In a recent High Court decision, a provisional liquidator was ordered to pay the costs of the official liquidator (who replaced the provisional liquidator and was appointed as the new liquidator of the company) and Revenue without being entitled to have recourse to the assets of the company.

The Examinership of Norwegian Air

Key Features

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The Examinership of Norwegian Air Group Key Features

On 26 May 2021 Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA (NAS) and related companies (Norwegian Air) exited examinership in Ireland. Through the restructuring Norwegian Air:

raised NOK 6 billion (590 million) in new capital through share and hybrid debt offerings;

The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment has published the outline of proposed legislation for a dedicated rescue and restructuring framework for insolvent or potentially insolvent small and micro companies – see here.

Background

In a recent High Court decision, it was ruled that the liquidator not only failed in his application before the court, but in bringing forward an application that was 'doomed to fail', the liquidator was acting negligently and breached his duty of care to the company as liquidator. As a result, the liquidator was held personally liable for the costs of the application.

Editorial | CEE

Am 23.02.2021 wurde der lang erwartete Entwurf der Restrukturierungsordnung veröffentlicht. Mit dem Entwurf soll die Richtlinie (EU) 2019/1023 (RestrukturierungsRL) in Österreich umgesetzt werden.

Der Entwurf in 5 Fragen

Warum?

Erleichterung der Sanierung durch Möglichkeit einer gerichtlich bestätigten Mehrheitsentscheidung der Gläubiger.

Wer?

1.1 Corona Relief Fund (for more details check out our legal insight)

Status as of 17/02

Table of Content

• 1 Financial Support Measures
• 2 Capital Markets
• 3 Employment
• 4 Real Estate & Construction
• 5 Tax & Duties
• 6 Corporate, M&A
• 7 EU & Competition
• 8 Courts and Authorities
• 9 Healthcare
• 10 Insolvency & Restructuring
• 11 Insurance
• 12 Intellectual Property
• 13 Telecom & Data Protection
• 14 Other

1 Financial Support Measures

On 24 September 2020, the European Commission (the Commission) relaunched its Capital Markets Union project with the publication of its ambitious new initiative,"A Capital Markets Union for people and businesses – new action plan" (the Action Plan). The purpose of the Action Plan is to reduce the current fragmented approach in financial markets and to tackle some of the remaining barriers to a single European capital market.

Status as of 3/11 11:40 am CET               

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