9/29/2025 11:52:40 AM The new procedure for Schemes of Arrangement and Restructuring Plans By Paul Keddie Simon Beale Mark Edwardes Jones The Chancellor of the High Court has published a new Practice Statement in respect of schemes of arrangement and restructuring plans. It...
9/8/2025 1:28:41 PM Court of Appeal refuses interim injunction to suspend business "transformation plan" By Lois Horne James Popperwell Madeleine Brown Rebecca Mansbridge +1 more... Show less The Court of Appeal has upheld the High Court’s decision to refuse an interim injunction that would have prevented a company from...
9/3/2025 11:28:40 AM Restructuring plans post-Petrofac – How do you make a Waldorf salad? By Paul Keddie Lois Horne Simon Beale In a well-known episode of the comedy “Fawlty Towers”, hotel boss Basil Fawlty was frustrated. A guest had asked for a Waldorf salad....
8/1/2025 10:30:38 AM Non-creditors may have standing to oppose recognition of foreign insolvency under common law By Lois Horne Paul Keddie Simon Beale Madeleine Brown +1 more... Show less In Vesnin v Queeld Ventures Ltd & Ors [2025] EWCA Civ 951, the English Court of Appeal has ruled that in an application for recognition...
7/11/2025 9:01:38 AM Restructuring plans post-Petrofac: How to demonstrate that the benefits of a restructuring have been allocated fairly By Jat Bains Paul Keddie Lois Horne On 1 July, the Court of Appeal overturned the High Court’s decision1 to sanction the restructuring plans proposed by two Petrofac group...
5/27/2025 4:27:37 PM Reforming the procedure for Schemes of Arrangement and Restructuring Plans By Jat Bains Paul Keddie Simon Beale Earlier this month, the Chancellor of the High Court launched a consultation seeking views on a draft Practice Statement to replace the...
5/1/2025 11:14:04 AM The International Comparative Legal Guides to Restructuring & Insolvency 2025 By Jat Bains Paul Keddie Simon Beale The ICLG Restructuring & Insolvency covers common issues in restructuring and insolvency, including issues that arise when a company is...
3/26/2025 10:49:08 AM Leveraged to distressed - navigating events of default: acceleration and enforcement challenges for lenders By Xian Wei Yeo Natasha Ahmed Adam Caines Jamie Macpherson +1 more... Show less Experience of international financing transactions has shown us that legal constraints on a lender accelerating debt (demanding its...
2/25/2025 2:00:37 PM 1, 2, 3 reasons for landlords to be cautious when negotiating forfeiture provisions By Simon Beale Clare Breeze Jat Bains Of particular interest to commercial landlords, the recent decision of the court in SBP 2 SARL v 2 Southbank Tenant Ltd [2025] EWHC 16...
2/6/2025 1:54:07 PM New way for insolvency practitioners to obtain non-public information from Companies House By Paul Keddie Timothy Bromley-White The Information Sharing (Disclosure by the Registrar) Regulations 2024 (Regulations) came into force on 20 December 2024. The Regulations...
1/30/2025 11:07:37 AM Dobbies Garden Centres: key considerations for restructuring plans in Scotland By Paul Keddie Macfarlanes and Burness Paull recently advised Dobbies Garden Centres, the UK’s largest operator of garden centres, on its restructuring...
1/14/2025 11:11:07 AM Restructuring plans – dos and don’ts (part 2): lessons from 2024 By Paul Keddie Timothy Bromley-White In 2023 we published 10 do’s and don’ts for restructuring plans, find our previous article available here. Following on from our initial...
10/3/2024 12:09:54 PM Never say never again – Cineworld’s restructuring plan overrides promises not to compromise rents any further By Simon Beale Margaret Rhodes Earlier this week the High Court sanctioned the restructuring plans of four UK companies in the Cineworld Group (the Plan Companies). In...
6/26/2024 2:17:21 PM Winding-up versus arbitration agreements: A victory for petitioning creditors By Paul Keddie Timothy Bromley-White Winding up companies where the underlying debt is subject to an arbitration agreement or the exclusive jurisdiction of a court outside...