La Sentencia de la Audiencia Provincial de La Coruña (Sección 4.ª) de 12 de marzo del 2018 (JUR 2018\130159) ha formulado algunas interesantes consideraciones en torno a los deberes y responsabilidad de los liquidadores de sociedades de capital.

Una nueva sentencia relativa al tratamiento concursal de garantías intragrupo. Y preocupante, porque parece suponer una vuelta atrás. La glosa de la Sentencia de la Audiencia Provincial de Barcelona (Sección 15.ª) de 2 de mayo del 2018 es como sigue. Como la constitución de la garantía real sobre el inmueble de la concursada fue simultánea a la concesión del préstamo, no es posible considerar gratuito el acto de disposición.

On 21 September 2018, the Supreme Court of Western Australia Court of Appeal delivered the eagerly anticipated decision in Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd v Forge Group Power Pty Ltd (In Liquidation) (Receivers and Managers Appointed)1. The appeal decision has come down on the side of what many considered to be the correct position for set off compared to the findings in the first Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd v Forge Group Power Pty Ltd (In Liquidation) (Receivers and Managers Appointed)2 case.

Se hipotecaron fincas en garantía de una refinanciación bancaria, la deudora es declarada en quiebra y se fija como fecha de retroacción una anterior a la de constitución de la hipoteca. El valor de tasación es aproximadamente de 1 700 000 euros; el banco instó la ejecución de las hipotecas. Durante la tramitación de la ejecución, el banco cedió su crédito hipotecario a un tercero por un precio de 767 127,82 euros. El tercero se subrogó en la posición del banco como ejecutante.

On 1 July 2018, the stay on ipso facto clauses introduced by the Treasury Laws Amendment (2017 Enterprise Incentives No. 2) Act 2017 (Act) came into effect and will apply to contracts entered into on or after that date. The Act, left a number of issues up in the air which were expected to be filled by regulations. Those regulations, and a declaration, were released in late June 2018, providing little time for contracting parties, and their advisors, to understand how the new laws would impact them before their commencement.

The Stay

On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy, an event considered by many to mark the beginning of the credit crisis of 2008–2009 and the unprecedented public policy responses that followed. Much has been written about the multiple contributing factors to the crisis, ranging from predatory lending to Federal Reserve interest rate policy.

In accordance with EU legislation, Member States have the power to limit the obligation of public guarantee institutions to pay employees’ claims in the event of their employer’s insolvency. The Court of Justice found to be compliant a national provision (Bulgarian law) that confines the protection given by said guarantee institutions to those employment relationships that have not ended within the three months prior to the opening of insolvency proceedings.

Todos los supuestos de extinción en que ésta es adoptada por voluntad del trabajador, pero derivada de una decisión unilateral de la empresa, han de tener el mismo tratamiento por parte de los Estados miembros. Así lo señala el Tribunal de de Justicia en un reciente pronunciamiento en el que resuelve una cuestión cuya trascendencia práctica desborda el supuesto planteado específicamente.

The UK government announced on 26 August 2018 that it will legislate to change aspects of the UK restructuring and insolvency systems. The reforms are a response to recent high-profile domestic corporate insolvencies and the various issues highlighted in those matters.

In a closely watched battle between FirstEnergy Solutions (“FirstEnergy”) and the Ohio Valley Energy Corporation (“OVEC”) that could have significant implications for the U.S. power sector, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Ohio asserted its primacy over the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) in deciding whether to allow FirstEnergy to repudiate certain FERC-regulated power purchase agreements (“PPAs”).