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Procedure
On 25 January 2022, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published draft guidance on how it will approach ‘compromises’ by regulated firms. The guidance is expressed to cover restructuring plans, schemes of arrangement and CVAs.
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A number of key decisions from the English courts in 2021 illustrate the litigation trends that are likely to have implications for the financial services industry in 2022 and beyond (see below “Cases to watch in 2022”).
Market misconduct and mis-selling
In the first of a series of claims issued by ECU Group Plc in relation to alleged wrongdoing in the foreign exchange markets by a number of banks, the High Court held that:
This blog entry will be the first in a new, ongoing series of entries in the “Bankruptcy Protector” that will attempt to familiarize new attorneys and non-bankruptcy practitioners with the basic concepts of bankruptcy law of which all lawyers should be aware.
In Parts 1, 2 and 3 we covered some easy traps to fall into when trying to execute a distressed financing tr
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In our last blogpost (here) we reported how the court had, for the first time, exercised its power under s. 901C(4) Companies Act 2006 to exclude a company’s members and all but one class of its creditors from voting on a restructuring plan under Part 26A. The facts of this case are set out in more detail in that blogpost.
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New developments regarding Spanish pre-insolvency restructuring tools
14 January 2022
The bill for the Amendment of the Spanish Insolvency Law that transposes Directive 2019/1023 has been published in the Spanish Congress Official Gazette (the Bill), setting out structural reforms in pre-insolvency and insolvency regulations to achieve the following goals:
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Novedades en la Ley Concursal espaola en los procesos de refinanciacin
14 de enero 2022
El Boletn Oficial de las Cortes Generales - Congreso ha publicado el Proyecto de Ley de Reforma de la Ley Concursal que traspone la Directiva 2019/1023 (el Proyecto de Ley) que acomete una reforma estructural en el mbito preconcursal y concursal con numerosas novedades y con los siguientes objetivos: