Today, the Government published the highly anticipated Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill (the “CIGB”).  It legislates for the landmark changes to the UK’s corporate insolvency regime and the temporary suspension of the statutory provisions on wrongful trading announced by the Business Secretary on 28 March 2020 (see Weil’s European Restructuring Watch update of 30 March 2020).

New guarantee facility, extension of ERTE temporary layoff procedures, effects of the crisis on transfer pricing, return to judicial activity and ‘shields’ for businesses.

Esta semana cabe destacar la nueva línea de avales, la prórroga de los ERTE, los efectos de la crisis en los precios de transferencia, la vuelta de la actividad judicial y los posibles ‘escudos’ para empresas en dificultades.

On Wednesday 29 April the Outer House of the Court of Session in Edinburgh issued an opinion sanctioning two schemes of arrangement proposed by Premier Oil Plc and Premier Oil UK Limited (together, Premier Oil) (the Schemes). The Court addressed multiple grounds of challenge and did so without hearing live evidence, despite disputes of fact between the parties.

During the state of emergency, various pieces of legislation have been published which affect the corporate bodies of companies. Some of the key new provisions affect matters relating to winding up and shareholders’ right of withdrawal.

In this table we outline the new rules that companies must be aware of in relation to the various grounds for winding up, arising from the measures adopted in royal decree-laws 8/2020, 11/2020 and 16/2020. We also analyze how the shareholders’ right of withdrawal has changed at capital companies and at cooperatives. 

Phase 1 of the ‘scaling-down’ process, third tranche of guarantees, extension of ERTE temporary layoffs, potential delay in the application of VAT directives and of DAC6, and measures to support the cultural sector

Las empresas deben estar atentas esta semana a la fase 1 de la ‘desescalada’, el tercer tramo de avales, la prórroga de los ERTE, el posible retraso en la aplicación de directivas de IVA y de la DAC6 y las medidas de apoyo al sector cultural.

In the majority of surveyed deals (55%), Sponsor-backed IPO companies availed themselves of at least some “controlled company” exemptions available under applicable listing requirements, which, among other things, exempt such companies from certain board and committee director independence requirements (other than with respect to the audit committee).

Esta semana abordamos la reapertura al público de establecimientos, los efectos del RDL 16/2020 en materia procesal, concursal y tributaria, las medidas laborales ante la ‘desescalada’ y las novedades en trámites administrativos

El 29 de abril de 2020 se ha publicado en el BOE el Real-Decreto Ley 16/2020, de 28 de abril, de medidas procesales y organizativas para hacer frente al COVID-19 en el ámbito de la Administración de Justicia, cuyo principal objetivo es preparar a la administración de justicia para la reactivación del normal funcionamiento de los juzgados y tribunales, procurar una salida ágil a la acumulación de los procedimientos suspendidos por la declaración del estado de alarma y adoptar medidas en previsión del aumento de la litigiosidad como consecuencia de las medidas extraordinarias que se h