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    FSA publishes Lehman statement
    2010-03-19

    FSA has published the statement it made to the US bankruptcy court examiner on the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. It has published the statement in the public interest, although it contains information that would otherwise have been confidential. The statement explains FSA’s actions and conversations in respect of the potential purchase by Barclays of the company in September 2008.

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Banking, Insolvency & Restructuring, Dentons, Confidentiality, Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, Barclays, Lehman Brothers, United States bankruptcy court
    Authors:
    Robert Finney
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Dentons
    Reconstructions - tax problems you can avoid
    2008-10-09

    A business you are buying or selling, if reorganised for sale, may be less valuable if you do not avoid tax pitfalls. This note highlights the most common pitfalls, including those related to an insolvency. You can avoid most with planning.

    Reorganisations

    Many businesses will now be considering transactions involving corporate reorganisations. They might want to take advantage of market conditions to buy or be considering the sale of business units to refocus strategy. Or they might become involved in an insolvency or reconstruction.

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Insolvency & Restructuring, Tax, Dentons, Debtor, Unsecured debt, Value added tax, Accounting, Swap (finance), Debt, Liability (financial accounting), Liquidation, Land value tax, Beneficial ownership, Subsidiary, Stamp duty, HM Revenue and Customs (UK)
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Dentons
    COVID-19: the company administration aspects of the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020
    2020-06-30

    The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (CIGA) came into force on 26 June 2020, having been fast-tracked through Parliament. Although most of CIGA relates to insolvency law, the Act also makes some temporary changes to company law in the UK. The purpose of these is to give companies greater flexibility to deal with the difficulties caused by COVID-19.

    Key changes

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Dentons, Coronavirus
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Dentons
    Priority in insolvency - heavy lies the Crown (preference)?
    2019-04-04

    Delivering on the announcement in the Autumn Budget, HMRC issued its consultation "Protecting your taxes in insolvency" on 26 February 2019. The consultation proposes legislation that will give HMRC the elevated status to secondary preferential creditor in a company's insolvency. If this is implemented, HMRC will have priority to recover certain taxes from insolvent businesses ahead of other creditors from 6 April 2020.

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Insolvency & Restructuring, Tax, Dentons, HM Revenue and Customs (UK)
    Authors:
    Mark Price
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Dentons
    One test or two? Insolvency events of default after Eurosail (continued)
    2016-09-01

    Facility agreements almost always contain events of default based on a borrower's insolvency. Defining insolvency is therefore key. In this article published in July 2013 we discussed how, following Eurosail1 , the common law was beginning to move the statutory tests of insolvency towards a more commercial view.

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Dentons
    Authors:
    Hayley Çapani
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Dentons
    Should the UK adopt Cape Town’s Alternative A Insolvency regime? Lessons from the US and Canada
    2014-12-11

    This article first appeared in the December 2014 edition of Corporate Rescue & Insolvency journal. Written by Deepak Reddy in Dentons' New York office, Carlo Vairo in Dentons’ Toronto office and Alexander Hewitt in Dentons' London office.

    Key Points

    Filed under:
    Canada, United Kingdom, USA, Aviation, Insolvency & Restructuring, Dentons
    Authors:
    Alexander Hewitt
    Location:
    Canada, United Kingdom, USA
    Firm:
    Dentons
    Government to push ahead with bank accounts for bankrupts reform
    2012-12-14

    The Government has fed back on the responses to DBIS’s consultation on the effect of bankruptcy on the ability to access a basic bank account. Responses to the consultation have shown that only 27% of people subject to a bankruptcy order are able to retain their bank account. A bank's decision not to offer a bank account to a bankrupt is mainly based on the bankrupt's credit record, rather than on the risk of the trustee making a claim against the bank, a risk that the consultation process has shown is more perceived than real.

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Banking, Insolvency & Restructuring, Dentons, Bankruptcy
    Authors:
    Andrew Barber
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Dentons
    US bankruptcy automatic stay thwarts UK proceedings by the Pension Regulator
    2012-01-23

    On December 29, 2011, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued an opinion in the chapter 11 bankruptcy case In re Nortel Networks, Inc., holding that the "automatic stay" on creditor collection actions outside the bankruptcy applied to prevent the UK Pension Protection Fund and the Trustee of the UK Nortel Pension Plan from participating in UK pensions proceedings initiated by the UK Pensions Regulator.

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, USA, Employee Benefits & Pensions, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Dentons, Bankruptcy, Debtor, Pension Protection Fund, United States bankruptcy court, Third Circuit
    Authors:
    Elmer Doonan , Carole Neville , Andrew Patten , Robert E. Richards
    Location:
    United Kingdom, USA
    Firm:
    Dentons
    When trade finance meets insolvency
    2011-03-04

    There has been an upturn in the frequency of trade finance workouts, restructurings and formal insolvencies. Susan Moore and Luci Mitchell-Fry look at some key issues that banks face when trade finance lending passes to "bad bank".

    The bank's decisions at every stage of a trade finance transaction are critical: at origination; when following a workout/restructuring; and once a formal insolvency process becomes a reality.

    Origination

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Banking, Insolvency & Restructuring, Dentons, Debtor, Collateral (finance), Credit risk, Liquidation, Payment protection insurance
    Authors:
    Susan Moore , Luci Mitchell-Fry
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Dentons
    UNCITRAL Practice Guide on Cross-Border Insolvency Cooperation
    2010-02-03

    Summary

    On 1 July 2009, UNCITRAL adopted the Practice Guide on Cross-Border Insolvency Cooperation. The Practice Guide provides a useful reference source on some practical aspects of cooperation and communication to deal with many of the conflicts and tensions between stakeholders and jurisdictions inevitable in cross-border cases. To ease these tensions, it is often essential for creditors and, importantly, the courts concerned to reach agreement about how the process will be handled.

    International context

    Filed under:
    Global, United Kingdom, Arbitration & ADR, Insolvency & Restructuring, Dentons, Confidentiality, Consideration, UNCITRAL, European Commission, United States bankruptcy court
    Authors:
    Sarah Lawson
    Location:
    Global, United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Dentons

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