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Welcome to February’s edition of our UK Tax Round Up. The month has seen interesting cases on the “entitlement” to income and the single and multiple supply tests for VAT as well as announcement of the publication date for...more
Summary of Case - On August 11, 2020, the administrative agent in a loan to Revlon intended to make an interest payment to the lender syndicate and instead mistakenly wired almost $900 million of its own money to the...more
The abrupt halt in commercial activity caused by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (“COVID-19”) has had a significant impact on the global economy, and in particular, the commercial real estate market. As a result, the commercial...more
Reversing its long standing precedent, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that when a chapter 11 debtor cures a default under its loan agreements, the debtor is required to pay default interest as required...more
GM’s term lenders had received $28 million in cash interest during the 90 days prior to GM’s filing, and $1.5 billion in full payment during the bankruptcy, subject to disgorgement if the term lenders proved to be...more
Recent developments in the law of penalties mean that lenders should carefully review how their default interest provisions operate and whether the amount claimed as default interest can be justified as a genuine pre-estimate...more
In the first four months of 2016 three more judgments relating to issues of contractual interpretation of provisions contained in documents of securitisation transactions (all three of them for legacy CMBS deals) and...more
In Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Beltway One Dev. Grp., LLC (In re Beltway One Dev. Grp., LLC), 547 B.R. 819 (B.A.P. 9th Cir. 2016), the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel recently held that an oversecured creditor is...more
Another bankruptcy court — this time in New York — has weighed in on the issue of whether “make whole” provisions are enforceable in bankruptcy. See In re MPM Silicones, LLC, et al. (a/k/a Momentive Performance Materials). ...more
In LaBonte v. New England Development R.I., LLC et al., No 12-328, the Rhode Island Supreme Court recently clarified the state’s usury law by holding that a fee could be included in the calculation of interest even though it...more