In Servis-Terminal LLC v Drelle [2025] EWCA Civ 62, the English Court of Appeal held that a bankruptcy petition cannot be presented based on an unsatisfied foreign judgment where the foreign judgment has not been recognised in that jurisdiction. This update considers the effect that decision may have on statutory demands and applications for the appointment of liquidators based on unrecognised foreign judgments in the British Virgin Islands.
The Hierarchy of the Courts of the Eastern Caribbean
A note on In the matter of Restore Builders Limited En Désastre [2024] JRC 290.
The Royal Court of Jersey has recently held, for the first time, that the actions of a Jersey company director constituted wrongful trading and ordered that he be personally liable for the company's debts and disqualified as a director for ten years.
Introduction
Die strategische Planung der Maßnahmen ist zentral für das Gelingen arbeitsrechtlicher Umstrukturierungen. Die wichtigsten To-dos erfahren Sie im heutigen Beitrag.
Nachfolgend wird die Einordnung der Umsatzsteuer in der Insolvenz als Masse- oder Insolvenzforderung und die Auswirkung auf die Gläubigerbefriedigung erläutert.
Auch unter betriebswirtschaftlichen Aspekten stellen arbeitsrechtliche Umstrukturierungen eine Herausforderung dar. Wie CMS Advisory Sie dabei unterstützen kann, erfahren Sie im heutigen Beitrag.
Unsere Blog-Serie führt durch die verschiedenen Phasen einer Umstrukturierung und beantwortet damit verbundene Fragen – auch abseits juristischer Themen.
The opening of safeguard or reorganisation proceedings does not automatically terminate a current agreement notwithstanding any contractual clause providing for termination.
Termination by a lessor
The liquidator of UKCloud Ltd (the Company) applied to the court for directions as to whether a debenture granted by the Company created a fixed or floating charge over certain internet protocol (IP) addresses. The lender argued that it had a fixed charge.
Fixed or floating?
Background
The administrators of Toogood International Transport and Agricultural Services Ltd (in administration) issued an application seeking an extension of the administration. Their application also asked the court whether consent to a previous administration extension should have been obtained from a secured creditor which had been paid in full before the extension process.
Once a creditor, always a creditor?
The German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) has clarified the conditions under which incongruent collateral, granted when an insolvency is imminent, can be contested. The burden of proof is placed on the defendant creditor to demonstrate that the action was part of a serious restructuring attempt.
Background