The Appellate Division of the Singapore High Court has in Goh Jin Hian v Inter-Pacific Petroleum Pte Ltd (in liquidation) [2025] SGHC(A) 7 allowed Dr Goh’s appeal against a US$146 million award, holding that breach of the duty of care, skill and diligence (the "Care Duty") does not automatically establish loss.
前 言
在全球化经济纵深发展与企业出海战略持续推进的背景下，开拓海外市场、融入全球产业链及供应链是中国内地企业未来重点发展的战略选择。然而，跨境商业活动在带来机遇的同时亦伴随着跨法域的风险与挑战，跨境破产无论在理论还是实务都具有相当的复杂性。
本文将以主要利益中心原则（Centre of Main Interests，以下简称“COMI”）为出发点，结合实务案例浅析COMI原则在部分海外国家的适用及中国内地债权人的应对策略，为出海企业提供跨境破产风险管理的参考依据。
一、跨境破产视域下的管辖权
“跨境破产”概念及与之相关的规范均正式确立于联合国国际贸易法委员会1997年颁布的《跨境破产示范法》（UNCITRAL Model Laws on Cross-Border Insolvency，以下简称“《示范法》”）。《示范法》最为核心的内容便是确立了COMI在跨境破产管辖权认定上的重要作用，虽然COMI原则在近年受到来自“承诺规则”与“事后选择规则”等新兴理论的挑战[1]，但作为近30年来在全球63个法域普遍适用的基本准则[2]，掌握COMI在不同国家或地区的司法实践适用在当下仍具有重要的现实意义。
A. Introduction
The Singapore’s Court of Appeal’s recent decision in Natixis, Singapore Branch v Seshadri Rajagopalan and others and other appeals [2025] SGCA 29 serves as an important decision for the intersection between insolvency and admiralty laws. The decision addresses a dispute concerning admiralty statutory liens, examining whether the judicial managers of an insolvent ship owning company acted wrongfully by procuring the offshore arrest and judicial sale of a vessel, despite the appellants having issued admiralty in rem writs against it in Singapore.
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The intersection of the arbitration and insolvency regimes has once again come under judicial scrutiny. In Aryan (SEA) Private Limited v Pure Group (Singapore) Pte Ltd [2025] SGHC 99 (Aryan), the General Division of the High Court of Singapore (GD) considered whether an application to restrain a winding-up petition raised a dispute that prima facie fell within the scope of an arbitration agreement, or whether the application amounted to an abuse of process.
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