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UK Government consultation on a new insolvency regime for UK-authorised payment institutions and electronic money institutions

On 3 December 2020, the UK Government (HM Treasury) issued a consultation paper (the Consultation) setting out a proposal to implement a new “special administration regime” (the SAR) which it is proposed would apply to any insolvency of an authorised payment institution (a PI) or electronic money institution (an EMI).

United Kingdom, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Bird & Bird LLP, Financial Conduct Authority (UK)
HM Treasury publishes consultation on a new insolvency regime for UK authorised payment institutions (PI) and electronic money institutions (EMI)

On 3 December 2020, HM Treasury published the Government's proposal to implement a new special administration regime for PIs and EMIs (PI and EMI SAR), a copy of which can be seen here.

United Kingdom, Insolvency & Restructuring, Bird & Bird LLP, Financial Conduct Authority (UK)
Private equity firm held not responsible for portfolio company’s failure to provide adequate notice under WARN Act

In Czyzewski v. Sun Capital Partners, Inc.1, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware affirmed a Bankruptcy Court determination that a private equity firm was not liable for its subsidiary portfolio company’s failure to provide adequate notice of a plant closing under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN Act).

USA, Delaware, Employment & Labor, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, Sun Capital Partners, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act 1988 (USA)