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Will We Have New Rules for Corporate Bankruptcies? Recently Proposed Legislation That Could Reform Chapter 11 Practice

Overview

USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, US Congress
No Setoff Here: Third Circuit Resolves Triangular Setoff Debate Once and for All

Introduction

USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
Delaware Bankruptcy Court Weighs in: Debtors Are Not Excluded From Bankruptcy Code’s Definition of “Financial Participant” and Safe Harbor

Introduction

USA, Delaware, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
syncreon’s Financial Restructuring Implemented by Landmark English Schemes of Arrangement with Parallel Chapter 15 and CCAA Recognition

syncreon Group Holdings B.V. (the “Company” and together with its subsidiaries, “syncreon”) completed its landmark financial restructuring today. As has been widely reported, syncreon’s reorganization is perhaps the first-ever use of an English scheme to restructure debt issued by a U.S.-based global enterprise. This also appears to be the first time that CCAA recognition of an English scheme has been granted.

The Restructuring

USA, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
A Check is Transferred When It’s Honored, Not Delivered

Readers familiar with contract law undoubtedly know the “mailbox rule,” that an offer is accepted the moment a document goes in the mail.1 The United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit (the “BAP”) recently dealt with its own variant of the mailbox rule: does the issuance of a check constitute a transfer of estate assets on the date the check is delivered or on the date it is honored?

USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, Ninth Circuit, Bankruptcy Appellate Panel
Landlord wins as CVA term not a penalty

Following the liquidation of BHS Ltd, the High Court was asked to consider whether a landlord could claim full rent as an administration expense following termination of the CVA.

Background

Wright and another (Liquidators of SHB Realisations Ltd) v The Prudential Assurance Company Ltd concerned three principal insolvency processes applicable to companies under the Insolvency Act 1986:

United Kingdom, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Real Estate, Shoosmiths LLP, Liquidation