1. Enactment of the Insolvency Law
On 20 December 2020, Turkey enacted Presidential Decision No. 3433, which extends the period for applying and making payments vis-à-vis new restructuring regime on receivables contained in the Law on Restructuring of Certain Receivables and Amending Certain Laws No 7256 (“Restructuring Law”), which came into force 17 November last year.
Unless the Article 50 period is extended yet again, the UK is currently set to leave the EU on 31 October 2019 at 11pm GMT. However, if the Withdrawal Agreement is ratified, the impact of Brexit will, for most purposes, be postponed due to the transition period. This transition period is currently set to end on 31 December 2020. The Withdrawal Agreement provides that during transition, the UK would continue to be treated as if it were still an EU member for the purposes of a range of directly application EU legislation which is core to the smooth running of financial transactions.
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On December 27, 2020, the Consolidated Appropriation Act ("CAA") was signed into law. The nearly 5,600-page bill is reportedly the longest bill ever passed by Congress. In addition to funding the federal government in 2021 and providing COVID-related relief to individuals and businesses, the new law amends the Bankruptcy Code in at least nine respects. Most of the amendments sunset in either one or two years. One of the amendments will become effective only if the Small Business Administration signs off on it.
A brief description of the amendments follows.
In a recent decision, Twiford Enters. v. Rolling Hills Bank & Trust (In re Twiford Enters.), 2020 Bankr. LEXIS 2964, 2020 WL 6075691 (10th Cir. BAP 2020), the Tenth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel affirmed the lower court’s decision awarding postpetition interest pursuant to section 506(b). The disputed issue was whether a reference in the variable rate promissory notes to an internal rate index maintained by the bank was sufficiently clear and specific to support a claim for postpetition interest. The court held that it was.
第１ はじめに
弊事務所の「危機管理・コンプライアンスセミナー」にて「事 業会社における取引先債権保全・回収の実務の基礎」の テーマで報告をしました。
（https://www.ohebashi.com/jp/seminar/year/2020/20201 210seminar.php【申込受付は12/10より】）
以下では、その概要を紹介させていただきます。
第２ 想定する場面
本報告では、（1）取引先がまだ事業を継続していて債務整 理・倒産手続を開始しておらず、また、（2）商品の品質等の 取引内容に不満はないにもかかわらず、（3）資金繰りが厳し い等の理由で、（4）商品の代金を支払ってもらえない（あるい は支払ってもらえない可能性がある）場面を想定しています。
第３ 取引先が倒産したら何が起こるのか
В России на протяжении довольно долгого времени действуют нормы, позволяющие кредиторам в случае банкротства компании привлечь к ответственности ее бывших собственников и руководителей (так называемая субсидиарная ответственность при банкротстве). При этом размер ответственности определяется исходя из размера недополученных кредиторами по итогам банкротства средств.
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Fulvio Italiani and Carlos Omaña, D'Empaire
This is an extract from the 2021 edition of GRR's The Americas Restructuring Review. The whole publication is available here.
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