Summary

If a person presents a petition for their own bankruptcy (“self-petition”), are there any safeguards to ensure that the self-petition is genuine, as opposed to a cynical device by the person to buy themselves time to pay, or to give themselves some negotiating position with their creditors?

This interesting question was considered in a recent Hong Kong judgment.

Mark Goodman, Paul Kennedy, Guy Cowan and Katie Logan, Campbells

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Juan Carlos Machorro, Carlos Olvera and Ricardo Orea, Santamarina y Steta

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Elizabeth McColm, Brian Bolin and Grace Hotz, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison

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Peter Ferrer, Harneys

This is an extract from the 2022 edition of GRR's the Americas Restructuring Review. The whole publication is available here.

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Fabio Guzmán-Saladín and Pamela Benzán Arbaje, Guzmán Ariza

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Ken Baird, Mark Liscio, Michael Broeders, Marvin Knapp, Samantha Braunstein and Katharina Crinson, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

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Richard J Cooper, Lisa M Schweitzer, Jessica Metzger and Richard C Minott, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

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Luiz Fernando Valente de Paiva, Giuliano Colombo, Andre Moraes Marques, Thiago Junqueira and Carolina Kiyomi Iwamoto, Pinheiro Neto Advogados

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John Wasty, John Riihiluoma, Lalita Vaswani and Sam Riihiluoma, Appleby

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