In the statement of claim filed in 2019, a debtor requested that its tax liability be extinguished as being time-barred on the grounds that the creditor had not carried out any enforcement actions since 2013. Moreover, the debtor company was deregistered in 2012.
The High Court of Cassation and Justice has ruled that the creditor cannot be held liable for having remained passive as long as its debtor had been deregistered and had therefore ceased to exist from a legal standpoint and to be a subject of law from whom one can claim the performance of an obligation.
Interest rates remain high, and for many markets and asset classes, prices have yet to fall. However, there’s at least one way real estate investors can buy a property at the right price in this cycle: Distressed sales.
“It’s a main mechanism for price correction,” said Matthew Scoville, a New York-based attorney and partner at Hunton Andrews Kurth who has represented both lenders and real estate developers. In many cases, distressed sales allow investors to acquire properties that would otherwise not be available. “Opportunities are the name of the game,” he said.
Good afternoon. Following are this week’s summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of August 28, 2023.
I hope everyone is enjoying the last long weekend of the summer.
Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation v. Canada (Attorney General) is a 125-page decision dealing with the claim of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation to submerged lands in Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. The claim was mostly unsuccessful.
On June 27, 2022, Three Arrows Capital (“3AC”), a crypto hedge fund, commenced liquidation proceedings in the British Virgin Islands and thereafter filed recognition proceedings in, among other countries, the United States and Singapore.
In the blog post titled ‘Vidarbha Aftermath’, the decision of the Supreme Court of India (“Supreme Court”) in Vidarbha Industries Power Limited v. Axis Bank Limited[1] (“Vidarbha”) was discussed and analysed.
Introduction
Volatile credit markets and guarded banks have made securing term loan C (TLC) debt attractive for borrowers who heavily rely on letters of credit to trade but either have low credit ratings or otherwise have difficulty accessing large enough revolving facilities to support the high amount of letters of credit needed.
Substitution first, standing later- a decision of Chief ICC Judge Briggs regarding supporting creditors and substituting as petitioner
Laurus Group Pty Ltd (admin apptd) v Mitsui & Co. (Australia) Ltd (No 2) [2023] VSC 412
INTRODUCTION AND PROCEEDINGS