Despite three recent landmark UK restructuring plan decisions, uncertainty remains around the value, if any, a plan company should offer dissenting creditors as the “deliverability price” of a plan.

Actions brought against the BHS directors by the group’s liquidators have resulted in the largest reported award for wrongful trading since the provision’s introduction, but the judgment highlights some unsettled areas of the law relating to directors’ duties.

The key distinction between a fixed and a floating charge is well established as a matter of English law.

Die strategische Planung der Maßnahmen ist zentral für das Gelingen arbeitsrechtlicher Umstrukturierungen. Die wichtigsten To-dos erfahren Sie im heutigen Beitrag.

Nachfolgend wird die Einordnung der Umsatzsteuer in der Insolvenz als Masse- oder Insolvenzforderung und die Auswirkung auf die Gläubigerbefriedigung erläutert.

Auch unter betriebswirtschaftlichen Aspekten stellen arbeitsrechtliche Umstrukturierungen eine Herausforderung dar. Wie CMS Advisory Sie dabei unterstützen kann, erfahren Sie im heutigen Beitrag.

Unsere Blog-Serie führt durch die verschiedenen Phasen einer Umstrukturierung und beantwortet damit verbundene Fragen – auch abseits juristischer Themen.

The opening of safeguard or reorganisation proceedings does not automatically terminate a current agreement notwithstanding any contractual clause providing for termination.

Termination by a lessor

The liquidator of UKCloud Ltd (the Company) applied to the court for directions as to whether a debenture granted by the Company created a fixed or floating charge over certain internet protocol (IP) addresses. The lender argued that it had a fixed charge.

Fixed or floating?

Background

The administrators of Toogood International Transport and Agricultural Services Ltd (in administration) issued an application seeking an extension of the administration. Their application also asked the court whether consent to a previous administration extension should have been obtained from a secured creditor which had been paid in full before the extension process.

Once a creditor, always a creditor?