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Australia: Big trouble in small business restructuring

In brief

Australia, Capital Markets, Insolvency & Restructuring, Baker McKenzie
Australia: New Small Business Insolvency Reforms - How Statutory Demands will change from 1 January 2021

 

In brief

The new small business insolvency reforms enacted by the Corporations Amendment (Corporate Insolvency Reforms) Act 2020 (Cth) (Corporations Amendment Act) - which inserts a new Part 5.3B into the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (Corporations Act) - are due to come into effect on 1 January 2021.

Australia, Capital Markets, Insolvency & Restructuring, Baker McKenzie, Coronavirus
Third Circuit Upholds The Enforceability Of Make-Whole Premiums In Post-Bankruptcy Context

In a recent November 17, 2016 opinion, Delaware Trust Co. v. Energy Future Intermediate Holding Company LLC, Case No. 16-1351, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed two lower court opinions by holding that make-whole premiums can be enforceable even if the debt was automatically accelerated by a voluntary bankruptcy filing.

USA, New York, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, Second Circuit, Third Circuit