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    Directors did not breach fiduciary duty in relation to insolvent company's participation in failed tax avoidance scheme
    2022-06-01

    In Stephen John Hunt (Liquidator of Marylebone Warwick Balfour Management Ltd) v Richard Balfour-Lynn and others [2022] EWHC 784 (Ch), the High Court decided that the directors of a company which went into liquidation after participating in an ineffective tax avoidance scheme did not breach their fiduciary duties and payments made pursuant to the scheme were not transactions defrauding creditors.

    Background

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Tax, RPC, HM Revenue and Customs (UK)
    Authors:
    Rebekka Sandwell
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    RPC
    Directors did not breach fiduciary duty in relation to insolvent company's participation in failed tax avoidance scheme
    2022-06-01

    In Stephen John Hunt (Liquidator of Marylebone Warwick Balfour Management Ltd) v Richard Balfour-Lynn and others [2022] EWHC 784 (Ch), the High Court decided that the directors of a company which went into liquidation after participating in an ineffective tax avoidance scheme did not breach their fiduciary duties and payments made pursuant to the scheme were not transactions defrauding creditors.

    Background

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Tax, RPC, HM Revenue and Customs (UK)
    Authors:
    Rebekka Sandwell
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    RPC
    Directors did not breach fiduciary duty in relation to insolvent company's participation in failed tax avoidance scheme
    2022-06-01

    In Stephen John Hunt (Liquidator of Marylebone Warwick Balfour Management Ltd) v Richard Balfour-Lynn and others [2022] EWHC 784 (Ch), the High Court decided that the directors of a company which went into liquidation after participating in an ineffective tax avoidance scheme did not breach their fiduciary duties and payments made pursuant to the scheme were not transactions defrauding creditors.

    Background

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Tax, RPC, HM Revenue and Customs (UK)
    Authors:
    Rebekka Sandwell
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    RPC
    UK Court of Appeal Indicates that Victims of Fraud Can Target Third Parties
    2023-03-17

    Tradition Financial Services Ltd v Bilta (UK) Ltd and others [2023] EWCA Civ 112

    Key Takeaways:

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Tax, White Collar Crime, Dechert LLP, Insolvency, HM Revenue and Customs (UK)
    Authors:
    Adam Silver , Ricci John Potts
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Dechert LLP
    Directors did not breach fiduciary duty in relation to insolvent company's participation in failed tax avoidance scheme
    2022-06-01

    In Stephen John Hunt (Liquidator of Marylebone Warwick Balfour Management Ltd) v Richard Balfour-Lynn and others [2022] EWHC 784 (Ch), the High Court decided that the directors of a company which went into liquidation after participating in an ineffective tax avoidance scheme did not breach their fiduciary duties and payments made pursuant to the scheme were not transactions defrauding creditors.

    Background

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Tax, RPC, HM Revenue and Customs (UK)
    Authors:
    Rebekka Sandwell
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    RPC
    (UK) EBT Claims- Have Beneficiaries been Unjustly Enriched?
    2023-03-15

    Can a liquidator run an unjust enrichment claim to seek to recover PAYE and NIC liabilities from a company’s directors arising from the company’s use of a “disguised remuneration” employee benefit trust (“EBT”) scheme? Based on the findings of ICC Judge Barber in the case of Re Ethos Solutions Ltd, the answer is “no”.

    EBTs: Background

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Employee Benefits & Pensions, Insolvency & Restructuring, Tax, Squire Patton Boggs, HM Revenue and Customs (UK)
    Authors:
    Jon Chesman
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Squire Patton Boggs
    Directors did not breach fiduciary duty in relation to insolvent company's participation in failed tax avoidance scheme
    2022-06-01

    In Stephen John Hunt (Liquidator of Marylebone Warwick Balfour Management Ltd) v Richard Balfour-Lynn and others [2022] EWHC 784 (Ch), the High Court decided that the directors of a company which went into liquidation after participating in an ineffective tax avoidance scheme did not breach their fiduciary duties and payments made pursuant to the scheme were not transactions defrauding creditors.

    Background

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Tax, RPC, HM Revenue and Customs (UK)
    Authors:
    Rebekka Sandwell
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    RPC
    Silicon Valley Bank: tax issues for UK clients
    2023-03-15

    News of HSBC's acquisition of Silicon Valley Bank UK (SVB UK) has brought huge relief to the UK tech community and wider economy – quite possibly the optimal result in the circumstances following the Bank of England's announcement of a likely insolvency procedure on Friday 10 March.

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Banking, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Tax, Taylor Wessing, Insolvency, HM Revenue and Customs (UK), HSBC
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Taylor Wessing
    Directors did not breach fiduciary duty in relation to insolvent company's participation in failed tax avoidance scheme
    2022-06-01

    In Stephen John Hunt (Liquidator of Marylebone Warwick Balfour Management Ltd) v Richard Balfour-Lynn and others [2022] EWHC 784 (Ch), the High Court decided that the directors of a company which went into liquidation after participating in an ineffective tax avoidance scheme did not breach their fiduciary duties and payments made pursuant to the scheme were not transactions defrauding creditors.

    Background

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Tax, RPC, HM Revenue and Customs (UK)
    Authors:
    Rebekka Sandwell
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    RPC
    Directors did not breach fiduciary duty in relation to insolvent company's participation in failed tax avoidance scheme
    2022-06-01

    In Stephen John Hunt (Liquidator of Marylebone Warwick Balfour Management Ltd) v Richard Balfour-Lynn and others [2022] EWHC 784 (Ch), the High Court decided that the directors of a company which went into liquidation after participating in an ineffective tax avoidance scheme did not breach their fiduciary duties and payments made pursuant to the scheme were not transactions defrauding creditors.

    Background

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Tax, RPC, HM Revenue and Customs (UK)
    Authors:
    Rebekka Sandwell
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    RPC

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