Shareholders, Debt Restructuring, Debtors

Revisiting Singapore's Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency Regime: Cross-Class Cramdown in Schemes of Arrangement

Jones Day on 4/15/2025

On March 11, 2025, the Committee to Enhance Singapore's Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency Regime (the "Committee") published a report (the "Report") outlining its recommendations to further enhance and modernize...more

Cram-across: Sino-Ocean Restructuring Plan Makes Waves

Latham & Watkins LLP on 2/14/2025

The evolution of the English RP continues to push the jurisdictional envelope. The English court’s sanction of the Sino-Ocean restructuring plan (RP) marks an interesting development in the evolution of the English RP....more

I Shall (Not) Be Released: With Purdue Pharma Decision, US Supreme Court Remakes Chapter 11 Landscape

Mayer Brown on 7/10/2024

They say every man needs protection, they say that every man must fall. For over 40 years, “the bankruptcy community has recognized the resolution of mass tort claims as a widely accepted core function of bankruptcy courts,”...more

Avoid the B-word! In Times of Financial Stress, Being Proactive Ensures You Have Options

Ankura on 9/11/2023

“How did you go bankrupt? “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” - Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Whether from internal or external factors, every company at some point will experience financial stress. The key to...more

UK and European Restructuring Tools: Choosing the Optimal Forum for Creditor and Shareholder Cramdown

Latham & Watkins LLP on 5/12/2022

Debtors and investors have an enhanced choice of restructuring venues as the EU Restructuring Directive is rolled out in Member States - A number of key European jurisdictions have now implemented the EU Preventive...more

Transaction Highlights: Frigoglass Restructuring

A&O Shearman on 4/10/2018

Shearman & Sterling advised the Frigoglass Group on its successful capital restructuring (the “Restructuring”), which included the use of an English scheme of arrangement....more