News of the bankruptcy of one of the world’s largest ocean carriers, Hanjin Shipping Co., Ltd. (Hanjin), continues to have a ripple effect globally, creating legal entanglements and disrupting company supply chains. Some ports, terminals, stevedores, truckers and rail carriers have refused to service Hanjin vessels and containers for fear of not getting paid.
As Venable has previously reported, Hanjin Shipping Co. Ltd. (Hanjin) recently filed for court receivership in South Korea. Immediately thereafter, Hanjin sought protection by filing for recognition of the South Korean proceeding pursuant to Chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
Since the inauguration of electronic litigation or e-litigation (hereinafter “e-litigation”) services for patent cases in April 2010, the Korean Supreme Court has gradually expanded the scope of availability of e-litigation services to civil, family law and administrative cases, and provisional attachment and injunction cases. With the completion of the e-litigation system for rehabilitation and bankruptcy cases, those proceedings and their ancillary proceedings can be administered electronically from April 28, 2014, as described below.
On 19 May 2016, the National Assembly passed the bill to amend the Debtor Rehabilitation and Bankruptcy Act (“DRBA”). Key amendments include (1) improvements to the early proposed rehabilitation plan submission policy; (2) broadened scope of creditor participation in the proceedings; and (3) stronger protection of creditors with commercial claims. The revised DRBA is expected to enter into force 3 months after promulgation.
I. Improvements to the early rehabilitation plan proposal submission policy
South Korea’s Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd. filed for court receivership on Wednesday, August 31st in South Korea after losing the support of its banks, setting the stage for its assets to be frozen as West Coast ports deny access to its vessels. This recent development will have an immediate impact on a number of Buchalter’s clients, including manufacturers, retailers and asset based lenders.
We have all heard that the world is, once again, flat, given the importance of global trade and the interconnectivity of the supply chain. With Hanjin Shipping Co. Ltd. ("Hanjin"), South Korea's largest shipping company and the world's seventh largest container operator in terms of capacity, filing for receivership in connection with its bankruptcy proceeding in South Korea this week, new complications are appearing throughout the global supply chain.
You may recognise the quote in the title from the film "Ron Burgundy – Anchorman" about our favourite newsreader from San Diego in the 80's. Of course he was talking about a street fight with news teams from other San Diego stations but could just as easily been talking about the seemingly sudden financial demise of the Hanjin shipping line.
Los administradores de una sociedad incursa en causa de disolucin no responden de deudas sociales anteriores a su nombramiento
Los administradores responden de las deudas contradas por la sociedad tras la aparicin de una causa de disolucin si no promueven la ordenada disolucin y liquidacin. Sin embargo, esta obligacin se refiere a las deudas surgidas durante su cargo, de manera que no les son imputables las deudas originadas antes de su nombramiento como administradores, aunque al acceder al cargo la sociedad ya estuviera en causa de disolucin.
After years of Spanish non-performing loan (NPL) sales, a significant hurdle preventing purchasers from enforcing the underlying loans has now been removed.
Around 33,000 UK-based pensioners of the Nortel group look set to receive a greater share of the group’s $7bn worldwide assets, following a joint allocation hearing in the US and Canadian courts. This should mitigate earlier difficulties encountered in trying to use the Pensions Regulator’s anti- avoidance powers to recover monies from non-UK companies.
The decision may also have wider implications for unsecured lenders to a company which is part of a multi-jurisdictional group headquartered in the US or Canada.
WHAT WAS THE BACKGROUND TO THIS?