Restructuring & Insolvency 2017: Analysis The collaboration between Whos Who Legal and Global Restructuring Review has again generated extensive research into restructuring and insolvency legal markets around the world. All told, we list 570 lawyers this year from 47 jurisdictions. Thought Leaders Europe Rita Gismondi Gianni Origoni Grippo Cappelli & Partners, Rome…
DetailsLegal News & Analysis – Asia Pacific – Singapore – Insolvency & Restructuring 30 November, 2016 The insolvency scene in Singapore look set to change with the likely enactment of the Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 (the Bill). Would the Bill have made any difference to the management of Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd’s (“Hanjin”) insolvency in…
DetailsIn the 1930s Wally McAleese started a company with trucks parked outside his River St home that eventually became an ASX-listed logistics company worth $635.2 million – so how did it end up in voluntary administration less than three years later? When former Mackay based transport firm McAleese Limited listed on the Australian Securities Exchange…
DetailsIn the 1930s Wally McAleese started a company with trucks parked outside his River St home that eventually became an ASX-listed logistics company worth $635.2 million – so how did it end up in voluntary administration less than three years later? When former Mackay based transport firm McAleese Limited listed on the Australian Securities Exchange…
DetailsNEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BlackRock Advisors, LLC announced today that the Board of Trustees of BlackRock Defined Opportunity Credit Trust (NYSE:BHL) (the Trust) approved the adoption of a Plan of Liquidation and the termination of the Trust on or before August 31, 2017, consistent with the Trusts investment objectives. The Trusts investment objectives and policies are not…
DetailsNova Scotian personal bankruptcies are on the rise, according to the latest monthly statistics. The Office of the Superintendant of Bankruptcy Canadas report on September insolvency in Canada shows that personal bankruptcies in Nova Scotia increased by 3.8 per cent to 553 from August. Personal bankruptcies were 12.5 per cent higher in September, compared to…
DetailsThe liquidation of the firms assets means the company will now be dissolved and the money will be used to pay back BHSs creditors. As previously reported by Drapers, unsecured creditors to SHB Realisations, formerly BHS Limited, could receive between 2p and 8p in the pound. Non-preferential creditors are owed £48.5m and BHS administrator Duff…
DetailsBHS has been placed into liquidation following pressure from the Pension Protection Fund, which had argued that shutting down the retailer offered the best option for funding the retirement of former employees. The PPF, a government-backed lifeboat for troubled pension schemes, is the companys biggest creditor and had rowed with BHSs joint administrator, Duff &…
DetailsThe move brings the retailer one step closer to providing a final payment to creditors Stricken retail chain BHS has been placed into liquidation, bringing it closer to offering a final payment to its creditors. It marks the latest chapter in the firm’s sorry saga, which has been dominated by a dispute between former BHS…
DetailsThe move brings the retailer one step closer to providing a final payment to creditors Stricken retail chain BHS has entered liquidation after collapsing into administration in April this year. The move brings the retailer one step closer to providing a final payment to creditors, by allowing it to hand back the leases it holds…
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