Los jueces de lo mercantil de Madrid publican una guía para el nombramiento de experto en pre-pack concursal
You can find below a high-level summary of the brand new instruments the reform has introduced in the Spanish corporate restructuring and insolvency toolkit.
1. New restructuring plan
A US Chapter 11-like plan with very light court-involvement and a number of new main features in case it is court-homologated:
1. Fully debtor-in-possession.
El pasado 28 de diciembre de 2022 se publicó en el BOE el Real Decreto-ley 20/2022, de 27 de diciembre, de medidas de respuesta a las consecuencias económicas y sociales de la Guerra de Ucrania y de apoyo a la reconstrucción de la isla de La Palma y a otras situaciones de vulnerabilidad.
The scheme offers a credible implementation alternative, but no “one size fits all” solution exists for German credits.
German credits in sectors such as real estate, automotive, and energy face a worsening macro backdrop. At the same time, the available toolkit for financial restructurings has expanded, offering multiple options without the need for recourse to insolvency proceedings.
Judicial comments cast doubt on the ability to compromise US law-governed debt effectively based on Chapter 15 recognition alone.
La reforma concursal recientemente aprobada ha sustituido los acuerdos de refinanciación y los acuerdos extrajudiciales de pago por los planes de reestructuración. Para los socios en general, y de la empresa familiar en particular, esta reforma supone un cambio de paradigma, ya que, en determinadas condiciones, los acreedores podrían imponerles un plan de reestructuración mediante el cual los acreedores tomen el control del capital de la compañía, amortizando las participaciones de los socios fundadores o preexistentes.
In a new ruling, the UK Supreme Court concluded that the rule applies only when a company is "insolvent or bordering on insolvency".
On 5 October 2022, the UK Supreme Court handed down judgment in BTI 2014 LLC v. Sequana SA and others (Sequana)1. The case required the court to reconcile differing judicial pronouncements of the "creditors' interest rule" (the Rule) and consider the following questions:
The Act n 16/2022, dated September 5, on the reform of the Recast Insolvency Act, published on September 6, 2022, brings deep and major changes to the existing legislation.
The amendment will come into force on September 26, 2022, twenty days after its publication, and affect both proceedings commencing after entry into force of the legislation and a few parts of proceedings that had commenced earlier.
The differences between the original bill and the approved insolvency reform are shown in the compared version available here.
El 6 de septiembre se ha publicado en el Boletn Oficial del Estado la Ley 16/2022, de 5 de septiembre, de reforma del Texto Refundido de la Ley Concursal, que trae consigo importantes y profundas modificaciones en la norma vigente.
La modificacin entrar en vigor el 26 de septiembre de 2022, a los veinte das desde su publicacin, y afectar tanto a los procedimientos que se inicien tras la entrada en vigor de la norma como a algunas partes de aquellos que se hubieran abierto con anterioridad.
The court's decision in In re Imerys Talc America, Inc. clarifies the appointment standard for future claimants representatives in the Third Circuit under Section 524(g) of the US Bankruptcy Code.
In a precedential decision, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld the appointment of James L. Patton, Jr. as the legal representative for future talc claimants (FCR) by the bankruptcy court in the Imerys Talc America chapter 11 cases.1