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Cross-Border Bankruptcy Code Debt Restructuring

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New York Bankruptcy Court Recognizes English Scheme of Arrangement Proceeding Under Chapter 15 Despite Concerns of Improper COMI...

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Approaching its 20-year anniversary, chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code has proven to be an invaluable tool for facilitating cross-border bankruptcy and insolvency cases. As foreign debtors have increasingly relied on chapter...more

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Recent Decision Holds Bankruptcy Courts May Independently Grant Nonconsensual Third-Party Releases to Enforce Foreign...

On April 21, 2025, Chief Judge Martin Glenn of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York issued a memorandum opinion in In re Odebrecht Engenharia e Construção S.A., Case No. 25-10482 (MG), addressing...more

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Interpreting the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency: Singapore courts adopt a uniform, consistent and expansive...

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Creditors involved in cross-border restructuring or insolvency proceedings of corporate groups will find that the approach of the Singapore courts to questions of cross-border insolvency provides the assurance of an orderly...more

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Cross-Border Recognition: Hong Kong Schemes and the Compromise of Foreign Law-Governed Debt

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Judicial comments cast doubt on the ability to compromise US law-governed debt effectively based on Chapter 15 recognition alone. A recent first instance decision in Hong Kong has highlighted an important...more

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Stoneway: Use of the CBCA as a Cross-Border Restructuring Tool

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In May 2022, the Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA) was used to implement a cross-border and international restructuring of a group of companies (collectively known as Stoneway),1 whose principal business is the...more

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Business Restructuring Review - September 2019

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Chapter 11 Plan Distributions Are Not Collateral Covered by Intercreditor Agreement's Waterfall Provision - In In re Energy Future Holdings Corp., 2019 WL 2535700 (3d Cir. June 19, 2019), a panel of the U.S. Court of...more

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SDNY Bankruptcy Court Reaffirms the Low Bar of the Property Requirement for Filing a Chapter 15 Case

Last year, we discussed a decision by Judge Sean Lane of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York concerning section 109(a) of the Bankruptcy Code. In a recent cross-border case, In re PT...more

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The Year in Bankruptcy: 2017

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The initial year of the Trump administration colored much of the political, business, and financial headlines of 2017, both in the U.S. and abroad. Key administration-related developments in 2017 included U.S. withdrawal from...more

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