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    Annual Case Review 2021
    2022-02-22

    ANNUAL CASE REVIEW 2021 serlecourt RAISING THE BAR IN CHANCERY & COMMERCIAL “Stacked with highly experienced silks and juniors, Serle Court has long been one of the leading sets when it comes to civil fraud disputes” Legal 500 serlecourt 02 Welcome to Serle Court’s Annual Review of 2021. In the second year of the pandemic, barristers at Serle Court have continued to appear, often remotely, in courts at all levels around the world, in cases across our wide field of commercial chancery law.

    Filed under:
    Africa, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, European Union, Global, Middle East, United Kingdom, Banking, Company & Commercial, Competition & Antitrust, Energy & Natural Resources, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Private Client & Offshore Services, Public, Real Estate, Tax, Telecoms, Trademarks, Wills & Probate, Serle Court, Brexit, Private equity, Articles of association, Coronavirus, Anti-bribery and corruption, Barclays, HM Revenue and Customs (UK), EUIPO, Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (UK)
    Location:
    Africa, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, European Union, Global, Middle East, United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Serle Court
    Trilegal Quarterly Roundup Oct-Dec 2021
    2022-01-28

    We are happy to present the second issue of our e-magazine – Trilegal Quarterly Roundup.

    Filed under:
    India, Arbitration & ADR, Banking, Company & Commercial, Corporate Finance/M&A, Employment & Labor, Energy & Natural Resources, Insolvency & Restructuring, IT & Data Protection, Litigation, Tax, Telecoms, White Collar Crime, Trilegal
    Location:
    India
    Firm:
    Trilegal
    Smile Telecoms - restructuring plan excluding creditors without a genuine economic interest
    2022-01-14

    Summary

    For the first time, the court has exercised its power under s. 901C(4) Companies Act 2006 to exclude a company’s members and all but one class of its creditors from voting on a restructuring plan under Part 26A. The court was satisfied that only one class of creditors had a genuine economic interest in the company and noted that “this was not a marginal case”.

    Key drivers for the court’s decision (see more detail below) were:

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Insolvency & Restructuring, Telecoms, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Coronavirus
    Authors:
    Katharina Crinson , Will Snowden , Craig Montgomery
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
    Smile Telecoms - using a restructuring plan to compromise the rights of members of a foreign company
    2022-01-17

    In our last blogpost (here) we reported how the court had, for the first time, exercised its power under s. 901C(4) Companies Act 2006 to exclude a company’s members and all but one class of its creditors from voting on a restructuring plan under Part 26A. The facts of this case are set out in more detail in that blogpost.

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Insolvency & Restructuring, Telecoms, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Companies Act 2006 (UK)
    Authors:
    Katharina Crinson , Will Snowden , Craig Montgomery
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
    Smile Telecoms Restructuring Plan: Court grants convening application excluding “out of the money” creditor and shareholder classes from voting on the plan
    2022-01-12

    On 12 January 2022, the English High Court granted Smile Telecoms Holdings Limited’s (“Smile” or the “Company”) application to convene a single meeting of plan creditors (the super senior creditors) to vote on the Company’s proposed restructuring plan (the “Restructuring Plan”). It is the first plan to use section 901C(4) of the Companies Act 2006 (“CA 2006”) to exclude other classes of creditors and shareholders from voting on the Restructuring Plan on the basis that they have no genuine economic interest in the Company. 

    Background 

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Telecoms, Dechert LLP
    Authors:
    Adam Plainer , Solomon J. Noh , Alastair Goldrein , Kay Morley , Tayyibah Arif , Eirene Psomas
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Dechert LLP
    License dues trump the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code?
    2021-06-01

    The NCLAT, in its recent decision in Union of India v.Vijaykumar V Iyer,[1] has arguably created a new class of creditors, not previously known to the provisions of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (‘IBC’).

    Filed under:
    Global, USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Telecoms, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan Attorneys, Federal Communications Commission (USA)
    Authors:
    Puneeth Ganapathy
    Location:
    Global, USA
    Firm:
    Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan Attorneys
    2020 Consumer Financial Services Year in Review & A Look Ahead
    2021-03-02

    2020 was a transformative year for the consumer financial services world. As we navigated an unprecedented volume of industry regulation, Troutman Pepper leveraged our decades of experience and legal know how to help clients find successful resolutions and stay ahead of the compliance curve.

    Filed under:
    USA, Arbitration & ADR, Banking, Company & Commercial, Employment & Labor, Insolvency & Restructuring, IT & Data Protection, Litigation, Telecoms, Troutman Pepper, Cybersecurity
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Troutman Pepper
    cee legislation tracker: austria
    2021-02-18

    1.1 Corona Relief Fund (for more details check out our legal insight)

    Filed under:
    Austria, Capital Markets, Competition & Antitrust, Corporate Finance/M&A, Employment & Labor, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Insolvency & Restructuring, Insurance, IT & Data Protection, Real Estate, Tax, Telecoms, Schoenherr, Coronavirus
    Authors:
    Christoph Haid , Günther Leissler , Stefan Kühteubl
    Location:
    Austria
    Firm:
    Schoenherr
    cee legislation tracker: hungary
    2021-02-17

    Status as of 17/02

    Table of Content

    • 1 Financial Support Measures
    • 2 Capital Markets
    • 3 Employment
    • 4 Real Estate & Construction
    • 5 Tax & Duties
    • 6 Corporate, M&A
    • 7 EU & Competition
    • 8 Courts and Authorities
    • 9 Healthcare
    • 10 Insolvency & Restructuring
    • 11 Insurance
    • 12 Intellectual Property
    • 13 Telecom & Data Protection
    • 14 Other

    1 Financial Support Measures

    Filed under:
    European Union, Hungary, Capital Markets, Corporate Finance/M&A, Employment & Labor, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Insolvency & Restructuring, Insurance, IT & Data Protection, Public, Real Estate, Tax, Telecoms, Schoenherr, Private equity, Telemedicine, Coronavirus
    Authors:
    Alexandra Bognár
    Location:
    European Union, Hungary
    Firm:
    Schoenherr
    COVID-19 Weekly Round-up (4-10 May 2020)
    2020-05-11

    COVID-19 Weekly Report

    4 – 10 May 2020

    Table of contents

    1.     Executive summary. 3

    Filed under:
    Australia, Canada, European Union, Global, United Kingdom, USA, Employment & Labor, Insolvency & Restructuring, Internet & Social Media, IT & Data Protection, Litigation, Telecoms, Lexology PRO, Force majeure, Personal data, 5G network, Coronavirus, GDPR
    Location:
    Australia, Canada, European Union, Global, United Kingdom, USA
    Firm:
    Lexology PRO

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