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    Anchorage Capital Master Offshore Ltd v Sparkes (No 3); Bank of Communications Co Ltd v Sparkes (No 2) [2021] NSWSC 1025
    2021-12-21

    In the case of Anchorage Capital Master Offshore Ltd v Sparkes (No 3); Bank of Communications Co Ltd v Sparkes (No 2) [2021] NSWSC 1025 (Anchorage v Sparkes), the Supreme Court of NSW considered the obligations of company officers to sophisticated commercial lending entities, and whether company officers could be personally liable for making misleading statements.

    Significance

    Filed under:
    Australia, New South Wales, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Clyde & Co LLP
    Authors:
    Jacques Jacobs
    Location:
    Australia
    Firm:
    Clyde & Co LLP
    King & Wood Mallesons' submission on corporate insolvency in Australia
    2022-12-01

    Overview of this submission

    Filed under:
    Australia, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, King & Wood Mallesons, Mediation, Coronavirus, Insolvency, Corporations Act 2001 (Australia)
    Location:
    Australia
    Firm:
    King & Wood Mallesons
    Anchorage Capital Master Offshore Ltd v Sparkes (No 3); Bank of Communications Co Ltd v Sparkes (No 2) [2021] NSWSC 1025
    2021-12-21

    In the case of Anchorage Capital Master Offshore Ltd v Sparkes (No 3); Bank of Communications Co Ltd v Sparkes (No 2) [2021] NSWSC 1025 (Anchorage v Sparkes), the Supreme Court of NSW considered the obligations of company officers to sophisticated commercial lending entities, and whether company officers could be personally liable for making misleading statements.

    Significance

    Filed under:
    Australia, New South Wales, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Clyde & Co LLP
    Authors:
    Jacques Jacobs
    Location:
    Australia
    Firm:
    Clyde & Co LLP
    King & Wood Mallesons' submission on corporate insolvency in Australia
    2022-12-01

    Overview of this submission

    Filed under:
    Australia, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, King & Wood Mallesons, Mediation, Coronavirus, Insolvency, Corporations Act 2001 (Australia)
    Location:
    Australia
    Firm:
    King & Wood Mallesons
    Anchorage Capital Master Offshore Ltd v Sparkes (No 3); Bank of Communications Co Ltd v Sparkes (No 2) [2021] NSWSC 1025
    2021-12-21

    In the case of Anchorage Capital Master Offshore Ltd v Sparkes (No 3); Bank of Communications Co Ltd v Sparkes (No 2) [2021] NSWSC 1025 (Anchorage v Sparkes), the Supreme Court of NSW considered the obligations of company officers to sophisticated commercial lending entities, and whether company officers could be personally liable for making misleading statements.

    Significance

    Filed under:
    Australia, New South Wales, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Clyde & Co LLP
    Authors:
    Jacques Jacobs
    Location:
    Australia
    Firm:
    Clyde & Co LLP
    King & Wood Mallesons' submission on corporate insolvency in Australia
    2022-12-01

    Overview of this submission

    Filed under:
    Australia, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, King & Wood Mallesons, Mediation, Coronavirus, Insolvency, Corporations Act 2001 (Australia)
    Location:
    Australia
    Firm:
    King & Wood Mallesons
    ‘Holding’ DOCA used to maintain rights to enforce security of payment claims pre-liquidation
    2023-03-17

    This week’s TGIF concerns Kennedy Civil Contracting Pty Ltd (Admins Appt) v Richard Crookes Construction Pty Ltd [2023] NSWSC 99, in which the New South Wales Supreme Court determined that an insolvent company’s creditors could properly make a DOCA to maintain the right under security of payment legislation to recover amounts that would have been lost on entry into liquidation.

    Key takeaways

    Filed under:
    Australia, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Deed of company arrangement, Corporations Act 2001 (Australia), New South Wales Supreme Court
    Authors:
    Michelle Dean
    Location:
    Australia
    Firm:
    Corrs Chambers Westgarth
    Anchorage Capital Master Offshore Ltd v Sparkes (No 3); Bank of Communications Co Ltd v Sparkes (No 2) [2021] NSWSC 1025
    2021-12-21

    In the case of Anchorage Capital Master Offshore Ltd v Sparkes (No 3); Bank of Communications Co Ltd v Sparkes (No 2) [2021] NSWSC 1025 (Anchorage v Sparkes), the Supreme Court of NSW considered the obligations of company officers to sophisticated commercial lending entities, and whether company officers could be personally liable for making misleading statements.

    Significance

    Filed under:
    Australia, New South Wales, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Clyde & Co LLP
    Authors:
    Jacques Jacobs
    Location:
    Australia
    Firm:
    Clyde & Co LLP
    King & Wood Mallesons' submission on corporate insolvency in Australia
    2022-12-01

    Overview of this submission

    Filed under:
    Australia, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, King & Wood Mallesons, Mediation, Coronavirus, Insolvency, Corporations Act 2001 (Australia)
    Location:
    Australia
    Firm:
    King & Wood Mallesons
    Insolvency and restructuring newsletter - March 2023
    2023-03-16

    Our last newsletter commented on high inflation, dwindling business confidence and international supply chain issues. Those factors continue to influence the economic outlook, with some businesses unable to survive the strengthening head winds impacting the economy. The consumer price index increased 7.2 percent in the 12 months to December 2022, remaining stubbornly high despite significant movements in the official cash rate to 4.5%, up significantly from the 0.25% it was sitting at in October 2021. ANZ's economic forecast warns that a "policy induced recession is looming".

    Filed under:
    Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, White Collar Crime, Buddle Findlay, Supply chain, Insolvency, Barclays, HSBC, Victoria Supreme Court, UK Supreme Court, Supreme Court of Canada
    Location:
    Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Buddle Findlay

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