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Hong Kong and PRC Restructuring & Special Situations 2023 year in review - Key insolvency decisions in Hong Kong and the People’s...

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The past twelve months have been a time of continuing significant developments in courtled corporate rescues in Hong Kong, all within the flexible confines of the common law and in the continued absence of a statutory...more

Conyers

Locality of a Debt

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For businesses that are family-owned and run in jurisdictions such as Hong Kong, Mainland China and Taiwan, it is common for beneficial ownership and control of the business enterprise to be vested in the shareholders of a...more

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Corporate Digest: Notable Deals and Transactions - March 2023

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This digest outlines some of the significant legal work undertaken by Conyers on behalf of our clients around the world since the beginning of 2022. The year was challenging for many of our clients, with global uncertainty...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Skadden’s 2023 Insights – Five Critical Areas for the Year Ahead

The pandemic’s impact may be subsiding, but businesses are encountering new challenges across the globe, including the potential for an economic retrenchment, rising interest rates, shifting regulatory and litigation...more

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Restructuring & Special Situations 2022 Year in Review Key insolvency decisions in Hong Kong and the People’s Republic of China

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2022 has been a year which has seen significant developments in court-led corporate rescue and insolvency law reform in Hong Kong. In light of the lingering COVID19 pandemic, it was all the more important that the Hong Kong...more

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Hong Kong Court of Appeal gives boost to bondholders in significant "keepwell" victory

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The Hong Kong Court of Appeal has dismissed a challenge to a first instance decision which recognized the Beijing administrators of the commercial arm of the Peking University group but granted only a limited stay of...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Peloton Founder Foley Steps Aside as CEO, Company to Restructure

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Not that far removed from a gangbusters pandemic performance by his company driven by exercise-crazed consumer panic-buying its bikes and treadmills, Peloton founder John Foley has stepped down as company CEO and announced...more

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PRC court makes first recognition order under new Hong Kong – PRC insolvency arrangement

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In a significant decision, the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court (Shenzhen court) has ordered formal recognition in the mainland for Hong Kong appointed liquidators. This is the first occasion on which a mainland court has...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The Hong Kong Court Refuses to Stay ‘Keepwell’ Claims

In a noteworthy decision handed down on 17 December 2021 (“Decision”), the High Court of Hong Kong recognised the Mainland China bankruptcy administrator (“Administrator”) of Peking University Founder Group Limited (PKU) and...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The First Test Case of the Cross-Border Arrangement Between Hong Kong and Mainland China on Insolvency and Restructuring Matters

In the groundbreaking recent decision in Re Samson Paper Company Limited (in Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidation) [2021] HKCFI 2151 (“Samson”), the Hong Kong Companies Court (the “Hong Kong court”) has for the first time issued...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The New Cross-Border Arrangement Between Hong Kong and Mainland China on Insolvency and Restructuring Matters – A Comparison with...

On May 14, 2021, the Department of Justice of the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region announced that the Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong and the Vice-president of the Supreme People’s Court (the...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Restructuring & Insolvency in Hong Kong – Recent Key Cases Update

In light of the global economic dislocation and significant challenges faced by many businesses in Asia over the past year, the Hong Kong Companies Court has recently been grappling with multiple crossborder corporate...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Recognition of Hong Kong Insolvency Proceedings in Mainland China – A Test Case in the Making?

In Re Ando Credit Limited [2020] HKCFI 2775 (“Re Ando”), the Hong Kong Companies Court recently appointed provisional liquidators over a Hong Kong company, Ando Credit Limited, in novel circumstances with potentially...more

Foster Garvey PC

OTA & Travel Distribution Update: Booking Holdings and TripAdvisor dominate headlines with second-quarter earnings releases,...

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Below is an abbreviated version of this week’s OTA &Travel Distribution Update. Enjoy....more

White & Case LLP

Ahead of the pack: US M&A 2019: Consumer deals fall but disruption may be a driver

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Restructurings and uncertainty are hitting the US consumer sector. Retail M&A deal volume dropped 11 percent year-on-year to 459 deals, while deal value dropped 36 percent to US$76.87 billion. Consumer M&A activity...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 10.31.2019 | Top Story: Fed Delivers Expected Interest Rate Cut

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As universally expected, the Fed’s Open Market Committee delivered its third interest rate cut of 2019 yesterday, though it did so while signaling that it’s likely to pause before taking action again and “is now shifting into...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - July 2019 #2

Oil Drops More Than 3% After State Secretary Pompeo Says Iran Is Ready To Negotiate About Its Missile Program - "Oil prices turned lower on Tuesday, falling by about $2 a barrel as U.S. President Donald Trump said progress...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Skadden's 2013 Insights

We are pleased to provide a collection of commentaries on the critical legal issues facing our clients in 2013. There is hope that global economic and market conditions will continue to improve despite ongoing...more

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