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From July 21, the reform of rules on prospectuses, intended to establish a common rulebook across the EU to encourage financing through capital markets, will directly apply in Spain.

The perspective of a ahot summer arriving is an excellent opportunity to take a look at the most relevant events that occured on the second quarter of 2019.

On an international level, and in contrast with the previous quarters, few events are worth mentioning.

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Summary: Robin Ganguly explains predictive coding and technology assisted review for trial use, and how the technology might be used for insolvency investigations.

On the morning that Mothercare announced its CVA, its share price went up by 35% (from 20p to 27p) and now sits at 35p (up 75%) from the price the day before the CVA was launched.

With two decisions (No. 1895/2018 and No. 1896/2018), both filed on 25 January 2018, the Court of Cassation reached opposite conclusions in the two different situations

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The Constitutional Court (6 December 2017) confirmed that Art. 147, para. 5, of the Italian Bankruptcy Law does not violate the Constitution as long as it is interpreted in a broad sense

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With the decision No. 1195 of 18 January 2018, the Court of Cassation ruled on the powers of the extraordinary commissioner to require performance of pending contracts and on the treatment of the relevant claims of the suppliers

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Summary: Following a number of corporate governance failures, the Government has published a consultation paper aimed at cracking down on directors and employers behaving irresponsibly. “These reforms will give the regulatory authorities much stronger powers to come down hard on abuse and to make irresponsible directors bear the consequences of their actions.” Greg Clark. Responses are required by 11 June 2018.

Sale of Businesses in Distress