On 1 July 2025, the Court of Appeal handed down its judgment overturning the twin restructuring plans proposed by Petrofac Limited and Petrofac International (UAE) LLC under Part 26A of the Companies Act 2006 (the plans)....more
7/9/2025
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HMRC has successfully opposed a restructuring plan (“Plan”) brought by The Great Annual Savings Company Limited (“GAS” or “the Company”) under which HMRC would have been crammed down as a dissenting creditor. The Court held...more
Hong Kong’s last remaining independent airline carrier, Hong Kong Airlines Limited has undergone a significant debt restructuring. In parallel proceedings (a restructuring plan in the UK and a scheme of arrangement in Hong...more
In January 2022, the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) launched a consultation on its approach to compromises for regulated firms and issued its final guidance on 5 July 2022....more
On 28 June 2022 the Insolvency Service published a report it had commissioned from RSM UK to assess the impact that CVAs were having on commercial landlords (the “Report”). The Report was commissioned in response to a number...more
Smile Telecoms, which last year implemented the first restructuring plan for a cross-border African business, has now achieved another first by using section 901C(4) of the Companies Act 2006 to exclude all bar one class from...more