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    Tribune: Lessons Learned and Relearned
    2022-03-08

    This is how Tribune ends: not with a bang, but a whimper. The 12-year litigation saga, rooted in the spectacular failure of the media and sports conglomerate’s 2007 leveraged buyout, reached an end in late February with a curt “cert. denied” from the US Supreme Court.

    Morgan Lewis was one of the firms that captained the defense for Tribune’s former shareholders. This post notes some lessons that we learned—and relearned.

    Lesson One: Section 546(e)’s ‘New’ Safe Harbor

    Filed under:
    USA, Capital Markets, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Supreme Court of the United States
    Authors:
    Melissa Y. Boey
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
    免責と担保不動産競売(最高裁R3.6.21決定を題材に)
    2022-03-08

    1 はじめに

    法人が破産した場合、破産手続の終結に伴い、基本的に は法人格が消滅することになります。その結果、債務の負担 主体が消滅するため、債権も全て消滅することになります。こ れに対し、自然人(個人)が破産した場合、当然のことです が、破産手続が終結してもその自然人が消滅することはあり ません(そんなことになれば大変です。)。そうした場合に、配 当を得られなかった破産債権はどうなるのでしょうか。皆様の 中には、債務が「チャラ」になるというお話を聞かれたことがあ る方もおられるかもしれません。それはある意味的を射ていま すが、法的には少々不正確です。

    Filed under:
    Japan, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners
    Location:
    Japan
    Firm:
    Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners
    True Sale? Or Not True Sale? That is the Question
    2022-03-08

    Within the past 18 months, two bankruptcy courts have used the same factors, but reached opposite conclusions, about the characterization of two merchant cash advance funding transactions as either a “true sale” or not a “true sale” – and instead, a disguised financing. In doing so, the courts’ decisions confirm the importance of appropriate structuring to achieve true sale treatment.

    Filed under:
    USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
    Authors:
    Jason W. Harbour , Jennifer E. Wuebker
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
    Insolvency & restructuring newsletter - First edition 2022
    2022-03-08

    We open the year with several events of major significance. The unlawful invasion of Ukraine by Russia is justifiably dominating the news cycle, with harrowing images of the impact of Russia's indiscriminate military bombardment on Ukrainian cities and towns. The invasion will have a substantial impact on the global economy. The conflict is also highly likely to have implications for our own domestic markets despite the geographical distance between us. Local sharemarkets have been volatile and oil prices have spiked in the last week.

    Filed under:
    New Zealand, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Buddle Findlay, Supply chain, Coronavirus
    Location:
    New Zealand
    Firm:
    Buddle Findlay
    個人破産における免責判断
    2022-03-08

    1 破産免責の手続

    個人破産の手続においては、破産手続の開始の申立てが ある場合、免責許可の申立てもするのが通常である。免責制 度は、破産手続による配当を受けることができなかった債務 について責任を免れさせることによって破産者の経済的再生 を図る制度であり、積極的に不誠実な行為をした者でない限 り、破産者の経済的再生を付与するために免責を与えるべき との考え方が有力であり、破産管財人は、このような考え方に 基づき免責調査を行い、免責不許可事由が存在する場合、 裁判所に対してその旨の意見書を提出しており、東京地方 裁判所民事第20部(破産再生部)においても、免責不許可 事由に該当する事実があっても、その不誠実さの程度が著し い事例を除き、免責許可をしているのが通常である(破産・民 事再生の実務・破産編(第4版)595頁)。

    Filed under:
    Japan, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners
    Location:
    Japan
    Firm:
    Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners
    High Court orders a director and his accomplice to account to company for secret profits
    2022-03-09

    The results of KPMG's Fraud Barometer showed a significant increase in fraud cases in 2021, confirming the general upward trend in this area. My colleagues recently prepared an update on the case of Hewlett Packard v Lynch, described as one of the most expensive and high profile fraud trials in recent history.

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Brodies LLP, Liquidator (law), KPMG
    Authors:
    Craig Watt , Andrew Scott
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Brodies LLP
    UK Court’s first reported decision on the new moratorium procedure
    2022-03-09

    The English High Court has rejected a creditor's application to bring a moratorium to an end following the monitors' decision not to terminate the moratorium.

    Background

    A monitor must terminate the moratorium if they 'think' that the company is unable to pay any pre-moratorium debts for which the company does not have a 'payment holiday'. Surprisingly, debts arising under an agreement involving 'financial services' are excluded from the payment holiday.

    Decision

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Taylor Wessing
    Authors:
    Louise Jennings
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Taylor Wessing
    U.S. Supreme Court Declines Review Ending Shareholder Fraudulent Transfer Litigation in Tribune
    2022-03-07

    After more than a decade, litigation resulting from the failed leveraged buyout (LBO) of media giant Tribune Company has finally drawn to a close. On Feb. 22, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the latest decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in In re Tribune Co. Fraudulent Conveyance Litig., 10 F.4th 147 (2d Cir.

    Filed under:
    USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, McGuireWoods LLP, Shareholder, Safe harbor (law), Fiduciary, Malpractice, Clawback/avoidance/preferences/fraudulent transfers, US Congress, Supreme Court of the United States, Second Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals
    Authors:
    Shawn R. Fox , Sarah B. Boehm , Jacob Matthew Weiss
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    McGuireWoods LLP
    房地产项目破产重整程序中,如何保障固定收益重整投资人的利益?
    2022-03-07

    根据测算,截止2022年年初,国内烂尾项目规模已经超过2万亿,随着2021年大型房地产公司接连“暴雷”,势必会产生更多的烂尾或接近烂尾的项目。对于商业逻辑自洽的单体项目破产重组,借助破产清算或重整程序分兵突围势必成为地方政府主导重整的最优路径。但是鉴于目前的房地产市场行情以及烂尾项目续建的特点,大部分重整投资人,尤其是财务投资类型的重整投资人更倾向于采用固定收益的方式进行项目重整,既能实现维护稳定的社会效果,又能最大限度地保证投资安全。因此,如何在当前法律架构下保障固定收益重整投资人的利益是本文中讨论的主要问题。

    一 重整投资人的收益模式对比

    重整投资人参与烂尾项目的收益模式大致可以分为固定收益模式、风险收益模式和固定加风险收益模式。不同的收益模式下重整投资人有不同的投资逻辑,也有不同的退出模式。我们从投入、收益、风险以及安全性角度对固定收益模式与风险收益模式进行了比较。

    (一)固定收益模式

    固定收益模式的特点是重整投资人投入重整资金,约定固定收益率,在最终财产变现所得中优先收回投资本金及收益,项目剩余资产全部用于债权清偿。

    Filed under:
    China, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Real Estate, Zhong Lun Law Firm
    Authors:
    Wei Zhiqiang
    Location:
    China
    Firm:
    Zhong Lun Law Firm
    HK Court to go ahead with Keepwell claim
    2022-03-07

    On 17 December 2021, the High Court in Nuoxi Capital v Peking University Founder Group Company Limited [2021] HKCFI 3817 held that the claims under a Keepwell Deed, notwithstanding ongoing insolvency proceedings in the Mainland, should be determined in Hong Kong in accordance with its exclusive jurisdiction clause.

    Filed under:
    Hong Kong, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Hauzen
    Authors:
    Kelly Ho
    Location:
    Hong Kong
    Firm:
    Hauzen

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