Desde hace ya tiempo la Administración Tributaria ha venido aplicando, si bien no de forma frecuente, el sistema de responsabilidades regulado en la Ley 58/2003, de 17 de diciembre, General Tributaria (en adelante LGT), en los supuestos en los que el deudor a la Hacienda Pública se encontraba en situación de concurso. 

Garrison Keillor once said, “Sometimes I look reality straight in the eye and deny it.”[1] Being that the case arose in Minnesota, perhaps Circuit Judge Michael Melloy channeled Keillor, one of that state’s great humorists, when he authored the opinion in The Official Commit

In In re Palmaz Scientific Inc., the bankruptcy court for the Western District of Texas determined that a confirmed plan of reorganization would not stop a group of investors from pursuing direct (non-derivative) claims against directors and officers of the debtor companies because plan injunction language only covered claims against the debtors. 2018 WL 1036780, at *5 (Bankr. W.D.

Following a number of corporate governance failures in situations of insolvency, the Government has published a consultation paper (located here) aimed at cracking down on directors and employers behaving irresponsibly.

Providing an exception to the axiom that no good deed goes unpunished, a Texas bankruptcy court recently declared nondischargeable a debt owed to a guarantor who had been forced to pay the debtor’s defaulted student loan.

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In Wright (and another) (as joint liquidators of SHB Realisations Ltd (formerly BHS Ltd) (in liquidation)) v Prudential Assurance Company Ltd, the court held that, when the BHS CVA terminated, the landlord was entitled to claim the full rent due under its lease. With more recent retail CVAs seeking to push the envelope even further, is the continued compromise of landlord creditors post-CVA the next issue to be tested in the courts?

La reciente Sentencia de la Sala de lo Civil del TS de 15 de diciembre de 2017 se pronuncia sobre el criterio temporal de aplicación del Real Decreto-Ley 6/2013, para la protección de los créditos adquiridos por la SAREB frente a una eventual subordinación. Según el Tribunal Supremo, si la calificación del crédito era definitiva antes de la entrada en vigor de la norma, no puede modificarse posteriormente.

In the typical day-to-day experience in bankruptcy proceedings, the debtor’s ability to assume or reject executory contracts and leases under Section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code is seen from the sometimes-unfortunate perspective of the creditor.

Last April, we updated you that the Supreme Court had granted review of In re The Village at Lakeridge, LLC, 814 F.3d 993 (9th Cir. 2016). Our most recent post is here.

La Sala de lo Civil del Tribunal Supremo ha dictado recientemente una sentencia (STS 693/2017, de 20 de diciembre) que, si bien trae causa de un procedimiento concursal, establece conclusiones muy interesantes desde el punto de vista del derecho societario, en materia de conflictos de interés en el seno de los grupos de sociedades.