本文结合了笔者承办的2023年度“全国破产经典案例”哈尔滨工大高新技术产业开发股份有限公司等五家公司破产重整案和近年来约50家退市公司重整的理论分析和实践经验,探讨退市公司独有的重整价值、重整路径及实务中的常见争议疑难问题,现采撷文章要点,抛砖引玉供各界同仁研究探讨。
一、引言
2024年4月,国务院出台《关于加强监管防范风险推动资本市场高质量发展的若干意见》,中国证券监督管理委员会出台《关于严格执行退市制度的意见》,证券交易所修订《上海证券交易所股票上市规则》《深圳证券交易所股票上市规则》等业务规则(以下合称“国九条及相关配套文件”)。“国九条及相关配套文件”旨在加强对市场的监管,倡导退市常态化。在2019年以前,每年退市数量几乎都在个位数;自2019年开始,上市公司退市逐渐进入加速状态,2020年退市数量达到20家,2021年退市数量达到23家,2022年退市数量达到50家,2023年退市数量达到46家,2024年度截至9月6日已经退市49家企业。上市公司退市后的出路作为整体性退市制度设计的一环,退市公司破产重整逐渐引发学界和市场的关注。
With two decisions (No. 1895/2018 and No. 1896/2018), both filed on 25 January 2018, the Court of Cassation reached opposite conclusions in the two different situations
The case
The Constitutional Court (6 December 2017) confirmed that Art. 147, para. 5, of the Italian Bankruptcy Law does not violate the Constitution as long as it is interpreted in a broad sense
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With the decision No. 1195 of 18 January 2018, the Court of Cassation ruled on the powers of the extraordinary commissioner to require performance of pending contracts and on the treatment of the relevant claims of the suppliers
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The Court of Cassation with a decision of 25 September 2017, No. 22274 confirms that Art. 74 of the Italian Bankruptcy Law provides a special rule, which does not apply to cases to which it is not explicitly extended
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With the decision No. 1649 of 19 September 2017 the Court of Appeals of Catania followed the interpretation according to which a spin-off is not subject to the avoiding powers of a bankruptcy receiver
The case
Applicable law
The Italian Government has been delegated to enact a comprehensive restatement of the whole set of rules of insolvency procedures, with specific innovative addresses regarding (to mention only the most important) the concordato preventivo procedure, venue rules, an out-of-court mediation alert process to timely address a risk of insolvency, new forms of security and a streamlined set of priorities among creditors
Introduction
The Court of Padua (15 June 2017) ruled that, in the procedure provided by Legislative Decree No. 270/1999, the three-year statute of limitations period provided by Art. 69-bis of the Italian Bankruptcy Law starts from the declaration of insolvency and not from the authorization of the plan for the sale of the business
The case
The Court with two recent decisions (6 April 2017, No. 8903 and 13 April 2017, No. 9547) confirmed that the Public Prosecutor is entitled to file for bankruptcy also in case he became aware of the insolvency in the course of a probe regarding other companies or individuals and within the concordato preventivo procedure.
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