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    German legislator facilitates confiscation orders and asset recovery
    2017-06-30

    After having implemented stricter anti-bribery and corruption regulations in late 2015 and mid2016, new criminal law provisions regarding confiscation orders and asset recovery will enter into force on 1 July 2017. The present legislation was considered to be insufficient. Further, the law implements European provisions into national law. The law provides new rules for compensation of damaged parties and lower prerequisites for confiscations.

    Filed under:
    Germany, Insolvency & Restructuring, White Collar Crime, DLA Piper
    Authors:
    Daniel Zapf , Florian Gero Kirstein
    Location:
    Germany
    Firm:
    DLA Piper
    Reform der Insolvenzanfechtung (endlich) beschlossen - Mehr Rechtssicherheit im Umgang mit kriselnden Geschäftspartnern
    2017-07-04

    Auf der Zielgeraden haben Bundestag und Bundesrat die Reform der Insolvenzanfechtung verabschiedet. Durch das Gesetz, welches mit Verkündung im Bundesgesetzblatt am 04. April 2017 in Kraft getreten ist, werden die Risiken der Insolvenz für die Geschäftspartner kriselnder Unternehmen verringert. Die von der Rechtsprechung geforderten strengen Anforderungen, die Zahlungsfähigkeit der Geschäftspartner zu überprüfen, werden damit entschärft.

    Filed under:
    Germany, Insolvency & Restructuring, Avocado Rechtsanwälte, Bundestag
    Authors:
    Michael Pauli
    Location:
    Germany
    Firm:
    Avocado Rechtsanwälte
    Gerichtsgebühren im Insolvenzverfahren: Standortnachteil München?
    2017-07-04

    Der Wert der Insolvenzmasse ist Berechnungsgrundlage sowohl für die Vergütung des Insolvenzverwalters als auch die Gerichtsgebühr im Insolvenzverfahren. Obwohl die Regelungen hierzu gleich lauten, legt sie das OLG München unterschiedlich aus. Die Folge im aktuellen Fall ist eine knapp sechsfach höhere Bemessungsgrundlage zugunsten der Gerichtskasse. Die Mehrheit der Oberlandesgerichte teilt diese Sichtweise nicht. Damit begründet die Rechtsprechung des OLG München einen deutlichen Standortnachteil für Betriebsfortführungen im Insolvenzverfahren im Bezirk des Oberlandesgerichts München.

    Filed under:
    Germany, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Hogan Lovells
    Authors:
    Christine Borries
    Location:
    Germany
    Firm:
    Hogan Lovells
    Germany: Claw-back reform improves the position of suppliers and service providers in German insolvency proceedings
    2017-07-05

    1. Background of the claw-back reform

    German insolvency law allows claw-back for actions made by the debtor during a period of up to 10 years prior to insolvency proceedings. Until the new rules entered into effect in April 2017, this long look-back period also applied to so-called coverage transactions, meaning payments to which the creditor was entitled under contract or law. The insolvency administrator only needed to prove that when making the payment the debtor willfully disadvantaged its other creditors, and the recipient of the payment was aware of this.

    Filed under:
    Germany, Insolvency & Restructuring, Baker McKenzie
    Authors:
    Dr. Holger Ellers
    Location:
    Germany
    Firm:
    Baker McKenzie
    Germany introduces legislation to facilitate corporate group insolvencies (Konzerninsolvenzrecht)
    2017-07-07

    Germany's major legal reform aiming to facilitate group insolvencies comes into effect on April 21, 2018 (full German text). The new law allows insolvency proceedings over companies within a corporate group to be concentrated at a single German insolvency court and/or to be administered by one insolvency administrator.

    Filed under:
    Germany, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, DLA Piper, Debtor
    Authors:
    Florian Bruder M.Jur. , Tom H. Braegelmann
    Location:
    Germany
    Firm:
    DLA Piper
    International Legislative Update
    2017-04-13

    New EU Regulation on Cross-Border Preservation of Accounts Potentially Useful Tool to Secure Assets in EU Member States

    Filed under:
    Germany, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Jones Day, Debtor, Financial regulation, Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Germany)
    Authors:
    Mark G. Douglas
    Location:
    Germany
    Firm:
    Jones Day
    Deutsches Insolvenzrecht - Übersicht zum Insolvenzanfechtungsrecht German Insolvency Law - Overview of Insolvency Challenge Rights
    2017-04-20

    Um die Insolvenzmasse zu erhöhen, ermöglicht das Insolvenzanfechtungsrecht dem Insolvenzverwalter, unter bestimmten Voraussetzungen auf Werte zuzugreifen, derer sich der Schuldner vor der Stellung des Antrags auf Eröffnung des Insolvenzverfahrens zu Lasten einzelner oder aller Gläubiger entäußert hat. The insolvency challenge rights give the insolvency administrator, under certain prerequisites, access to assets which the debtor disposed of to the detriment of the creditors prior to the filing for insolvency, thus increasing the insolvency estate.

    Filed under:
    Germany, Insolvency & Restructuring, Mayer Brown, Discrimination
    Location:
    Germany
    Firm:
    Mayer Brown
    German Insolvency Reform - Introduction of Group Insolvency Proceedings (Konzerninsolvenzverfahren)
    2017-04-24

    I. Executive Summary

    Filed under:
    Germany, Insolvency & Restructuring, Paul Hastings LLP
    Authors:
    Dr. Christian Mock
    Location:
    Germany
    Firm:
    Paul Hastings LLP
    Neues Insolvenzanfechtungsrecht in Kraft getreten
    2017-04-26

    Der Bundestag hat Ende Februar 2017 eine Reform des Anfechtungsrechts verabschiedet. Die Reform bringt substantielle Änderungen des Insolvenzanfechtungsrechts, von denen in erster Linie Lieferanten und Dienstleister profitieren dürften, die sich Ansprüchen eines Insolvenzverwalters in der Insolvenz ihres Kunden ausgesetzt sehen. Die neuen Regeln sind am 5. April 2017 in Kraft getreten und gelten für alle Insolvenzverfahren, die ab diesem Datum eröffnet werden.

    1. Hintergrund der Anfechtungsreform

    Filed under:
    Germany, Insolvency & Restructuring, Baker McKenzie, Accounts receivable
    Location:
    Germany
    Firm:
    Baker McKenzie
    Taxation of Restructuring Profits in Germany - Tax Administration and Legislator Swiftly React to a Recent Detrimental Decision of the German Federal Fiscal Court
    2017-04-27

    A recent decision by the German Federal Fiscal Court (BFH) has caused significant concerns in the restructuring community because it will severely complicate future restructurings in Germany or even make them impossible overall. In its decision dated 28 November 2016 (GrS 1/15, published on 8 February 2017) the court held that the so- called restructuring decree (circular on taxation of restructuring profits / Sanierungserlass) dated 27 March 2003 (IV A 6 S 2140 8/03, BStBl. I 2003, 240, amended by circular letter dated 22 December 2009 (IV C 9 S 4140/07/10001-01, BStBl.

    Filed under:
    Germany, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Tax, A&O Shearman, Bundestag
    Location:
    Germany
    Firm:
    A&O Shearman

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