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Aquapoint LP v Fan [2025] UKPC 56
Introduction
What section 380A means for administrators
We recently achieved a significant milestone by obtaining permission from the Royal Court of Guernsey for Joint Administrators to make a distribution to unsecured creditors during an administration. This marks the first order granted under section 380A of the Companies (Guernsey) Law, 2008.
This article first appeared in Volume 22, Issue 6 of International Corporate Rescue.
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- The application process and evidence required by the JFSC for a migration
- Consideration of a migration application by the JFSC
- Effects of granting a certificate of continuance and a migration overseas
The object of this guide is to provide clients of Walkers with information on the process involving the migration of companies to and from Jersey.
Migration to Jersey
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There were 64 filings under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada) in 2023, which is an approximately 64% year-over-year increase. While this surge is interesting in and of itself, we believe that the volume of 2023 CCAA filings is also notable for the rich data it makes available to insolvency professionals. We used this opportunity to better understand how the CCAA was being employed by reviewing each filling.
In a recent case involving Mantle Materials Group, Ltd. (2023 ABKB 488, “Mantle“), the intersection of environmental obligations and insolvency law in Canada has again come into sharp focus.