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What's happening in the world of corporate rescue

In these unprecedented times, many businesses are having to look hard at how they can emerge from the economic downturn intact – and ideally stronger than before.

Below you will find all our latest thinking on restructuring and insolvency (R&I) trends around the world – and what they mean for parties across the R&I spectrum.

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Sino-Ocean’s Contentious Rescue Plan: Court Sides with Survival

19 February 2025 UPDATE: Following sanction of the English RP, Justice Linda Chan of the Hong Kong High Court sanctioned Sino Ocean Group’s Hong Kong scheme of arrangement on 19 February 2025,…

Author(s): Alistair Milne, Xuan Boh, Katharina Crinson, Rachel Seeley, Richard Tett, Daniel Anderson

  • restructuring and insolvency

New rules allow Companies House to share non-public information with insolvency officeholders

New rules in the UK allow Companies House to share non-public information with insolvency officeholders and the Official Receiver. While in many cases there may be limited non-public information…

Author(s): Rhys Surtees, Rebecca Colby, Frank Clarke, Katharina Crinson

  • restructuring and insolvency

Harmonisation of EU insolvency laws moving closer to a common approach

On 13 December 2024, EU member states agreed on a ‘partial’ general approach to the harmonisation of insolvency law. Two years ago, on 7 December 2022, the European Commission published its proposal…

Author(s): Charlotte Ausema, Susanne Hoerrmann, Silvia Angos, Katharina Crinson, Hannah Ewing, Simran Khan

  • restructuring and insolvency

Restructuring plans – 2024 in review and predictions for 2025

2024 was a busy year for the UK restructuring market, and particularly for the restructuring plan – we’ve seen some important developments in case law and a number of “firsts” for the plan. How did…

Author(s): Michael Atkinson, Katharina Crinson, Craig Montgomery

  • restructuring and insolvency

Restructuring Meets Litigation: Insights from the Chaptre Finance Decision

In a recent decision, the English High Court has continued the trend of treating court-based restructurings as civil litigation. As we discussed in our previous blog on the continued development of…

Author(s): Sunil Singh, Frank Clarke, Emilio Salice, Craig Montgomery, Katharina Crinson

  • restructuring and insolvency
  • litigation

Panoramic: Restructuring & Insolvency – 2025 edition now out

We are delighted to announce the release of the latest edition of Panoramic: Restructuring & Insolvency. This publication covers 37 jurisdictions worldwide; our first-hand experience across many of…

Author(s): Katharina Crinson, Catherine Balmond, Richard Tett

  • restructuring and insolvency

Dutch Supreme Court provides clarity on aspects of the WHOA in Royal IHC judgment

On 25 October 2024, the Dutch Supreme Court ruled in a ground-breaking judgment in Royal IHC that a WHOA plan may change creditors’ and shareholders’ rights but cannot impose more onerous…

Author(s): Charlotte Ausema, Huub Boekhorst, Michael Broeders, Tim Elkerbout

  • restructuring and insolvency

UK Listing Rules Reforms: Companies facing financial difficulty

On 29 July 2024 the new UK Listing Rules (UKLR) came into force, representing the most substantial overhaul of the rules in over three decades. For more information about these reforms and their…

Author(s): Hamish Hatrick, Nicholas Cooper, Lindsay Hingston, Jennifer McCarthy, Julian Makin, Tom Godwin, Richard Ho

  • restructuring and insolvency

Distressed carve-outs: great risks, great opportunities

Buying parts of a distressed company may offer great opportunities for buyers. When a company is struggling but not yet insolvent, external financing might dry up and the sale of non-core activities…

Author(s): Stefan Bajohr, Franz Aleth

  • carve-outs
  • restructuring and insolvency
  • mergers and acquisitions

NMC Healthcare – Fraudulent and Wrongful Trading under ADGM Law

The Abu Dhabi Global Market (the “ADGM”) courts have recently handed down their decision in NMC Healthcare Limited & Others v Shetty & Others ([2024] ADGMCFI 0007). The decision deals with several…

Author(s): Tabasam Faqir, Billy Liu, Craig Montgomery, Katharina Crinson

  • restructuring and insolvency
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