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Ropes & Gray LLP

European restructuring in 2025: four trends shaping the legal landscape

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At the GRR: Women in Restructuring 2025 conference, leading practitioners dissected the year’s most significant developments in global insolvency and restructuring. Here, we distill the essential legal and market insights...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

European Restructuring: 2024 in Review and Outlook for 2025

Market - overview Whilst Europe did not witness the flood of restructuring and insolvencies some had predicted at the start of the year, 2024 was a significant year nonetheless. Many commentators now predict an extended...more

Mayer Brown

Restructuring Downloaded: Episode 3

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In this episode Sheena Frazer and Amy Jacks discuss issues dealing with European assets post Brexit....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Adler Restructuring Plan Set Aside: Reflections on the English Court of Appeal’s Landmark Ruling

In one of the most highly anticipated judgments in the European restructuring market in recent years, on 23 January 2024, the English Court of Appeal overturned the High Court’s decision sanctioning the Adler restructuring...more

A&O Shearman

The Adler appeal: our key takeaways

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The Adler appeal: Our key takeaways from the landmark Court of Appeal judgment setting aside the Adler restructuring plan, and what it means for future restructuring plans - The Court of Appeal has handed down its...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Insights – June 2023

This edition of Skadden’s quarterly Insights looks at the latest trends in shareholder activism, the scrutiny companies are facing over their ESG disclosures and employment considerations for using AI in the workplace, among...more

White & Case LLP

UK M&A volume continues to impress despite value crunch

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The UK M&A market had a mixed start to the year, with deal activity showing strength but with values shifting to the smaller side. There were 483 transactions in Q1 2023, up 13% on the previous quarter and remaining well...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Skadden’s 2023 Insights – Five Critical Areas for the Year Ahead

The pandemic’s impact may be subsiding, but businesses are encountering new challenges across the globe, including the potential for an economic retrenchment, rising interest rates, shifting regulatory and litigation...more

Hogan Lovells

DTEK offers guidance for schemes of arrangement in a post- Brexit world

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Sir Alastair Norris’  High Court judgment of 14 May 2021, confirming the sanctioning of the scheme of arrangement of DTEK Finance PLC in respect of existing bank lenders (the “Bank Scheme”) and the scheme of arrangement of...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Recognition of Restructuring and Insolvency Proceedings

Although the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) arrived in time to prevent a wholesale “no deal Brexit,” issues of cross-border cooperation and recognition in relation to insolvency and restructuring proceedings were not...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Skadden's 2020 Insights

Despite political and economic uncertainties, markets and deal activity were resilient in 2019, and strong fundamentals remain in place heading into 2020. Companies continue to face a challenging litigation and enforcement...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

2019 Is Different From 2008: 4 European Restructuring Developments for Private Equity Firms to Consider

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Persisting political and economic uncertainty means awareness of market changes remains crucial. The 2008 distress cycle triggered defaults and restructurings for European PE portfolio companies, as maintenance covenant...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Corporate Reorganisations 2019

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‘Corporate reorganisation’ is something of an umbrella term, and is used in many different contexts to mean a multitude of different things. At one extreme, a reorganisation may refer to ‘paper’ changes to a corporate group’s...more

Jones Day

English Court of Appeal Upholds "The Gibbs Rule"

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The Situation: In Bakhshiyeva v Sberbank of Russia, a debtor sought to restructure English law-governed debts pursuant to an Azerbaijani restructuring proceeding. In order to prevent certain dissenting creditors from...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Recast EU Insolvency Regulation Comes Into Force

From today, 26 June 2017, the Recast EU Insolvency Regulation (Council Regulation (EC) No. 2015/848) comes into force and will apply to all relevant insolvency proceedings (although existing and ongoing proceedings will...more

BCLP

Reverse Cross Border Merger Could Become Popular as UK Companies Restructure in Advance of Brexit

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Reverse cross border mergers could become a popular device for UK companies seeking to maintain and preserve “passporting” or other EU rights. The mechanism of a reverse cross-border merger (in this context whereby a UK...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Brexit Board Briefing

The world is awash with uncertainty about Brexit. We imagine that you, like most, are sorting through it all. Pillsbury is here to help. Our dedicated Brexit Team is monitoring developments and weighing the legal risks and...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

MoFo Brexit Briefing: Flourishing by becoming familiar: how to attract restructuring investors to the post-Brexit UK

The process of Brexit will take years, and the implications for our clients’ businesses will unfold over time. Our MoFo Brexit Task Force is coordinating Brexit-related legal analysis across all of our offices, and working...more

Littler

Brexit: Some Potential Implications For Employers

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On June 23, 2016, the people of the United Kingdom—(more precisely, the island of Great Britain, comprising England, Wales Scotland and Northern Ireland) voted, pursuant to a referendum called “Brexit,” to leave the European...more

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