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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?

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

A recent decision of New York’s highest court potentially strengthens the ability of lenders to bring suits against third parties for participation in a borrower’s breach of single purpose entity/bankruptcy remote loan document covenants.

A recent decision of New York’s highest court potentially strengthens the ability of lenders to bring suits against third parties for participation in a borrower’s breach of single purpose entity/bankruptcy remote loan document covenants.

Australia and the United States have much in common. We have a shared history, a common language, and a similar common law-based legal system governing a federated nation occupying a large land mass blessed with abundant natural and human resources. The United States is one of Australia’s greatest trading partners, and we welcome inward investment from the U.S. with most favoured nation trade terms. We also enjoy a friendship and strategic alliance that goes back over a century.

On August 11, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed lower court decisions rejecting Lehman Brothers Special Financing Inc.’s (“LBSF”) attempt to recover nearly $1 billion in payments to noteholders and enforcing certain Priority Provisions (defined below) that subordinated payments otherwise payable to LBSF under related swap transactions.