Cancellation of debt a key element of most restructurings generally triggers taxable income. The German tax authorities had issued an administrative decree (the "Tax Restructuring Decree" - Sanierungserlass), however, declaring that, upon the satisfaction of certain requirements and conditioned on forfeiture of any loss carry forwards, the cancellation of debt income ("CODI") would not be taxed.
On April 20, the House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing to discuss public policy issues raised by last month’s report of court-appointed bankruptcy examiner for Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (Lehman Brothers), Mr. Anton R. Valukas. The Committee heard testimony from the following witnesses:
Panel One:
USA, Capital Markets, Insolvency & Restructuring, Alston & Bird LLP, Bankruptcy, Audit, Board of directors, Accounting, Defamation, Balance sheet, US Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Reserve (USA), FSAB, US House Committee on Financial Services, Chair of the Federal Reserve, Lehman Brothers, Ernst & Young, Chief executive officer