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Oon & Bazul LLP | Singapore, USA | 17 Jul 2020
In 2016 the Ministry of Law unveiled plans to strengthen Singapore as an international centre for debt restructuring. Pursuant to these plans…
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McMillan LLP | Brazil, Canada | 23 Jan 2020
Canada and Brazil share a long and significant common history of business and investment. Over a century ago, Canadian companies were heavily…
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Paul Weiss | Global | 21 Dec 2018
Bankruptcy partner Brian Hermann and counsel Lauren Shumejda co-authored the chapter, “U.S.: New Strategies for Getting Paid: Recent Investment Fund…
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Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP | USA | 7 Dec 2018
“Section 365(h) of the Bankruptcy Code [(“Code”)] and the doctrine of equitable recoupment entitled [a commercial tenant] to continue paying [reduced]…
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Squire Patton Boggs | USA | 3 Dec 2018
A majority of today's large Chapter 11 cases are structured as quick Section 363 sales of all the debtor's assets followed by confirmation of a plan…
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Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP | USA | 19 Nov 2018
Although it may be difficult to define precisely what an “executory contract” is (with the Bankruptcy Code providing no definition), I think most…
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Taylor Wessing | Germany | 8 Nov 2018
The German Federal Court of Justice has tightened its grip on company directors again. In a recent judgment on directors’ liability in insolvency…
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K&L Gates LLP | European Union, United Kingdom | 23 Oct 2018
Introduction Following recent proposed changes to UK restructuring and insolvency law, a new European Union (“EU”) directive concerning restructuring…
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Clayton Utz | Australia | 11 Sep 2018
Lending to a company in bankruptcy protection or external administration may seem counterintuitive given that, by definition, it has insufficient…
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Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP | USA | 27 Aug 2018
Section 363(k) of the Bankruptcy Code grants secured creditors the right to credit bid up to the full amount of their claim as a form of currency to…