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Closing your business in Colombia

  • Diaz Reus
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  • Colombia
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  • May 21 2013

In Colombia, as in many other countries, closing down or dissolving a business is often more complicated than setting up a new one. Although there

Court of Appeal takes different position on the "good faith" defence to voidable transactions

  • Bell Gully
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  • New Zealand
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  • May 21 2013

A recent decision of the Court of Appeal (Farrell v Fences & Kerbs Limited 2013 NZCA 91) will make it very difficult for creditors to successfully

Events of default? Worth checking your contracts again

  • Morton Fraser
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 15 2013

The Supreme Court handed down an important judgement last week in the case of BNY Corporate Trustee Services Limited v Eurosail - UK 2007 - 3BL PLC

No termination of commercial agreements in the case of German insolvency proceedings?

  • Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP
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  • Germany
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  • May 15 2013

Commercial agreements usually provide for extraordinary termination rights or even automatic cancellation in the case of insolvency of one of the

Bill for a directorship disqualification order under civil law: political posturing or a real weapon against bankruptcy fraud?

  • Boekel De Nerée
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  • Netherlands
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  • May 13 2013

Recently the Minister of Justice issued a draft bill which, if enacted, will introduce a directorship disqualification order under civil law. The

Cold comfort: how latest case law demonstrates the limitations of comfort letters

  • Wragge & Co LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 9 2013

Comfort letters can be a useful tool for providing an assurance of support from a parent to a subsidiary company. In some cases they help inform the

It pays to break the vicious debtor cycle

  • Bartier Perry
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  • Australia
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  • May 6 2013

In the hire industry, it is common for hirers to incur significant exposure on customer accounts where credit is extended in circumstances where

German equitable subordination law a case of piercing the corporate veil?

  • Kaye Scholer LLP
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  • Germany
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  • April 23 2013

In its decision published on March 13, 2013 (dated February 21, 2013 - IX ZR 3212), the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH or Bundesgerichtshof

UK corporate update recent cases of interest

  • Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 12 2013

There have been a number of recent English Court judgments of interest in the corporate field and this corporate update reports on cases relevant in

Voidable defence is further limited

  • Bell Gully
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  • New Zealand
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  • April 11 2013

Section 296(3) of the Companies Act 1993 (the Act) provides a defence to creditors who have received a payment found to be a voidable transaction