Last Friday, the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in Al Jaber v Mitchell [2021] EWCA Civ 1190, a keenly awaited decision which considers with the application of the doctrine of immunity from suit to statements given by a former director during an examination under section 236 Insolvency Act 1986.

COVID-19 M&A Lessons

It has been held that the non-payment of debt (even significant and undisputed debt) is not, of itself, sufficient to establish insolvency. There must be more.

The Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) in Canada v. Canada North Group Inc., 2021 SCC 30 [Canada North] recently held that courts in proceedings under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (the “CCAA”) have the authority to rank super-priority charges ahead of the Crown’s deemed trust claim for unremitted source deductions.

The sale of portfolios of non-performing loans (NPLs) in Bulgaria is once again a hot topic. Lenders expect the percentage of work-out exposures to increase as the government's various stimulus packages come to an end. However, following a multitude of successful portfolio NPL sales in the years prior to COVID-19, more and more international investors are expressing interest in the local market.

What does this mean for NPL portfolio sales in Bulgaria?

There are several factors that will play a major role in the future of NPL portfolio sales in Bulgaria:

This analysis was first published on Lexis®PSL on 09/07/2021 and can be found here (subscription required).

Trillions of dollars of securities are issued on the strength of bankruptcy remoteness and special purpose entities (“SPVs”) intended to be bankruptcy remote. These transactions generally involve hundreds of millions of dollars and investors’ expectations that the SPVs will not be dragged into a potential bankruptcy filing of their non-SPV affiliates.

Contested conservatorships, feuds over NFL fee payouts, Twitter battles making their way into court documents, and allegations of hundreds of thousands of dollars in lottery ticket earnings being siphoned to a “Real Housewives” s

2021年5月11日，最高人民法院發佈了《關於開展認可和協助香港特別行政區破產程式試點工作的意見》（以下簡稱《試點意見》）。

《試點意見》指定上海市、福建省廈門市、廣東省深圳市人民法院開展認可和協助香港破產程式的試點工作。

《試點意見》規定了認可和協助的程式範圍。根據《試點意見》第二條規定，香港破產程式是指依據香港特別行政區《公司（清盤及雜項條文）條例》《公司條例》進行的集體清償程式，也就是該破產程式針對的是公司而不包括個人，破產程式的性質是“集體清償程式”。

《試點意見》明確了申請主體和受理法院。《試點意見》第五條規定認可和協助香港破產程式的申請主體為香港管理人。依據《試點意見》審理的跨境破產協助案件，由試點地區的中級人民法院管轄。向兩個以上有管轄權的人民法院提出申請的，由最先立案的人民法院管轄。