts litigation

Jersey, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Private Client & Offshore Services, Collas Crill
British Virgin Islands court rules on the ranking of redeemed shareholders

A recent decision from the Commercial Court of the British Virgin Islands has clarified the position of a redeemed shareholder of a fund who has a claim for redemption proceeds which have become due and payable. In the matter ofWestern Union International Limited v Reserve International Liquidity Fund Ltd., the court considered the status of a redeemed shareholder both before and after the commencement of the liquidation of a fund and the operation of Section 197 of the Insolvency Act, 2003 (the “Act”). Section 197 states that:

British Virgin Islands, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Proskauer Rose LLP, Share (finance), Regulatory compliance, Shareholder, Unsecured debt, Dividends, Market liquidity, Liquidation, Articles of association, Internal Revenue Service (USA), US Federal Government, Internal Revenue Code (USA)