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    Financing Your Way Out of a Pandemic: How Two Airport Companies Restructured Their Debt to Withstand an Economic Crisis
    2020-09-29

    In a pair of private exchange offers consummated in May 2020, airport operating companies owned by Corporacin Amrica Airports S.A. (NYSE: CAAP) in Argentina and Uruguay were able to restructure their existing debt securities in order to withstand the substantial revenue declines associated with the drop-off in air travel as a result of the coronavirus pandemic ("COVID-19").

    Filed under:
    USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Mayer Brown, Coronavirus
    Authors:
    Douglas A. Doetsch
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Mayer Brown
    Standalone Moratorium for Companies - Changes Introduced by the UK Corporate Insolvency & Governance Bill
    2020-05-29

    On 20 May 2020, the UK government announced the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill (the “Bill”), introducing a mixture of permanent and temporary measures, the latter being in response to the financial challenges companies are facing as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown. In the absence of extensive consultation with insolvency practitioners and industry experts, it remains to be seen how effective the measures will be in practice.

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Insolvency & Restructuring, Mayer Brown, Coronavirus
    Authors:
    Devi Shah , Sheena Frazer
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Mayer Brown
    US Bankruptcy Fee Flip: Legal Expenses for Unsecured Creditors; Considerations for Lenders and Administrative Agents
    2020-03-26

    With a slowdown in capital markets activity and sharply decreased economic activity, the pressures on borrowers (and therefore their lenders) are only going to increase in the near term.

    Filed under:
    USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Mayer Brown
    Authors:
    Youmi Kim
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Mayer Brown
    US Bankruptcy Fee Flip: Legal Expenses for Unsecured Creditors; Considerations for Lenders and Administrative Agents
    2019-08-13

    Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Chapter 11 filing earlier this year has highlighted an issue that is well settled but sometimes overlooked: Unsecured creditors generally have no right to receive immediate payment of their legal fees from a bankrupt borrower, regardless of any contractual rights they might otherwise have absent the bankruptcy.

    Filed under:
    USA, Banking, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Mayer Brown, Debtor, Secured creditor, Unsecured creditor
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Mayer Brown
    Court of Appeal refuses to grant indefinite stay on the enforcement of English law debts
    2019-01-24

    Introduction

    For more than a century, a creditor holding English law governed debt relied on the principle (known as the “rule in Gibbs ”) that a debt governed by English law cannot be discharged by a foreign insolvency proceeding, provided that the creditor does not submit to that proceeding.

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Banking, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Mayer Brown, UNCITRAL
    Authors:
    Ian McDonald , Alexandra Wood
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Mayer Brown
    US Supreme Court Addresses Safe Harbor Under Bankruptcy Code
    2018-02-27

    Merit Management Group, LP v. FTI Consulting, Inc., No. 16-784 (2018)

    Filed under:
    USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Mayer Brown, SCOTUS
    Authors:
    Thomas S. Kiriakos , Sean T. Scott , Tyler R. Ferguson
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Mayer Brown
    Bankruptcy Code—Insider Status
    2017-03-27

    U.S. Bank N.A. v. Village at Lakeridge, LLC, No. 15-1509

    Filed under:
    USA, Banking, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Mayer Brown
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Mayer Brown
    New Bankruptcy Court-Supervised Business Rehabilitation Scheme for SMEs Introduced
    2016-07-05

    Thailand's amended Bankruptcy Act (No. 9) B.E. 2559 (2016) (the "Amendment") was published in the Royal Thai Government Gazette on 24 May 2016 and came into force on 25 May 2016. The Amendment is specifically aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It introduces a new scheme which allows SMEs to enter into Court-supervised business rehabilitations.

    Filed under:
    Thailand, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Mayer Brown, Public company, Debtor, Debt, Limited partnership, United States bankruptcy court
    Location:
    Thailand
    Firm:
    Mayer Brown JSM
    Bankruptcy—powers of bankruptcy courts
    2015-05-26

    Wellness International Network, Ltd. v. Sharif, No. 13-935 (previously described in the July 1, 2014, Docket Report)

    Filed under:
    USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Mayer Brown, United States bankruptcy court
    Authors:
    Thomas S. Kiriakos , Brian Trust
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Mayer Brown
    Pension Protection Fund changes following Olympic Airlines case
    2014-07-18

    The regulatory amendments drawn up by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions following the outcome in Trustees of Olympic Airlines SA Pension &Life Assurance Scheme v Olympic Airlines SA have been drafted narrowly and may end up protecting no one other than the beneficiaries of the Olympic Airlines pension scheme.

    The issue

    Filed under:
    European Union, Greece, United Kingdom, Aviation, Employee Benefits & Pensions, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Mayer Brown, Pension Protection Fund, Pensions Act 2004 (UK), DWP
    Authors:
    Beth Brown
    Location:
    European Union, Greece, United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Mayer Brown

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