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The collapse of ftx - a regulatory and claims perspective

Cryptoassets are traded on a global basis. Indeed, the markets are even more global and constant than markets in more conventional financial instruments, rivalled only perhaps by the FX markets in their reach.

Global, USA, Delaware, Banking, Compliance Management, Insolvency & Restructuring, IT & Data Protection, Collyer Bristow LLP, Corporate governance, Blockchain, Due diligence, Cryptocurrency
Courts in New York and Singapore reach opposite conclusions on the validity of interpleader applications arising out of the OW Bunker bankruptcy

On 7 November 2014, OW Bunker A/S (“OW”), a global supplier and trader of marine fuel, filed for bankruptcy in Denmark. Further bankruptcies of OW subsidiaries and affiliates swiftly followed, including the bankruptcy of certain U.S. and Singapore-based OW entities.

Singapore, USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Reed Smith LLP, Bankruptcy, Injunction
Anti-suit injunctions, OW bunker and ISDA master agreements

SwissMarine Corporation Limited v O.W. Supply & Trading A/S (in bankruptcy) [2015] EWHC 1571 (Comm)

The Commercial Court has recently refused to grant an anti-suit injunction to SwissMarine Corporation Limited (SwissMarine) to restrain proceedings brought by O.W. Supply & Trading A/S (OW) against SwissMarine in Denmark.

United Kingdom, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Reed Smith LLP, Injunction, Exclusive jurisdiction, International Swaps and Derivatives Association