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Maintaining flexibility and pragmatism in pan-European and global insolvencies

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Published on: 22 September 2015
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Table of contents

  • Original news
  • What was the background to the hearing?
  • What were the legal issues that the judge had to decide in this application?
  • What did the judge decide, and why?
  • To what extent is the judgment helpful in clarifying the law in this area?
  • What practical lessons can those advising take away from the case?

Article summary

Restructuring & Insolvency analysis: As the Nortel Networks saga continues, Fraser Ritson, partner, and Laura Newbery, associate at Addleshaw Goddard LLP, remark on the court’s approach in this pan-European insolvency decision

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