Throughout the global economic meltdown, the number of bankruptcy cases in China has risen considerably. To shed light on bankruptcy proceedings and stabilize the domestic economy, the Supreme People’s Court of the PRC issued Opinions on Several Issues Regarding the Proper Adjudication of Enterprise Bankruptcy Cases to Provide a Judicial Safeguard for Maintaining Order in the Market Economy on June 12, 2009. The Opinions direct courts at all levels to properly apply the Enterprise Bankruptcy Law (EBL) to assist insolvent enterprises, maintain market order, and stabilize the economy.
In Colombia, as in many other countries, closing down or dissolving a business is often more complicated than setting up a new one. Although there is a lot of information related to setting up a company in this country, there is not much guidance on the process of shutting one down. Because things do not always go as planned, it is important for investors to obtain information on corporate dissolution in Colombia.
Dissolution and Winding Up
Introduction
Short stories
Amendments to the Czech Insolvency Act 2016
(Czech Supreme Court Resolution No. 29 NSCR 31/2013 of30th April 2015)
The applicant for an appellate review turned to the Supreme Court with the question of whether a secured creditor is entitled to rent obtained during insolvency proceedings from the leasing of mortgaged real estate.
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:
German Insolvency Law
an overview.
A. Bill of the “Law on shielding credit institutions and financial groups against risks and planning their restructuring and winding-up”
German insolvency law is governed by a comprehensive Insolvency Code which entered into force on January 1, 1999 and has been amended from time to time, the last major reform being the Act for the Further Facilitation of the Restructuring of Companies (ESUG) which largely came into force as of 1 March 2012. There is only one primary uniform insolvency procedure which applies to both individuals and companies. In the following, we focus on companies.
The German Insolvency Code requires the management of German limited liability companies (GmbH), stock corporations (AG) and other entities without personal liability to file for the commencement of insolvency proceedings no later than three weeks after the entity has become illiquid (zahlungsunfähig) or overindebted (überschuldet).