1. My tenant is in administration, do they have to pay the full rent and is the administrator personally liable?

The company in administration has to pay rent as an administration expense for each day that the company occupies or uses the property for the benefit of the administration. The administrator is not personally liable, but the rent is payable as a priority expense ahead of the administrator's fees.

Over the past year, the ebb and flow of bankruptcy filings has been an interesting one. Through 11 months, the number of bankruptcy filings has decreased from 2021, which was already at its lowest level since the 1980s.

The total number of bankruptcy filings through November stands at 346,760. Based on a recent monthly uptick in both consumer and commercial filings, we should expect the year to end with approximately 385,000, a 4% decrease from the 401,291 filings in 2021.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently affirmed a bankruptcy court’s judgment in favor of a debtor who sought to avoid a judgment lien under California’s homestead exemption law.

In so ruling, the Ninth Circuit held that, when a judgment lien impairs a debtor’s state-law homestead exemption, the Bankruptcy Code requires courts to determine the exemption to which the debtor would have been entitled in the absence of the lien.

Introducción

En las Píldoras de este mes de noviembre destacamos dos sentencias de audiencias provinciales:

• la de la AP de Tarragona que anula la garantía hipotecaria de la filial en favor de la deuda de su matriz a pesar de que había sido la matriz quien le aportó los fondos para comprar los inmuebles que se hipotecan. La audiencia adapta la doctrina de la compensación equivalente y considera que se sacrifica más de lo que se gana y por tanto el sacrificio patrimonial es injustificado.

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Entre las sentencias hechas públicas este mes de octubre reseñamos las incluidas en este resumen siendo especialmente destacable entre ellas la de la Audiencia Provincial de Asturias de 20 julio de 2022. En ella se rechaza el pacto por el cual un inmueble hipotecado adquirido en el concurso con subrogación en la deuda se pretende transmitir a otra sociedad del grupo con carga pero sin deuda.

In response to a certified question from a bankruptcy court, the Arizona Supreme Court held that a recorded judgment lien attaches to homestead property where the judgment debtor has equity in excess of the $150,000 exemption under Arizona law.

In addition, given the uncertainty of the law that prompted the certified question, the Court denied the bank’s request for attorney’s fees.

Major restructuring destinations each provide distinct mechanisms for rehabilitating companies in distress. Our table sets out the similarities and differences in the processes available in Australia, England & Wales, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the USA.

Object of schemes of arrangement

This table provides a high level overview of the restructuring and insolvency processes available in Australia, comparing their purposes, effects, advantages and disadvantages.