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UK Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill: A Game-Changer?

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

On May 20, 2020, the UK government published its highly anticipated Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill (the ‘Bill’). The Bill aims to provide businesses with increased flexibility and breathing...

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Power dynamics in changes of corporate control: Transfer schemes of arrangement and shareholders’ voting practices examined through the prism of Re Dee Valley Group plc [2017] EWHC 184 (Ch)

Georgina Tsagas

In February 2017, a water utility FTSE 100 company, Severn Trent, successfully completed the takeover of its supplier Dee Valley Water, for £84m. Prior to the shareholders’ meeting at which the...

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Schemes of Arrangement - the End of the Numerosity Test?

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

The High Court yesterday held that a Chairperson of a shareholder scheme meeting may reject votes cast against a scheme of arrangement in circumstances where the shares were acquired through an...

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Commercial Law

Privatbank and Others - Developments in Recent Scheme Cases - Procedural and Evidential Requirements, Class Issues and Good Forum Shopping

Insolvency Lawyers' Association

This post comes to us from the Insolvency Lawyers' Association. Public Joint-Stock Company Commercial Bank ‘Privatbank’ [2015] EWHC 3299 (Ch) (David Richards J, 13 Nov 2015); Codere Finance (UK) Ltd...

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Corporate Finance

A New UK Debt Restructuring Regime? A Critique of the Insolvency Service’s Consultation Paper – Part 2

Jennifer Payne, Merton College

In Part 1 of this post I explained the background to the Insolvency’s Services Consultation Paper and analysed the proposals for a new moratorium to promote business rescue. Part 2 of this post will...

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Corporate Finance

A New UK Debt Restructuring Regime? A Critique of the Insolvency Service’s Consultation Paper – Part 1

Jennifer Payne, Merton College

Introduction It is well understood that an effective business rescue regime can support business growth and can add value to an economy. The global financial crisis and the business failures that...

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Corporate Governance
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New Book: David Kershaw's "Principles of Takeover Regulation"

David Kershaw

Principles of Takeover Regulation (OUP, 2016) explores the nature and optimality of the regulation of the UK’s market for corporate control through the Takeover Code, which is maintained and enforced...

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The Transactional Scope of Takeover Law in Comparative Perspective

Paul Davies QC (hon), Harris Manchester College

Which transactions do takeover codes deal with? This may seem to be an easy question to answer since we have a pretty clear idea of what a takeover bid is. It is an offer by someone aiming to acquire...

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