Highlights

In an effort to resolve divergent court rulings, the new Consolidated Appropriations Act gives the Small Business Administration discretion to determine which small and individual debtors may obtain PPP loans in bankruptcy

The CAA allows debtors in all bankruptcy cases to automatically take up to 210 days (thereby extending the statutory period by 90 days) to choose to continue with a non-residential real property lease and provides an additional grace period on payments for small business debtors after a filing

Usual Luxembourg security package

Luxembourg is one of the leading domiciles worldwide for international investment portfolio acquisition vehicles.

Acquisition financing are usually secured against the assets and cash flows of the target company as well as of the buyout vehicle.

In practice, given that a Luxembourg holding company generally does not have any operational activities, shares, receivables and cash on bank are the most important assets to cover.