Nuo Ji, Lingqi Wang, Jessica Li and Sylvia Zhang, Fangda Partners

This is an extract from the 2022 edition of GRR's the Asia-Pacific Restructuring Review. The whole publication is available here.

In summary

The Federal Court has recently confirmed that liquidators are able to assign their rights to examine people and to obtain the production of documents.

Liquidators may now find that there is greater interest from litigation funders to purchase potential claims that have not been fully investigated.

Overview

A Supreme Court in Australia has dismissed an application by a UK company’s moratorium restructuring practitioners for recognition of a UK moratorium and ordered that the company be wound up under Australian law.

The decision provides insights into the interaction between cross-border insolvencies and the winding up in Australia of foreign companies under Australian law.

Introduction

In the matter of Hydrodec Group Plc [2021] NSWSC 755, delivered 24 June 2021, the New South Wales Supreme Court:

It is possible for a trustee in bankruptcy to make a claim to property held by a bankrupt on trust. For example, by lodging a caveat over a home that is held on trust.

A trustee in bankruptcy may be able to make a claim, relying on the bankrupt’s right of indemnity as trustee of the trust. This is because the bankrupt’s right of indemnity, as trustee, is itself property that vests in the trustee in bankruptcy under the Bankruptcy Act 1966.

Explaining a trustee’s right of indemnity

Karen McMaster, Ben Andrews and James Cameron, Milbank LLP

This is an extract from the 2020 edition of GRR's the Europe, Middle East and Africa Restructuring Review. The whole publication is available here.

In summary

Cristóbal Eyzaguirre B, Rodrigo Ochagavía R-T and Santiago Bravo S, Claro & Cia

This is an extract from the 2021 edition of GRR's The Americas Restructuring Review. The whole publication is available here.

In summary

DJ Miller, Thornton Grout Finnigan

This is an extract from the 2021 edition of GRR's The Americas Restructuring Review. The whole publication is available here.

In summary

This chapter highlights the flexible nature of Canada’s restructuring regime, where creative solutions to novel and complex issues are welcomed by the judiciary.

Discussion points

Luiz Fernando Valente de Paiva, Giuliano Colombo, Andre Marques, Carolina Kiyomi Iwamoto and Ana Beatriz Araujo Ribeiro do Valle, Pinheiro Neto Advogados

This is an extract from the 2021 edition of GRR's The Americas Restructuring Review. The whole publication is available here.

In summary

Adrián Thery, Borja García-Alamán, Juan Verdugo and Juan María Jiménez, Garrigues

This is an extract from the 2020 edition of GRR's the Europe, Middle East and Africa Restructuring Review. The whole publication is available here.

In summary

Ken Baird, Mark Liscio, Samantha Braunstein, Katharina Crinson and Kevin Connolly, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

This is an extract from the 2021 edition of GRR's The Americas Restructuring Review. The whole publication is available here.

In summary