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    FASt action required by qualifying pension plans
    2016-08-08

    Earlier this year it was announced that the UK’s Financial Assistance Scheme (“FAS”) would close to applications from 1 September 2016.

    This does not affect pension plans that are currently progressing through the notification and qualification process or pension plans that have already qualified for assistance. However, any qualifying pension plans that have not yet started the process need to move quickly as they now have less than a month to make a notification to the FAS.

    Filed under:
    European Union, United Kingdom, Employee Benefits & Pensions, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Squire Patton Boggs, Brexit, Liquidation, Annual report, Pension Protection Fund, Court of Justice of the European Union, Court of Appeal of England & Wales
    Authors:
    Jane Briggs
    Location:
    European Union, United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Squire Patton Boggs
    Opérations de dissolution sans liquidation : le tribunal administratif de Montreuil apporte des précisions
    2018-04-26

    TA Montreuil 18-1-2018 n°1701374

    Le tribunal administratif de Montreuil apporte des précisions dans le cadre des opérations de dissolution sans liquidation.

    D’une part, il étend la solution rendue en matière de fusions aux transmissions universelles de patrimoine en jugeant que les charges et les dettes nées chez l’absorbée avant la fusion sont prise en compte pour le calcul de la rémunération des apports et doivent donc être considérées comme un élément du prix d’acquisition et non comme une charge se rapportant à la gestion de l’absorbante.

    Filed under:
    France, Insolvency & Restructuring, Squire Patton Boggs, Liquidation
    Location:
    France
    Firm:
    Squire Patton Boggs
    Parliament to consider preferential creditor status for consumers
    2016-08-03

    Consumers could be set to jump up the insolvency hierarchy if Parliament backs the latest Law Commission recommendations.

    The Law Commission’s report, Consumer Prepayments on Retailer Insolvency, recommends, among other things, that consumers who prepay for goods or services over £250 in the six months prior to a formal insolvency process should be paid out as preferential creditors instead of unsecured creditors.

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Insolvency & Restructuring, Squire Patton Boggs, Credit card, Retail, Consumer protection, Unsecured debt, Debt, Liquidation, Liquidator (law), Consumer Rights Act 2015 (UK), Law Commission (England and Wales)
    Authors:
    Russell Hill , Matt Ford
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Squire Patton Boggs
    Voidable preference - Court considers relevant date of connection
    2018-03-06

    In an article that first appeared on LexisNexis on 26 February 2018, Jon Chesman examines a High Court decision which found the applicant liquidator of a company had made out her case that a transfer of stock from the company to the first respondent, a former director of the company, amounted to a preference and a transaction at an undervalue, so relief ought to be granted under the Insolvency Act 1986 (IA 1986).

    Breese (liquidator of Flexi Containers Ltd) v Hiley and others [2018] EWHC 12 (Ch), [2018] All ER (D) 77 (Jan)

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Squire Patton Boggs, Liquidation
    Authors:
    Jon Chesman
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Squire Patton Boggs
    Insolvency Service Fees Overhaul - Good News or Bad?
    2016-07-26

    A new fee structure in respect of insolvency fees payable to the Insolvency Service came into force on 21 July 2016, pursuant to The Insolvency Proceedings (Fees) Order 2016 (SI 2016/692) (the “Order”), which revokes The Insolvency Proceedings (Fees) Order 2004 (SI 2004/593) and all ten subsequent amendment orders.

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Squire Patton Boggs, Bankruptcy, Unsecured debt, Liquidation, Insolvency Act 1986 (UK), High Court of Justice
    Authors:
    Gemma Whale , Devinder Singh
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Squire Patton Boggs
    The ongoing deconstruction of Carillion
    2018-01-31

    Media attention has waned from the initial deluge of front-page headlines regarding the Carillion collapse. It would therefore be easy to be ignorant of the ongoing disintegration of the web of Carillion companies beneath Carillion Plc, the ultimate parent company of the Carillion group, which (according to its latest accounts) holds interests in over 350 subsidiaries or joint ventures all over the world.

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Insolvency & Restructuring, Squire Patton Boggs, Liquidation, Carillion
    Authors:
    James Moore
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Squire Patton Boggs
    English Court decides who can be a foreign representatives under Cross-Border Insolvency Regulations 2006
    2016-07-20

    The English Court has recently considered who can be recognised as “foreign representatives” under the Cross-Border Insolvency Regulations 2006 (CBIR) in the case of Re 19 Entertainment Limited, about a US company in Chapter 11. The Re 19 Entertainment judgment appears to be the first English case where directors of a company in Chapter 11 proceedings were recognised as “foreign representatives.”

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Squire Patton Boggs, Bankruptcy, Liquidation, Moratorium (law), Debtor in possession
    Authors:
    Helen Kavanagh
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Squire Patton Boggs
    The deconstruction of Carillion
    2018-01-15

    On 15 January 2018, Carillion, the UK’s second-largest builder and one of the Government’s largest contractors, was placed into compulsory liquidation and the Official Receiver was appointed as liquidator, with Michael John Andrew Jervis, David James Kelly, David Christian Chubb, Peter Dickens, David Matthew Hammond and Russell Downs of PwC being appointed as special managers to assist in the wind down of the business and realisation of its assets.

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Construction, Insolvency & Restructuring, Projects & Procurement, Squire Patton Boggs, Liquidation, Carillion
    Authors:
    Cathryn Williams
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Squire Patton Boggs
    BVI liquidators battle lawyers over legal costs in London court
    2017-08-15

    The recent case ofCrumper v Candey Ltd [2017] EWCH 1511 (Ch) delivered an updated analysis of the operation of section 245 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (“s245”). Although the insolvency proceedings (and much of the litigation before and after the insolvency commenced) originated in the British Virgin Islands, they were recognised in England and Wales under the Cross Border Insolvency Regulations 2006.

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Squire Patton Boggs, Liquidation, Insolvency Act 1986 (UK)
    Authors:
    Devinder Singh
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Squire Patton Boggs
    Mass Layoffs When Section 363 Sales Fail and Cases Convert: Third Circuit Adopts Probability Standard for WARN Act Liability
    2017-08-14

    On August 4, 2017, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling in Varela v. AE Liquidation, Inc. (In re AE Liquidation, Inc.), 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 14359 (3d Cir.

    Filed under:
    USA, Employment & Labor, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Squire Patton Boggs, Debtor, Liquidation, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act 1988 (USA), United States bankruptcy court, Third Circuit
    Authors:
    Elliot M. Smith
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Squire Patton Boggs

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