U.K. Turnaround and Restructuring Update February 2025 While we may have witnessed a degree of muted activity in the final quarter of 2024, this year has opened with renewed vigour, presenting strong signs of a busy 2025 for our U.K. Turnaround and Restructuring team. It was perhaps the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget statement in October that brought 2025’s potential challenges for many businesses into much sharper focus.

Judge Parker of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Texas recently issued an order in the case of Hilltop SPV, LLC, granting debtor Hilltop SPV LLC’s (“Hilltop”) motion to reject a Gas Gathering Agreement (“GGA”) with counter-party Monarch Midstream, LLC (“Monarch”).[1] This decision allows Hilltop to reject the GGA while allowing Monarch to retain the covenants that run with the land post-rejection.

Financial difficulties can creep up on a business when least expected. Whether it's due to market shifts, unexpected costs, or operational setbacks, many businesses find themselves at a crossroads: How do we turn this around before it's too late? The key is acting early and having the right plan in place.

When a company goes into liquidation, creditors often wonder whether they will recover their debts. One available option to achieve this is funding legal action to help the liquidator recover assets.

Singapore's insolvency legislation allows creditors who fund liquidators' recovery actions to have priority over other creditors in the distribution of recovered assets. This improves the viability of commencing insolvency proceedings as an asset recovery tool.

In recent years, it has become increasingly common for companies in North Macedonia to choose arbitration as the method for resolving disputes in cooperation agreements, instead of judicial proceedings, which usually take considerably longer. However, the Macedonian legislature has not fully regulated all the legal aspects related to arbitration procedures.

One key issue that remains unaddressed is the impact of an open bankruptcy proceeding against the debtor registered in North Macedonia on an ongoing arbitration process where the debtor is a respondent.

Am 4. Februar 2025 wurde der neueste Entwurf des geänderten Konkursgesetzes („Entwurf“) vom Obersten Volksgerichtshof („SPC“) zur öffentlichen Stellungnahme veröffentlicht. Der Entwurf soll das geltende Konkursgesetz Nr. 51/2014/QH13 vom 19. Juni 2014 („Konkursgesetz 2014“) ersetzen und führt mehrere wesentliche Änderungen ein, die sich auf die Konkursverfahren auswirken können, die auf der Umsetzung des Konkursgesetzes 2014 ab seinem Inkrafttreten bis heute basieren. Die erste Frist für öffentliche Stellungnahmen läuft bis zum 25.

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私的整理への多数決原理の導入（私的整理の多数決化）は、過去  10  年余りの間に何度か検討されてきたが、現在、経済産業省の主導により、改めて議論が進められている。背景としては、私的整理において金融債権者全員の同意が必要であることが、事業再生の円滑化に向けた課題として指摘されてきたことがある。 2022  年  6  月、自動車部品供給会社であるマレリホールディングス㈱の事業再生  ADR  手続（私的整理の一種）が、一部の外資系金融機関の反対により不成立となった（最終的には、民事再生手続における簡易再生という特則を利用）のは、そのような課題が表面化した例の一つである。

2. 事業再構築小委員会報告書について

Con sentenza n. 348 dell’8 gennaio 2025, la Suprema Corte di Cassazione con un’interessante decisione ha delineato il concetto di “continuità aziendale” e i criteri di accertamento che devono essere impiegati, in relazione al giudizio di omologa di una proposta di Concordato Preventivo “misto”.

Canada’s Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (BIA) is designed to give “honest, but unfortunate debtors” a “fresh start” by automatically staying litigation and dealing with the bankrupt’s debts and liabilities in an orderly fashion. But what if the bankrupt was dishonest? Should they be entitled to have litigation stayed and their debts discharged? The BIA contains tools to address this.

Le 4 février 2025, le dernier projet de loi amendée sur la faillite (« le Projet de loi ») a été publié par la Cour populaire suprême (« CPS ») pour consultation publique. Le Projet de loi est censé remplacer la loi actuelle sur la faillite n°51/2014/QH13 du 19 juin 2024 (« Loi sur la faillite de 2014 ») et introduit plusieurs changements significatifs qui pourraient impacter les procédures de faillite, se basant sur la mise en œuvre de la Loi sur la faillite de 2014 depuis son entrée en vigueur.