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La Ley Concursal española prevé distintos tipos de marcos legales de reestructuración o insolvencia. El primero de ellos es el concurso de acreedores, que es un procedimiento sometido a una supervisión

The Spanish Insolvency Law sets out various types of restructuring or insolvency legal frameworks. The first is the “concurso de acreedores” or insolvency proceeding, which is a proceeding that is 

The Spanish Insolvency Law sets out various types of restructuring or insolvency legal frameworks. The first is the “concurso de acreedores” or insolvency proceeding, which is a proceeding that is 

Los efectos de la pandemia se están materializando en un incremento significativo de la deuda de consumidores y empresas. En este contexto, nuestra previsión es que, en los próximos años, las transacciones sobre deuda y activos tóxicos alcanzarán niveles muy elevados. Desde Garrigues, analizamos en este documento la situación y tendencias del mercado de deuda en Latinoamérica, España y Portugal, donde se percibe una clara tendencia a la sofisticación de este tipo de operaciones.

Pandemia COVID-19

In the wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant increase in debt held by both consumers and companies. Over the coming years, we expect to see a large number of debt and distressed asset deals. In this viewpoint, Garrigues provides in this documentan analysis of the debt market situation and trends in Latin America, Spain and Portugal, where there is a clear move toward greater sophistication in these deals.

COVID-19 pandemic

In the previous four articles in this series (see here) we looked at the key role of professional investors at startups, though also at the setbacks of the exclusive dependence of these types of companies on equity and the advantages debt would have for them. The environment, as we saw, is also a favorable one for borrowing. We described the difficulty to provide general recipes for getting debt and a few not very promising routes.

En los cuatro artículos anteriores de esta serie (ver aquí) analizamos el papel clave de los inversores profesionales en las 'startups', pero también las desventajas de la exclusiva dependencia de este tipo de empresas del 'equity' y las ventajas que tendría la deuda para ellas. El entorno, como vimos, es además favorable para el endeudamiento. Abordamos la dificultad de ofrecer recetas generales para conseguir deuda y algunas vías no muy prometedoras.

The UK Government has today announced plans to introduce new legislation which will require mandatory independent scrutiny of 'pre-pack' administration sales, where connected parties, such as the insolvent company's existing directors or shareholders, are involved in the transaction.

La Ley Concursal define insolvencia como la incapacidad del empresario para cumplir regularmente con sus obligaciones exigibles.

Although the Sunbird scheme of arrangement was approved by the relevant creditors, sanction was refused by Mr. Justice Snowdon, who highlighted:

  • a ‘paucity of information provided by the company as part of the scheme process’, and
  • a failure to engage with creditors ‘whom the directors clearly felt were irrelevant or would be an obstacle to their plans’.

He remarked that the company’s approach 'fell a considerable distance short of what was required for a fair process'.