A U.S. court is expected on June 11 to confirm the restructuring plan of Bahrain-based Arcapita , the company said, making it the first Gulf company to file for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 rules, Thomson Reuters News & Insight reported. Like most investment companies in the region, Arcapita was hit by the financial crisis as it struggled to exit its investments and its fee income from raising fresh funds in the Gulf Arab region collapsed.

Troubled German regional lender HSH said it had cut its exposure to bad shipping loans by persuading struggling debtors to transfer ownership of some vessels to U.S.-listed shipping company Navios, Reuters reported. The deal, unveiled on Monday, may provide a blueprint for the financing of ships that are insolvent and a way for the Hamburg-based lender to cut its 9 billion euro ($11.7 billion) portfolio of bad ship loans, which has already forced it to seek state aid.

George Osborne is to go toe-to-toe with the International Monetary Fund next month in a battle over the credibility of his Plan A on austerity for the UK, amid signs that incoming Bank of England governor Mark Carney will be a key ally in his fight, the Financial Times reported. The chancellor is said by aides to be prepared to “aggressively” defend his policies when an IMF team arrives in London to make an annual assessment of the British economy, and is prepared to defy their recommendations if necessary.

Nortel Networks Corp.'s European units on Wednesday appealed a Delaware bankruptcy judge’s decision to forego arbitration and, instead, hold a cross-border trial in conjunction with a Canadian court to decide how to split $7.3 billion in cash between the company’s far-flung affiliates, Law360 reported. The appeal — lodged in Delaware district court — challenges U.S.

When Wolfgang Schäuble, the German finance minister and war horse of European politics, celebrated his 70th birthday at a theater in Berlin last September, two of the most powerful women in the world offered warm words in his honor, the International Herald Tribune reported. One was Chancellor Angela Merkel. The other, delivering the keynote speech, was Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund. Ms. Lagarde’s presence reflected her close, longtime friendship with Mr. Schäuble. But it also was a confirmation of the enormous stature that Ms.

A federal appeals court has resolved a split among judges in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan that could help determine when recognition as a foreign main proceeding should be granted in Chapter 15 bankruptcy petitions, Thomson Reuters News & Insight reported. The ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also helped clarify that liquidators of investment funds chartered offshore will not be precluded from U.S. courts under Chapter 15.

Calgary-based oil field services firm Poseidon Concepts Corp. filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection Friday in Colorado bankruptcy court, three days after petitioning for creditor protection in Canadian court and nearly two months after announcing it would have to restate its earnings for three quarters of 2012, Law360 reported.

U.S. units of Canadian telemarketer iMarketing Solutions Group Inc. entered Chapter 15 in Delaware bankruptcy court Friday and sought immediate recognition of the insolvency proceedings commenced by its parent in a Toronto court earlier in the day, Law360 reported. Counsel for Xentel Inc. and seven other IMSG subsidiaries appeared in Wilmington hours after the Chapter 15 filing and asked the Delaware court to officially recognize the foreign proceedings as the company was “gravely concerned” that U.S.

Corp. Geo SAB, Mexico’s second- largest publicly traded homebuilder, said it will seek to restructure debt after bleeding cash for a third straight year, sparking a selloff that sent its bonds to record lows, Bloomberg reported. Geo hired Fians Capital to provide advice with the “principal objective of generating efficiencies and reviewing alternatives for restructuring its debt,” according to a filing to the Mexican stock exchange.

Investors in one-time market darling Poseidon Concepts Corp. are unlikely to recover any value despite the company winning temporary court protection from creditors, a Calgary analyst says, the Edmonton Journal reported. On Wednesday, the Calgary oilfield fluid-handling company that once had a market value of $1.3 billion announced it had been granted a Court of Queen’s Bench order under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act. It was Poseidon’s first official word since Feb. 26, when it announced two executives had quit, and Feb.