Riforma della crisi d’impresa e dell’insolvenza: la Camera approva il DDL delega. La parola passa al Senato
Orsola Galasso
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Lo scorso 1 febbraio la Camera dei Deputati ha approvato, a larga maggioranza, il disegno di legge n. 3671 bis recante “Delega al Governo per la riforma organica delle discipline della crisi d’impresa e dell’insolvenza” (DDL), elaborato sullo schema predisposto dalla commissione istituita nel febbraio 2015 dal Ministro della Giustizia Orlando e nota come Commissione Rordorf.
According to decision no. 17441, of 31 August 2016, of the First Division of the Supreme Civil Court, the liability of directors without management power cannot originate from a general failure to supervise – that would be identified in the facts as a strict liability – but must be attributed to the breach of the duty to act in an informed way, on the basis of both information to be released by executive directors and information that non-executive directors can gather on their own initiative.
I cd. NPL (non performing loans, letteralmente mutui non performanti) sono, sostanzialmente, crediti per i quali la riscossione è incerta, sia dal punto di vista del rispetto della scadenza originaria che per quanto riguarda l’ammontare del possibile recupero; essi sono anche detti, nel linguaggio bancario, crediti deteriorati.
The Court of Cassation (decision No. 4915 of 27 February 2017) lowered the threshold allowing the Bankruptcy Court to review the feasibility of the concordato preventivo proposal.
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The so called “Banks Decree” Decree (Law Decree no. 59/2016, hereinafter the “Decree”), published on the Official Gazette and converted into Law no. 199/2016, has recently entered into force.
The main purpose of the Decree is to grant a partial reimbursement to investors of few local banks that were resolved in November 2015. However, the Decree has also introduced additional innovations which represent a further significant step in the Government’s effort of streamlining the credit recovery activities and implementing a more creditor-friendly environment.
Italy's latest law reforms continue with creditor-friendly amendments to support the local banking sector while providing confidence to investors.
Decree Law No. 59/2016 (the so-called "Banks Decree," hereinafter the Decree) was published in the Official Gazette (the Decree was later amended and converted into law by Law No. 119/2016) and has recently entered into force.
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The draft reform act presented to the government in December 2015 by the Rordorf Commission (a ministerial commission established to develop and submit draft legislation designed to reform, review and reorganise the rules governing insolvency procedures in Italy) aims to:
A recent Supreme Court judgment addressed the issue of maritime liens and the remuneration of shipping companies' court-appointed managers by adopting a strict interpretation of the maritime liens rules. According to such interpretation, judicial managers should not be considered a company's preferred creditors for their remuneration.
The Court of Trento (3 May 2016) ruled that the judicial liquidator of the concordato is entitled to bring aclaim against directors and statutory auditors, although the claim is not considered by the liquidationplan and has not been approved by the shareholders of the company
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The Court of Cassation (13 June 2016, No. 12120) confirmed that a limited liability company can bedeclared bankrupt, if it is found that the company is a partner of an insolvent de facto partnership
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