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This article delves into some key considerations for suppliers when dealing with customers where there may be a risk of non-payment or insolvency circumstances and how a supplier can minimise the risk to their cash flow and business.
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In Mann v. LSQ Funding Group, L.C., 71 F.4th 640 (7th Cir. 2023), reh'g denied, 2023 WL 4684702 (7th Cir. July 21, 2023), the U.S.
Following several years of declining recuperações judiciais filings in Brazil, nearly 600 companies requested court protection in the first six months of 2023, a 52% increase over the same period in 2022.
Total filings remain below the number seen between 2016-2018, when Brazil went through one of its worst economic crises. However, there is a clear separation from the lower number of filings during the pandemic years of 2020-2022, when there was an increase in government support and creditors were more patient.
Swee Siang Boey and Suchitra Kumar, RPC Premier Law
This is an extract from the 2024 edition of GRR's The Asia-Pacific Restructuring Review. The whole publication is available here.
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I was asked to consider doing a post on Artificial Intelligence (AI). There’s so much already out there, so I decided to ask ChatGPT to “write me an interesting post targeted at a professional audience about the impact of AI to the insolvency and restructuring sector.”
This is what it came back with:
Title: "Harnessing the Power of AI in the Insolvency and Restructuring Sector"
Hajime Ueno, Masaru Shibahara and Kotaro Fuji, Nishimura & Asahi
This is an extract from the 2024 edition of GRR's The Asia-Pacific Restructuring Review. The whole publication is available here.
This is an Insight article, written by a selected partner as part of GRR's co-published content. Read more on Insight
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.
August, 2023 For Private Circulation - Educational & Informational Purpose Only A BRIEFING ON LEGAL MATTERS OF CURRENT INTEREST KEY HIGHLIGHTS * Calcutta High Court: Courts cannot re-appreciate the evidence or substitute its view with that of the arbitrator while considering the issue of enforcement of a foreign award.
Only a year ago, Slovakia transposed EU Directive 2019/2023 on preventive restructuring frameworks with an intention to reform insolvency proceedings and make them more effective.