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随着香港及内地就相互认可和协助破产程序及重组事务达成共识,一个新纪元到来了。从今往后,希望通过中国债务人位于香港的财产收回欠款的债权人,或是拥有内地财产的香港运营实体的债权人,终于在谈判桌前享有了话语权。

随着香港及内地就相互认可和协助破产程序及重组事务达成共识,一个新纪元到来了。从今往后,希望通过中国债务人位于香港的财产收回欠款的债权人,或是拥有内地财产的香港运营实体的债权人,终于在谈判桌前享有了话语权。

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Recent missed payments by companies including by one of China's largest coal companies, Yongcheng Coal and Electricity Holding Group, based in Henan, have shaken investors' faith that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) enjoy implicit backing from the authorities, irrespective of their underlying performance. As corporates issue new bonds to pay off old debts as they fall due, thereby 'kicking the can down the road' it is feared that more defaults could follow. Yields on some bonds are reported to have risen to 34 percent, an indicator of the perceived increased risk.

Reverse cross border mergers could become a popular device for UK companies seeking to maintain and preserve “passporting” or other EU rights.

The mechanism of a reverse cross-border merger (in this context whereby a UK parent company merges with their continental European subsidiary) has not historically been permitted under English law. However the provisions of an EU directive implemented in the UK in 2007 changed that position giving UK company groups that option.

On 11 June 2014, the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China ("PRC" or "China")  handed down its ruling in the case of Sino-environment Technology Group Limited  ("Sino-environment") v Thumb Env-Tech Group (Fujian) Co., Ltd ("Thumb").

On 13th August 2013, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and attorneys general from six US states and the District of Columbia filed suit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia to block the merger between US Airways and American Airlines. Days before, a group of American Airlines customers filed a claim that the merger would violate Section 7 of the Clayton Act.