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Distressed companies open the liability toolbox to avoid full-blown bankruptcies

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USA, Banking, Corporate Finance/M&A, Insolvency & Restructuring, White & Case, Bankruptcy, Private equity, Coronavirus
Who is the noteholder and who is the creditor

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Towards the end of 2020, while businesses were reeling from the challenges of grappling with a global pandemic, the end of the Brexit transition period and LIBOR transition, the Law Commission published a paper analysing the current law underlying intermediated securities - Intermediated securities: who owns your shares? A Scoping Paper.

European Union, France, United Kingdom, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Public, Stephenson Harwood LLP, Brexit, Libor
Treatment of senior unsecured debt in European leveraged finance transactions: Court of Appeal confirms no duty to unsecured third party creditors on enforcement

In our recent note “Treatment of senior unsecured debt in European leveraged finance transactions: the need for an intercreditor agreement”, which can be viewed here, we addressed the increase in flexibility in European financings to incur senior unsecured debt and the risk that the lack of any agreed intercreditor arrangement may impair senior secured lenders’ ability to realise recoveries from a European Credit

United Kingdom, Aviation, Banking, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, White & Case, Unsecured debt, Court of Appeal of England & Wales