Here’s a vindication for the Small Business Administration’s discrimination against bankruptcy debtors:

Re So Tsz Man[2021] HKCFI 3732

This case concerns the self-petitions presented by four debtors for their own bankruptcy (the “Four Petitions”). The Four Petitions (i.e. Re So  Tsz  Man(HCB  7033/2020), Re  Lee  Wing(HCB 7299/2020), Re Tam Wai Yiu(HCB 7569/2020) and Re Qiu Wenjun(HCB 3930/2021) shared a substantial similar fact pattern:

Re Hsin Chong Construction Co Ltd (Provisional Liquidators: Application for Directions)

[2021] 5 HKLRD 212, [2021] HKCA 1581

Chan Seung Bun v Wong King Fai Joe and Another[2021] HKCFI 3572

The Company was co-founded by the petitioner Mr. Chan Seung Bun (the “Petitioner”) and the late 1^st Respondent (“R1”), now represented by the joint executrices of the estate (the “Executrices”) in 2013. It was not in dispute that the Company was a quasi-partnership established based on mutual trust and confidence between the Petitioner and R1. The Company had been profitable since its establishment.

一、はじめに

新型コロナウイルス感染症の長期間にわたる流行や経 済構造の転換・調整の影響を受けて、中国の経済にも停 滞感が見え始め、経済成長のスピードが鈍化しています。 日本企業や日系企業（以下「日系企業等」といいます。） が中国で取引を行う中で、取引相手による支払遅延、不 良債権の増加等の発生リスクに注意すべき局面も出てき ています。

取引相手に一時的な資金繰りの問題が発生しただけで あれば、債権者はまだ債権の回収を期待できます。しか し、もし取引相手の経営状況が引き続き悪化し、破産や 清算のリスクが存在するといった状況に直面した場合、 債権者は、債権をできる限り回収するにはどうすればよ いかを考える必要があり、更には、もし取引相手が破産 手続に入ったときには同手続の中で、自らの利益を最大 限守るための方法を、事前に考える必要があります。

今月のニュースレターでは、破産・清算のリスクがあ る取引相手を目の前にして、債権者が債権回収の可能性 をどのように高めるかという問題について、企業破産法 の規定にも触れつつ、検討を行います。

二、破産・清算リスクがある債務者による債務弁済行為 が取り消される可能性

Re Chan John Loong Fai[2021] HKCA 1834

Excellent Asia (BVI) Ltd v Mas Media Group Ltd[2021] HKCFI 3605

In March 2020, the Petitioner presented a petition to wind up the Respondent company, which is incorporated in the Cayman Islands, on the ground of insolvency.

Failing to state in the Petition how the three core requirements are satisfied, the Petitioner subsequently took out a summons seeking to introduce a re-amendment to assert matters that are capable of satisfying the three core requirements.

Nuoxi Capital Ltd (In Liquidation in the British Virgin Islands) v Peking UniversityFounder Group Co Ltd[2021] HKCFI 3817

Re Wang Huimin[2021] HKCFI 3472

The Bankrupt, Madam Wang, is a Chinese citizen and holds a PRC resident identity card. She has been residing in Shanghai since she was born. The Petitioner is Madam Wang’s younger brother.

On March 23, 2022, Massachusetts-based Footprint Power Salem Harbor Development LP and certain affiliates, which operate a 674 MW natural gas-fired combined-cycle electric power plant in Salem, Massachusetts, filed a petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code in the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (Case No. 22-10239).