The England and Wales Court of Appeal recently handed down its first judgment relating to a restructuring plan under Part 26A of the UK Companies Act 2006: Re AGPS Bondco Plc [2024] EWCA Civ 24. Restructuring plans were a...more
2/23/2024
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UK Companies Acts
The UK Supreme Court has delivered its long awaited judgment in BTI v Sequana. It considers if and when directors of a financially distressed company incorporated in England and Wales have a duty to consider, or to act in...more
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - A Pre-Pack Sale is the sale of all or substantially all of an English company’s assets to a third-party purchaser immediately or shortly after the distressed company goes into a UK rescue procedure called...more
The UK government has extended its suspension of various rules and procedures affecting distressed businesses as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. However, with the UK lockdown easing on a rolling basis up to...more
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - On a UK company’s insolvency, the UK tax authority (HMRC) will become a preferential creditor in respect of certain unpaid taxes (Crown Preference) with effect from 1 December 2020. Despite lobbying...more
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - On 8 October 2020, the UK Government's Insolvency Service issued a report on the state of pre-pack sales following the administration of insolvent UK companies (Pre-Pack Sales) and published draft...more
In a consultation issued by the UK tax authority, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), on 26 February 2019, a change in the order of asset distribution in the insolvency of UK companies has been proposed. The amendments would newly...more
The updated UK Insolvency Rules 2016 will come into force on 6 April 2017.
The new rules have four aims:
- to reflect modern business practice and increase efficiency;
- to restructure and modernise the 1986...more