Payment Orders were originally introduced in the CPC as a fast track route for creditors holding a financial instrument, such as a letter of credit or cheque, to obtain judgment against their debtor for what is a simple and indisputable debt. Payment Orders were rarely issued by the onshore UAE courts. In 2018, Cabinet Resolution No 57 of 2018 (the “2018 Cabinet Resolution”) significantly expanded the scope of application of Payment Orders by extending them to all admitted debts rather than simply those arising out of financial instruments only.

On 29 September 2021 the High Court dismissed a challenge to Caffè Nero’s 2020 CVA brought by one of its landlords, Ronald Young. Young asserted that the CVA was unfairly prejudicial and subject to material irregularities (thereby engaging both grounds of challenge under s.6 of the Insolvency Act 1986), and that the CVA nominees and company directors had breached their duties by failing to adjourn or postpone voting on the CVA upon receipt of a late-in-the-day offer for the Caffè Nero group.

On October 10, 2021, Judge Colleen McMahon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a temporary restraining order, delaying implementation of Purdue Pharma’s plan of reorganization, which was confirmed by Bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain on September 17th, pending argument on the U.S.

Where a shareholder has redeemed his shareholding following a failed investment without objection some months prior to the initiation of a voluntary liquidation, the Court will not permit him to use the statutory deferral provisions relating to voluntary liquidations for an abusive or improper purpose. This includes using such proceedings as leverage to exert undue pressure in proposed claims against the company or directors.

The case of John Doyle Construction Ltd v Erith Contractors Ltd [2021] EWCA Civ 1452 (07 October 2021) saw the Court of Appeal re-explore the conflict between the adjudication process and insolvency following the Supreme Court decision ofBresco Electrical Services Ltd v Michael J Lonsdale Ltd.

In a landmark bankruptcy case judgment issued on 10 October 2021 the Dubai Court of First Instance has held the directors and managers of an insolvent Dubai-based PJSC to be personally liable to pay the outstanding debts of the previously listed company (now in liquidation) pursuant to the UAE Bankruptcy Law. This decision represents a very significant milestone in the UAE insolvency landscape since the enactment of the Bankruptcy Law in late 2016, being the first known instance of a case where such personal liability has been ordered.

8月号（民事再生）、9月号（破産）と法的手続の話が続きまし たが、3回目の今月号は、近時の私的整理（協議会手続・事業 再生ADR）の動向を紹介したいと思います。

１ 協議会の再生手続の利用状況

１ 倒産手続の債権者申立て

債務超過や支払不能等の要件がある場合、債権者が主体と なって、債務者につき倒産・再生手続（破産、民事再生、会社 更生）の申立てをすることができます（債権者申立て一般につ いては、村上寛「倒産手続の債権者申立て」（2019年9月号）に て概説しておりますので、そちらをご参照ください。）。

債権者が債務者の破産申立てを行う事例はそこまで一般的 ではありませんが、それでも、債務の弁済に非協力的である一 方、財産隠匿や偏頗行為、放漫経営等による財産の減少が 疑われる事例は枚挙に暇がないところです。

そこで今回は、債務者が、自らに対する債権の弁済に非協力 的である一方で、既に、金品の持ち出し、預金の解約、不動産 の第三者への廉価売却、役員報酬の増額と回収等の財産隠 匿行為、あるいは全債権を支払うことのできない状態にあるの に、特定の債権者に対してだけ偏った弁済をする等の偏頗行 為が進行してしまい、弁済の対象となるべき財産（責任財産） の会社からの流出が起こってしまっているときに、債権者として 採りうる手段の一つとして、破産法上の保全管理命令を紹介 したいと思います。

２ 保全管理命令について

The following company law cases have been reported in CCH Pinpoint:

Directors’ duties: director breaches multiple duties by causing companies to provide security for unrelated parties

In the matter of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (the “CCAA”) of Bloom Lake, the Superior Court of Québec rendered a judgment regarding the expansion of the powers of the monitor in a context where a creditor refused to produce documentation requested by the debtors.