The Madrid Provincial Court applied the doctrine of the Supreme Court judgment of April 30, 2014, no. 100/20148, and declared the rescission of a personal guarantee granted by the insolvent company to secure the loan granted by a credit institution to a related company.
The insolvency system established under Royal Decree-Law 5/2005 applies to interest rate swap agreements if they are subject to a contractual compensation agreement, even when there is only a financial transaction under that agreement. Any claims arising from these agreements that might have accrued after the declaration of insolvency will be charged against the insolvency estate.
The Council of State has issued a report regarding the request for a declaration of the administration’s financial liability made by a party expropriated for fair value in legal proceedings in view of the declaration of insolvency of the concessionaire benefitting from the expropriation.
The Iowa Commissioner of Insurance (the “Commissioner”) filed a petition, on January 29, 2015, seeking to liquidate CoOpportunity Health, Inc. (“CoOpportunity”), a Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (“CO-OP”) established under the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) that has sold health insurance on the Iowa and Nebraska Exchanges.
On October 20, 2014, we issued a Legal News Alert commenting on a decision of the Delaware Supreme Court, on certification from the Second Circuit, regarding the effect of a mistaken UCC-3 termination statement.The Delaware Supreme Court held that an indisputably mistaken UCC-3 termination statement that purported to terminate a lender’s security interest in a $1.
There is a lot of chatter around the water cooler about how falling energy prices puts energy companies and service companies into distress, and—importantly for private equity investors with liquidity—provides an opportunity to acquire energy assets at distressed prices. In part one of this posting, I provided a very basic hypothetical to help la
As we explained in a post yesterday, the Seventh Circuit in In re Bronk (Cirilli v.
In re Bronk (Cirilli v. Bronk), No. 13-1123 (7th Cir. Jan. 5, 2015), resolved a couple of “questions of first impression,” slip op.
Judgment of the Supreme Court of Justice No 15/2014, published in Diário da República (Portuguese official gazette) No 24 of 2014-12-22
Insolvency – Insolvency Administrator – Presumption of bad faith
Portaria (Ordinance) No 261/2014 - Diário da República (Portuguese official gazette) No 242/2014, Series I of 2014-12-16
Amending for the first time the Regulation of the Local Support and Micro-company Incentive Scheme.
Reviewing the legal framework of urban lease.