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The European Union is an economic and political partnership comprised of 27 nations within the Eurozone. The EU was established in 1948 to promote stability and cooperation among member states in the aftermath of WWII. The EU maintains a common currency as well as several intranational institutions, including the European Parliament and the European Commission. less -
McDermott Will & Emery

Das StaRUG und dessen Bedeutung für die Restrukturierung von Immobiliengesellschaften – Die wichtigsten Fragen und Antworten

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Insolvenzanträge von namhaften Projektentwicklern und Immobiliengesellschaften stellen die betroffenen Unternehmen und ihre Gläubiger vor große Herausforderungen und setzen die gesamte Immobilienbranche unter Druck....more

Mayer Brown

Restructuring Downloaded: Episode 3

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In this episode Sheena Frazer and Amy Jacks discuss issues dealing with European assets post Brexit....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Adler Restructuring Plan Set Aside: Reflections on the English Court of Appeal’s Landmark Ruling

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In one of the most highly anticipated judgments in the European restructuring market in recent years, on 23 January 2024, the English Court of Appeal overturned the High Court’s decision sanctioning the Adler restructuring...more

Alston & Bird

European Enforcement Guide

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In the current economic climate, it is important that lenders understand how they can enforce security and debt claims, to help in assessing options in the event of default by their customers, and when structuring new...more

A&O Shearman

The Adler appeal: our key takeaways

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The Adler appeal: Our key takeaways from the landmark Court of Appeal judgment setting aside the Adler restructuring plan, and what it means for future restructuring plans - The Court of Appeal has handed down its...more

Conyers

Cayman Islands Litigation: The Rise of Alternative Dispute Resolution

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On 29 November 2023, the English Court of Appeal delivered an important judgment in Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council et al [2023] EWCA Civ 1416 (“Churchill”) which aligns with a wider trend in embracing a...more

K&L Gates LLP

Luxembourg Modernises Its Insolvency Legislation

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On 19 July 2023, the parliament of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Luxembourg) passed bill no. 6539A into law (the New Insolvency Law), marking a significant milestone in the movement to modernise and enhance the...more

White & Case LLP

Luxembourg Reform of Restructuring Procedures

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On 1st November 2023, the new Luxembourg law of 7 August 2023 on the continuation of businesses and modernisation of insolvency law (the "Law") enters into force. This long-awaited reform implements Directive 2019/1023...more

Dechert LLP

New Luxembourg Bankruptcy Law Enhances Luxembourg’s Restructuring Framework

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One of the two main objectives of the Law is to implement the 2019/1023 Directive, which itself aims to foster the proper functioning of the EU internal market and remove hindrances to the exercise of fundamental rights and...more

Hogan Lovells

English court sanctions contested restructuring plan for the Adler Group

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On 12 April 2023, the English High Court (Mr Justice Leech) sanctioned the restructuring plan between AGPS BondCo plc (the “Plan Company”), and six classes of its creditors under Part 26A of the Companies Act 2006 (the...more

Hogan Lovells

New clarity for German insolvency proceedings - No extended realization rights

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In its decision of October 27, 2022 (IX ZR 145/21), the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) ruled on a long-running dispute under German insolvency law. In its decision, the Court assumed that the insolvency administrator's...more

Hogan Lovells

Neue Klarheit für die Insolvenz – Keine Verwertungsrechte analog § 166 InsO des Insolvenzverwalters

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Der BGH hat mit Entscheidung vom 27. Oktober 2022 (IX ZR 145/21) eine langwährende, insolvenzrechtliche Streitigkeit entschieden. In seiner Entscheidung nahm der BGH an, dass sich das Verwertungsrecht des Insolvenzverwalters...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

European Restructuring and Distressed: 2022 in Review

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Market overview - Few could have predicted the unexpected twists and turns 2022 would provide.  A year in which the spectre of war came home to haunt Europe....more

A&O Shearman

The Corporate Crisis and Insolvency Code: a new beginning

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The new Corporate Crisis and Insolvency Code has a dual purpose: to satisfy the need for legal certainties and to streamline procedures....more

International Lawyers Network

Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Rehabilitation Proceedings in Austria (Updated)

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KEY FACTS OF BANKRUPTCY, INSOLVENCY & REHABILITATION PROCEEDINGS UNDER AUSTRIAN LAW - 1. Introductory Remarks on Austria’s Legal System - Austria has a civil law system, as opposed to the common law system of e.g., the...more

White & Case LLP

Amendment of French restructuring and insolvency laws: a new balance between stakeholders

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The reform resulting from Order no. 2021-1193 dated September 15, 2021 is applicable to proceedings initiated as of October 1, 2021 - French insolvency law is undergoing a far-reaching reform, 7 years after the last major...more

Dechert LLP

Restructuring Plans in European Cross-border Restructurings – One Gate Closes but Another One Opens

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Key Takeaways - The use of the UK restructuring plan ("Plan") introduced last summer has been gathering pace with a handful of recent judgments seeing it used to implement cross-border restructurings instead of UK schemes of...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Recognition of Restructuring and Insolvency Proceedings

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Although the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) arrived in time to prevent a wholesale “no deal Brexit,” issues of cross-border cooperation and recognition in relation to insolvency and restructuring proceedings were not...more

Jones Day

Directors' Duties—A European Overview: Financial Distress and COVID-19 - November 2020

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A company or group's financial distress causes significant turmoil for its owners, directors, managers, employees and often its suppliers and other creditors. For directors in particular, there are significant...more

A&O Shearman

The German StaRUG-Scheme: Act on the Stabilisation and Restructuring Framework for Businesses

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A short bullet point summary of the new StaRUG-Scheme and a non-reliance translation of the draft bill for the StaRUG-Scheme from German into English based on the preliminary text of the new draft legislation. ...more

International Lawyers Network

Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Rehabilitation Proceedings in Austria (Updated)

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KEY FACTS OF BANKRUPTCY, INSOLVENCY & REHABILITATION PROCEEDINGS UNDER AUSTRIAN LAW - 1. Introductory Remarks on Austria’s legal system - Austria has a civil law system, as opposed to the common law system of, e.g., the...more

International Lawyers Network

Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Rehabilitation Proceedings in Austria

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KEY FACTS OF BANKRUPTCY, INSOLVENCY & REHABILITATION PROCEEDINGS UNDER AUSTRIAN LAW - 1. Introductory Remarks on Austria’s legal system - Austria has a civil law system, as opposed to the common law system of, e.g., the...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Corporate Reorganisations 2019

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‘Corporate reorganisation’ is something of an umbrella term, and is used in many different contexts to mean a multitude of different things. At one extreme, a reorganisation may refer to ‘paper’ changes to a corporate group’s...more

Jones Day

English Court of Appeal Upholds "The Gibbs Rule"

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The Situation: In Bakhshiyeva v Sberbank of Russia, a debtor sought to restructure English law-governed debts pursuant to an Azerbaijani restructuring proceeding. In order to prevent certain dissenting creditors from...more

Dechert LLP

Restructuring and Insolvency Bulletin Issue 2 - 2017: Focus on schemes of arrangement: recent key judicial decisions

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Schemes of arrangement remain a popular tool for companies to reach a compromise with their creditors and effect complex multi-jurisdictional restructurings. In this article, we highlight a number of recent judicial decisions...more

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