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    Liquidation judiciaire : l’effet rétroactif de l’inscription hypothécaire définitive
    2016-09-19

    Admission de l’inscription définitive d’une hypothèque judiciaire provisoire malgré la liquidation judiciaire

    Cass. Com, 3 mai 2016, n°14-21.556

    Aux termes d’un arrêt de principe, la Cour de cassation entérine et confirme la possibilité pour le créancier disposant d’une hypothèque judiciaire provisoire, inscrite avant le jugement d’ouverture, de l’inscrire définitivement après la liquidation judiciaire du débiteur.

    Filed under:
    France, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Real Estate, Squire Patton Boggs, Liquidation
    Authors:
    Laure Perrin
    Location:
    France
    Firm:
    Squire Patton Boggs
    The Ever-Shrinking Chapter 11 Case
    2018-08-20

    Most observers of the world of chapter 11 bankruptcy cases – and particularly those professionals who practice in that arena – will not be surprised to learn that their individual experiences and anecdotal reports suggesting that the duration of Chapter 11 cases has continued to shrink have been validated by Fitch Ratings, one of the “big three” credit rating agencies. Fitch’s August 7, 2018 report, entitled “Shrinking Length of U.S. Bankruptcies,” provides many useful statistics and analyses of recent and historical trends in chapter 11 cases.

    Filed under:
    USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Squire Patton Boggs, Liquidation
    Authors:
    Norman N. Kinel
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Squire Patton Boggs
    Snooze and you lose in Slovakia
    2016-08-10

    A recent decision of the Slovak Courts suggest that if main proceedings have been opened in one member state and the debtor has assets in Slovakia, the insolvency practitioner in the main proceedings must act quickly and sell those assets before secondary proceedings are opened in Slovakia, otherwise he runs the risk of losing the assets to the secondary estate. Legal title to the assets must have passed to the buyer before the secondary proceedings are opened; it is not enough just for contracts to have been exchanged.

    Filed under:
    France, Slovakia, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Squire Patton Boggs, Debtor, Interest, Liquidation, Liquidator (law), Article 8 ECHR, Trustee
    Authors:
    Silvia Belovicova , Alexandre Le Ninivin
    Location:
    France, Slovakia
    Firm:
    Squire Patton Boggs
    Employees - why they may be out of a job and out of pocket on corporate failures
    2018-05-21

    It is no great surprise that following the collapse of Carillion and with other retail businesses teetering on the edge, insolvency and corporate recovery is back in the news.

    Some of the biggest casualties of entities like Carillion are the employees. Luckily, in the Carillion failure many jobs have been saved, but there is still a residual cost to employees who have to submit claims to the National Insurance Fund and the liquidator to recover payments for unpaid wages, holiday and sick pay.

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Employment & Labor, Insolvency & Restructuring, Squire Patton Boggs, Liquidation, Carillion
    Authors:
    Rachael Markham
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Squire Patton Boggs
    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

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