在最新的 Re USUM Investment Group Ltd[2026] HKCFI 1320 一案中,香港公司法庭就普通法下对内地重整程序的承认(recognition)与协助(assistance),处理了若干“新颖而重要的问题(Novel and Important Questions)”,包括:香港法庭是否有权承认经境外法院(本案为内地法院)批准的企业破产重整;如有,具体的协助范围包括哪些?
本案中,香港公司法庭最终批准了由重庆市第五中级人民法院委任的管理人(Administrators)在香港提出的申请。该判决为日后内地与香港跨境重整的处理方式提供了更清晰的、权威性的分析路径,并进一步强化香港作为普通法跨境破产/重整枢纽司法管辖区的定位。
事实背景
In Re USUM Investment Group Ltd[2026] HKCFI 1320, the Hong Kong Companies Court delivered a landmark judgment concerned with “novel and important questions as to whether the court has power to recognize a restructuring approved by a foreign court and, if so, the extent of such assistance”.
在 Re Lu Zhonglou[2025] HKCFI 6165 一案中,林泽明聆案官以债权人在申请准许呈请破产令及申请替代送达命令时,未有履行“充分及坦诚披露”的义务为由,撤销破产令并驳回破产呈请。
重要事实与背景
吕先生自约 2010 年起一直是呈请人赌场的长期客户。2021 年 12 月,他签署一份信贷协议,获批可观的博彩信贷,其后新加坡法院就相关欠款作出判决。该判决其后在香港根据外地判决登记制度注册并部分清偿,仍有约 7,080 万港元未偿还。呈请人其后送达法定要求书,并以单方面方式取得准许呈请破产令及替代送达命令;吕先生于 2025 年 4 月被宣告破产,其后以送达存在缺陷及重大不披露为由,申请撤销破产令。
In a recent decision, Deputy High Court Judge Gary CC Lam dismissed an application to strike out an unfair preference claim brought by the liquidators of RZ3262019 Limited. The judgment provides a significant analysis of issue estoppel, particularly on the novel question of how an issue is characterised when a foreign court has applied a different, higher standard of proof.
Background
2025年8月11日,香港高等法院法官陈静芬对华南城控股有限公司(以下简称“华南城”)下达清盘令。根据路透社报道,华南城是自2021年中国房地产行业陷入债务危机以来,首家在香港被清盘的国有背景房地产开发商。
背景
华南城及其子公司集团(以下简称“集团公司”)是在内地8个主要城市以品牌名称“华南城”运营大型综合物流与交易中心的房地产开发商。
此前,香港法院已两次延期华南城清盘申请的聆讯,然而,香港法院拒绝了本案聆讯的第三次延期请求,并基于以下理由,勒令华南城即时清盘:
On 11 August 2025, the Honourable Madam Justice Linda Chan made a winding up order against China South City Holdings Ltd (the “Company”). According to Reuters, this is the first state-backed property developer to be wound up in Hong Kong since the Chinese property sector tipped into debt crisis in 2021.
Background
The Company and its group of subsidiaries (the “Group”) is a real estate developer and operates a large scale integrated logistics and trade centre in 8 major cities in the Mainland under the brand name “華南城”.
In the recent high-profile decision of Re: Li Yonghong[2025] HKCFI 3307, the Honourable Madam Justice Linda Chan made a bankruptcy order against Mr. Li Yonghong — a businessman best known for his prior ownership of AC Milan. The judgment offers important takeaways for bankruptcy and insolvency practitioners on, inter alia, the resolution of inaccuracies or defects in statutory demands and petitions.
Background
Notwithstanding that the requisite statutory majority was obtained in the relevant creditors’ scheme meeting, the Hong Kong Companies Court refused to sanction a scheme of arrangement propounded by a company that professed to be insolvent in a recent judgment [2024] HKCFI 2216.
简介
最近在Re Guy Kwok-Hung Lam [2023] HKCFA 9一案中,香港终审法院澄清,如果受争议的呈请债务所涉及的协议载有专属司法管辖权条款(「专属条款」),法院应如何处理清盘及破产呈请。
案情
上诉人于2017年与CP Global Inc(「该公司」)及答辩人订立了一份信贷及担保协议(「信贷协议」)。据此,上诉人向该公司提供定期贷款,答辩人就该公司结欠上诉人的所有款项提供个人担保。信贷协议载有专属条款,就该协议所产生或与之有关的所有法律程序赋予纽约法院专属司法管辖权。
于2020年,上诉人认为发生了信贷协议所指的违约事件,故要求答辩人支付信贷协议项下的未偿还本金及利息。答辩人未有按上诉人的要求还款,因此上诉人在香港针对答辩人展开破产法律程序。另一方面,答辩人在纽约提起诉讼,请求法院求宣告并无发生信贷协议下的违约事件。
答辩人反对在香港提出破产呈请的主要理由之一,是专属条款规定上诉人须首先在纽约法院就双方争议进行诉讼,然后才可在香港展开破产程序。
Introduction
In the latest judgment handed down by the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal in Re Guy Kwok-Hung Lam [2023] HKCFA 9, the Court of Final Appeal clarified the approach to winding up and bankruptcy petitions where the agreement from which the disputed petition debt arose contains an exclusive jurisdiction clause (“EJC”).
Facts