On 31 October 2023, Federal Law No. 51 of 2023 Promulgating the Financial and Bankruptcy Law (the Bankruptcy Law) was published in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Official Gazette, repealing the prior federal law on bankruptcy (Federal Law No. 9 of 2016, the Prior Law) and significantly developing the bankruptcy regime in the UAE.
Introduction
The Productivity Commission published its final report on Business Set-up, Transfer and Closure on 7 December 2015. A copy of the final report is available here.
The final report recommends a number of changes to Australia's corporate insolvency laws and follows public consultation on the Productivity Commission's draft report released in May 2015.
Introduction
On 1 July 2015, the Commonwealth Government launched the Fair Entitlements Guarantee Recovery Programme for an initial period of two years. The purpose of the Recovery Programme is to increase the prospects of the Commonwealth recovering amounts it has paid to former employees of companies in liquidation pursuant to the Fair Entitlements Guarantee Scheme[1].