Fulltext Search
Managing the Tax Impact of Debt Restructuring in the Wake of COVID-19

Many businesses are—or soon will be—unable to meet their obligations. Not all businesses in distress are unsuccessful; sometimes, as in the economic circumstances arising from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and the governmental directives tailored to address the related public health issues, even successful businesses must confront closures and steep declines in demand that could not have been anticipated, and may find it necessary or desirable to restructure their existing debt obligations.

USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Tax, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, Coronavirus
Court affirms priority entitlement of Canadian creditors to post-liquidation interest from Canadian branch of foreign insurance company

On July 14, 2009, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice released its decision in Canada (Attorney General) v. Reliance Insurance Company, an application regarding the allocation of surplus arising from the liquidation of the Canadian branch (Reliance Canada) of U.S.-based Reliance Insurance Company (Reliance U.S.), a property and casualty insurer that was itself in liquidation.

Canada, Ontario, Insolvency & Restructuring, Insurance, Litigation, Stikeman Elliott LLP, Dividends, Interest, Reinsurance, Liquidation, Substantive law, Liquidator (law), Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (Canada), KPMG, Minister of Justice (Canada), Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania