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Australia: Big trouble in small business restructuring

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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
Bankruptcy remote financings in jeopardy after Michigan appellate court decision

The proliferation of limited recourse financings popularized in the commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS) loan market through the financial innovation of loan securitization may be in jeopardy following the decision of the Michigan Court of Appeals in Wells Fargo, N.A. vs. Cherryland Mall Limited Partnership.1   If the Michigan decision is widely followed, an array of unanticipated consequences may arise that could have profound effects on the debt capital markets generally and on single purpose entity (SPE) borrowers in particular.

USA, Banking, Capital Markets, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Fox Rothschild LLP, Bankruptcy, Surety, Debtor, Collateral (finance), Default (finance), Commercial mortgage-backed security, Mortgage-backed security