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
In The Joint Provisional Liquidators of BJB Career Education Company Limited (In Provisional Liquidation) v Xu Zhendong1, the Court of First Instance considered the Hong Kong courts' common law powers to recognise and assist foreign courts and insolvency practitioners overseeing non-Hong Kong insolvency proceedings.
The questions considered by the court were:
Hong Kong, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, HFW, Court of First Instance (Hong Kong)