Hong Kong, Capital Markets, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, Due diligence, Initial public offerings
Hong Kong, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, Court of First Instance (Hong Kong)
Hong Kong, Compliance Management, Construction, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, Bankruptcy, Contempt of court, Costs, Court of First Instance (Hong Kong)
Insolvency Petitions: Exclusive Jurisdiction Clauses and Arbitration Clauses - A tale of two clauses
The interplay between an arbitration clause and a creditor’s winding up petition is a vexed question which has given rise to a string of cases, including Lasmos Ltd v Southwest Pacific Bauxite (HK) Ltd [2018] 2 HKLRD 449, Re Asia Master Logistics Ltd [2020] 2 HKLRD 423 and But Ka Chon v Interactive Brokers LLC [2019] 4 HKLRD 873.
Hong Kong, Arbitration & ADR, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Des Voeux Chambers, Arbitration clause
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Introduction
Hong Kong, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, RPC, Bankruptcy, Breach of contract, Negligence, Deloitte, Trustee, Court of Appeal of England & Wales, Court of Final Appeal (Hong Kong)
Hong Kong, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, RPC, Discovery, Ex parte, Liquidation, Writ, Liquidator (law), Deloitte, Singapore High Court
From 1 April 2016, conditional fee agreements (CFA), after the event premiums and success fees will no longer be recoverable in insolvency cases.
The legislative change is set to have the biggest impact on lower-value insolvency cases (damages less than £500,000 and legal costs lower than £200,000).