Sova Capital Ltd (“Sova”) was an FCA authorised and regulated broker. Before it went into Special Administration, Sova provided investment brokerage services to institutional and corporate clients, mostly trading in the Russian market.
The war in Ukraine continues and the economic effect of sanctions against businesses that are connected to the Russian government are now being felt in earnest. Unsurprisingly, sanctions are becoming an increasingly hot topic for insolvency practitioners.
Recent months have seen the Courts hand down some important decisions, which provide helpful guidance on situations where the sanctions regime interfaces with insolvency processes. We have summarised three of the most significant in this article.
Summary
In the recent Court of Appeal decision Bacci v Green [2022] EWCA Civ 1393 the Court, upholding the decision of the High Court, held that a judgment debtor can be ordered to delegate authority to waive valuable tax protection and draw pension where doing so would enable creditors to extract what they were owed.
The Facts
In 2017, Matthew Green, son of established Mayfair art dealer Richard Green, committed fraud in obtaining loans from FundingSecure.
On 28 October 2022, the High Court handed down judgment in the case of Alma Property Management Ltd v Crompton And Another [2022] EWHC 2671 (Ch).
In this case, the (freeholder) Claimant sought an order for specific performance of the (leaseholder) Defendants' repairing obligations under a lease of the common parts of a block of flats called North Tower in Manchester.
El Tribunal Supremo establece que la nulidad de un acuerdo de la junta de no repartir dividendos puede ser abusivo y condena a la sociedad a pagar a los socios un dividendo del 75 por ciento de las ganancias del ejercicio.
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The Supreme Court has been given its first opportunity to “address the existence, scope and engagement of an alleged duty of company directors to consider, or to act in accordance with, the interests of the company’s creditors when the company becomes insolvent, or when it approaches, or is at real risk of, insolvency”. The corporate restructuring and insolvency community has been waiting for this “momentous” judgment with anticipation for the last 17 months.
The facts of the case:
El Tribunal Supremo confirma la negativa del Registrador Mercantil a inscribir la renuncia del administrador único por no atender la solicitud de presencia de un notario en la junta general en la que se nombra al nuevo administrador, realizada por un socio con posterioridad a la renuncia del administrador, pero antes de la celebración de la junta.
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Continuando con nuestro envío anterior, nos alegra compartir, en esta ocasión, una guía práctica que nuestro equipo de concursal ha preparado sobre la reforma del Texto Refundido de la Ley Concursal. Para facilitar la comprensión y alcance de esta profunda revisión de la normativa concursal en España, se ha estructurado su análisis en tres partes:
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Nos alegra compartir este compendio que ha preparado nuestro equipo de Concursal con la evolución de la reforma delTexto Refundido de la Ley Concursaldesde el texto de la Directiva hasta la redacción aprobada, incluyendo los principales informes
Summary
On 21 March 2022, the High Court in Counsel General for Wales and others v Allen and others [2022] EWHC 647 (Ch) (Re Baglan Operations Ltd) modified the decision of the Official Receiver to allow the insolvent Baglan Operations Limited (in liquidation) (the 'Company') to continue trading for a period of time to prevent environmental harm to the locality.