On December 5, 2022, in In re Global Cord Blood Corp., 2022 WL 17478530 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. Dec. 5, 2022) (“Global Cord”), the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Court”) denied recognition of a proceeding pending in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands (the “Cayman Proceeding” and the court, the “Cayman Court”) because it was more like a corporate governance and fraud remediation effort than a collective proceeding for the purpose of dealing with reorganization or liquidation, as Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code requires.
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In the recent case of Re Unity Group Holdings International Limited [2022] HKCFI 3419, the Hong Kong Court of First Instance sanctioned a scheme of arrangement between Unity Group Holdings International Limited and its creditors. This case confirms that the guarantor’s scheme can discharge debts owed by principal obligors who are members of the same group.
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