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This week's edition of Restructuring & Insolvency weekly highlights includes: an analysis of the office-holder’s approach to assigning litigation...
The Insolvency Service has updated its enforcement outcomes management information tables for February 2026. The data shows that there were 114...
Restructuring & Insolvency analysis: Two former directors of the company in liquidation (the Company) applied under section 168(5) of the Insolvency...
The Accountant in Bankruptcy (AiB) has announced that an independent review of Scotland’s statutory debt solutions has published its final report,...
The Insolvency Service has announced a five-year disqualification for Surrey business adviser, Richard Beal, following the liquidation of his...
Latest Restructuring & Insolvency Practice Notes
Why harmonisation is neededThe divergence between various countries’ insolvency laws has an impact on:•the recovery rates of creditors in different...
Name of parties and citation(s)Judgment dateSubjectFurther readingRe Esken Ltd (Overseas Company Number FC041629) [2026] EWHC 495 (Ch)6 March...
What is an LME?The term liability management exercise (LME) can have various meanings. For the purposes of this Practice Note: (i) LMEs include...
Court fees are payable in connection with the commencement of certain insolvency processes and during an insolvency process (usually in relation to...
The debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing entails a debtor obtaining a loan, usually on a secured basis, from one or more lenders in order to fund its...
Latest Restructuring & Insolvency Precedents
[Investment Bank name](in Special Administration)Special Administrators’ Proposals for achieving the purpose of the Special AdministrationNotice:...
Frequently Asked Questions—clients, investors or trade creditorsThese FAQs are intended as guidance only in relation to the Special Administration of...
Court Reference No:[ INSERT COURT REF. NUMBER][IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS [OF ENGLAND AND WALES] [IN [INSERT...
[INSERT NAME OF INVESTMENT BANK]Minutes of a meeting of the board of directors of [insert name of investment bank] (the ‘Company’) held at [insert...
This is an indicative timetable. None of the deadlines are specified by statute. Where the company proposing the plan is a regulated entity, the...
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Debt for equity swaps
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Bankruptcy petitions—process and procedure post-presentation of the petition
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Role, powers, functions and duties of an administrator
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Effect on proceedings against a company being wound up and after a winding-up order is made
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Insolvency searches for companies at the Central Registry
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Transactions defrauding creditors—claims under section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986
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Role, powers, functions and duties of a trustee in bankruptcy
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Administration expenses
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Associated legal terms
Company voluntary arrangement
An alternative to an insolvent liquidation, whether a creditors' voluntary winding up or a compulsory winding up, whereby a company enters into a binding arrangement with its creditors to compromise its debts.
Prescribed part
A sum of money from the floating charge pool set aside for unsecured creditors in a liquidation, administration or administrative receivership, found under Insolvency Act 1986, s 176A.
Retention of title (ROT)
A clause used by suppliers to retain title to goods.
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