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When a debtor, natural or legal person, is constituted in serious circumstances of insolvency in the face of a plurality of creditors, the legislator has foreseen as a mechanism to solve said problem three alternatives of action, depending on the qualities of the insolvent person: the insolvency creditors, bankruptcy and suspension of payments.

The liquidation of companies in Egypt is governed by the Egyptian Companies Law. No. 159/1981[1], the law governs all the aspects of the companies’ liquidation including the reasons of liquidation, status of the company under liquidation, the appointment of the liquidator, responsibilities of the liquidator and revocation of the liquidator.

The company may be liquidated for the following reasons:

The Law has been issued on the 19th of February and came into force on the 22nd of March which revokes the bankruptcy rules set out in Chapter 5 under the Commercial Code No.17 of the year 1999 (the “Commercial Code”).the newly introduced provisions have been adopted from the US Bankruptcy Law, Chapter 11.

Egypt has finally passed The Security Over Movables Law in November 2015 which introduced a regime similar to fixed and floating charges as applicable under the UK law. The Executive Regulation (ER) of the Law was passed in December 2016. Taking into consideration novelty of the legislation, it has yet to be implemented on the ground and results to be evaluated. However, the main provisions of the Law can be discussed and outlined.

For decades, restructuring and insolvency matters in the Dominican Republic involving merchants and companies in non-regulated industries have been carried out on a “de facto” basis, due to the obsolescence of the existing legal framework and institutions. Fortunately, that is not the case anymore.

Fabio J Guzmán-Saladín and Pamela Benzán, Guzmán Ariza

This is an extract from the 2020 edition of the Americas Restructuring Review, published by Global Restructuring Review. The whole publication is available here.

In summary

The exponential spread of CODIV-19 is seriously affecting the financial standing of businesses and individuals at a global scale, many of which have already expressed the likelihood of a potential insolvency in view of the significant reduction of their operations. In view of this situation, both corporations and individual businesspersons alike are evaluating their options and next steps to be taken both in the face of their possible insolvency as well as that of their debtors.

A December 2012 ruling has effectively called into question the validity of engine leases in Denmark. Ruling in relation to the bankrupt regional airline Cimber Sterling, a judge in the District Court of Sønderborg ordered the trustees of the estate to return seven of the nine engines in question to the engine lessors. However, the two remaining engines, both GE CF34s valued at around USD 2 million each, were to be retained by the trustees as on the date of bankruptcy they had been affixed to the Bombardier CRJ200 aircraft for over three months.