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Switzerland: one year after the revision of the Swiss Restructuring Law and potentially viable restructuring approaches from a corporate law perspective

Alexander Vogel and Marc Baumberger, MLL Legal

This is an extract from the 2024 edition of GRR's Europe, Middle East and Africa Restructuring Review. The whole publication is available here.

Switzerland, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Global Restructuring Review
What doomsday prepper and opportunist Boards should both know about distress

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know that commodity prices are in the doldrums and that the outlook in the near term is not particularly positive. How should Boards prepare? Combine that with current inflation, interest rate and other cost of living pressures that continue to dominate public discourse and you can understand why many Boards and executives in the resources sector are having some sleepless nights. FY24 is also on track to have more insolvencies than FY23. By December FY24 insolvency activity was up 33.79% on the same time in FY23.

Australia, Corporate Finance/M&A, Insolvency & Restructuring, King & Wood Mallesons, Insolvency, Australian Securities Exchange
从“License-in”转型“License-out”——技术托管应对破产风险在实务中的应用

此前我们在《从“License-in”转型“License-out”——你的“自主知识产权”成色几何？》中对企业在开展License-out过程中涉及的知识产权侵权问题进行了梳理，并提出了实操建议供企业参考。此外，在技术许可交易中，还有一个此前常被中国企业在技术交易中忽略的问题，即技术许可方破产对技术许可的影响。随着中国技术类企业正逐步从技术引进（“License-in”）转向技术输出（“License-out”），中国企业也时常碰到境外被许可方提出的“破产保护”诉求。我们将在本文中对该问题进行探讨，并对国外常见的应对方案“技术托管”进行较为详细的介绍。

一、许可方破产对技术许可合同的影响

China, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, IT & Data Protection, King & Wood Mallesons, Bankruptcy, Enterprise Bankruptcy Law 2006 (China)
维好协议还好吗?

维好协议还好吗? 前 言 维好协议（KEEPWELL DEED）通常由在中国 1 注册成立的 母 公司签 署，为其 境 外 子 公司的融 资 进 行增信（CREDIT ENHANCEMENT）（见图表），最初常见于债券市场，近年 来也经常出现在贷款交易中。 提供维好承诺的母公司承诺维持其境外债务人子公司的财 务健康，以增强债权人对债务人的信心。 维 好协议 通常包含的承诺有：要求 维 好提 供方维持境外 维好协议与保证的主要区别 维好协议和保证有以下的重要分别 : 1. 仅就本文而言，“中国”或“中国内地”指中华人民共和国，不包括香港及澳门特别行政区和台湾。“境内”及“境外”有相应的意思。 债务人的净资产为正值、为其提供偿还债务的流动资金、 以 及保 持其对该等境 外债务人的管控 权和所有权等。其 中一些承诺或受制于取得相关中国政府部门的审批将资 金 汇出境 外的前 提 条 件，并且 维 好提 供 方必须尽最 大努 力获 得该 等审 批。除 签 署维 好协议 外，维 好 提 供 方通常 还 会 签 署股 权 购买承 诺（EQUITY INTEREST PURCHASE UNDERTAKINGS），即维好提供方承诺购买其境外债务人 子公司持有的若干股权，以便将资金（即购买对价）汇出境外。

China, Banking, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, King & Wood Mallesons, Bankruptcy
碳信用法律性质的国际前沿学术探讨

金杜合伙人苏萌律师应联合国国际贸易法委员会（UNCITRAL）邀请作为碳交易及金融领域专家，于2024年1月31日和2月1日参加在维也纳举行的联合国贸易法委员会（UNCITRAL）专家组与国际统一私法协会（UNIDROIT）工作组关于自愿碳信用（VCC）法律性质的联席会议[1]。在联席会议上，苏律师就工作报告内容参与讨论并发表观点，并就中国自愿碳市场发展状况对研究报告做出修订和补充。

China, Global, Derivatives, Environment & Climate Change, Insolvency & Restructuring, King & Wood Mallesons, Bankruptcy, International Swaps and Derivatives Association
Implications of the Rule in Gibbs on the Effectiveness of Schemes of Arrangement to Compromise US Law-governed Debt

Gregg Galardi, Matthew Czyzyk, Natalie Blanc and Emily Ma, Ropes & Gray

This is an extract from the 2024 edition of GRR's the Americas Restructuring Review. The whole publication is available here.

USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Global Restructuring Review, Debt, Scheme of arrangment, Gibbs
Recent Developments in DIP Financing for International and Domestic Debtors

Richard J Cooper, Lisa M Schweitzer and Richard C Minott, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

This is an extract from the 2024 edition of GRR's the Americas Restructuring Review. The whole publication is available here.

USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Global Restructuring Review, Private equity
Dominican Republic: Law 141-15’s Challenges and Application

Fabio Guzmán-Saladín and Pamela Benzán Arbaje, Guzmán Ariza

This is an extract from the 2024 edition of GRR's the Americas Restructuring Review. The whole publication is available here.

Dominican Republic, Compliance Management, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Global Restructuring Review
Bermuda: Insolvency in a Consistently Reliable Restructuring Jurisdiction

John Wasty, John Riihiluoma, Lalita Vaswani and James Batten, Appleby

This is an extract from the 2024 edition of GRR's the Americas Restructuring Review. The whole publication is available here.

In summary

Bermuda, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Global Restructuring Review, Supply chain, Liquidation, Insolvency, Judicial Insolvency Network
Capital Solutions Financings: Yield Driving Structure

Ken Baird, Katharina Crinson, Guilhem Bremond, Michael Broeders, Charlotte Ausema, Jan-Philip Wilde, Ana López, Silvia Angós, Mark Liscio and Samantha Braunstein, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

This is an extract from the 2024 edition of GRR's the Americas Restructuring Review. The whole publication is available here.

USA, Banking, Corporate Finance/M&A, Insolvency & Restructuring, Tax, Global Restructuring Review, Debt, Transfer pricing, Debtor in possession, Debt restructuring, Internal Revenue Service (USA)