Hong Kong, Capital Markets, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, Due diligence, Initial public offerings
Hong Kong, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, Court of First Instance (Hong Kong)
Hong Kong, Compliance Management, Construction, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, Bankruptcy, Contempt of court, Costs, Court of First Instance (Hong Kong)
Two directors from the UK were disqualified for 12 years each after they used funds from existing clients to payback previous clients. The directors' company entered into loan agreements with existing clients worth around £9.1 million for forex trades, in return for interest and loan repayments. The Insolvency Service later discovered that at least £8.4 million was used to make interest and loan repayments to previous clients.
United Kingdom, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, White Collar Crime, Addleshaw Goddard LLP, Fraud
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Introduction
Hong Kong, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, RPC, Bankruptcy, Breach of contract, Negligence, Deloitte, Trustee, Court of Appeal of England & Wales, Court of Final Appeal (Hong Kong)
Hong Kong, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, RPC, Discovery, Ex parte, Liquidation, Writ, Liquidator (law), Deloitte, Singapore High Court
From 1 April 2016, conditional fee agreements (CFA), after the event premiums and success fees will no longer be recoverable in insolvency cases.
The legislative change is set to have the biggest impact on lower-value insolvency cases (damages less than £500,000 and legal costs lower than £200,000).