The High Court has handed down judgment against two former directors of a number of BHS group companies. The Joint Liquidators, Anthony Wright and Geoffrey Rowley (both of FRP Advisory) brought claims against Lennart Henningson and Dominic Chandler for wrongful trading, misfeasance trading and individual misfeasance.
Wrongful trading
United Kingdom, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Addleshaw Goddard LLP, Companies Act 2006 (UK)
A February 16, 2021 decision of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York held, in In re Citibank August 11, 2020 Wire Transfers, 520 F. Supp. 3d 390, that lenders who received almost $900 million mistakenly wired to them by Citibank (the administrative agent for a $1.8-billion syndicated seven-year term loan to Revlon [2016 Loan]) were entitled to keep the money.
USA, New York, Banking, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, Clawback/avoidance/preferences/fraudulent transfers, Avoidance/clawback, Citibank, U.S. Court of Appeals