By Casey Baseel, RocketNews24 Entertainment Dec. 05, 2016 – 03:16PM JST ( ) TOKYO Happy endings seem to be tough to come by for famed anime (and Shin Godzilla) director Hideaki Anno. Best-known for creating the highly influential Evangelion, something he did largely by drawing from his own battle with depression, in recent years Anno…
IMPORTANT changes to insolvency legislation have come into effect in Northern Ireland, in which the monetary threshold required to seek a bankruptcy order has soared from just £750 to a new level of £5,000. That threshold hasn’t been raised since 1989, and the hefty increase is likely to have an impact on the strategy of…
View Comments With effect from 1 December 2016 Neschen Coating GmbH is now a subsidiary of Blue Cap AG. Blue Cap AG, a listed company with its registered office in Munich specialises in the further development of medium-sized technology-driven companies whilst preserving their corporate identity. The new company has taken over the complete Bueckeburg staff…
December 4th, 2016 Splash 24/7 Asia, Regulatory 0 comments Lauren Tang from law firm Stephenson Harwood (Singapore) Alliance takes a look at the The Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 and how it will change insolvency in Singapore. The insolvency scene in Singapore look set to change with the likely enactment of the Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 (the…
New York-based Anchorage Capital Group has acquired a slice of debt in collapsed law firm Slater & Gordon, as first reported by Street Talk on Sunday. The news comes after this column revealed on November 7 that Citigroup had offloaded its Slater’s exposure at just 38¢ in the dollar to an unnamed syndicate. It has since emerged Anchorage was one of…
SCOTLAND must clamp down on its insolvency industry amid concerns of “potential mis-selling”, a new report warns. More than a thousand debt-ridden Scots went bust last year – many losing their homes – despite entering in to legally binding deals arranged by under-regulated firms, according to the Govan Law Centre. The Glasgow-based not-for-profit in an…
Nova 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…
An Aruban court has officially declared Tiara Air (3P, Aruba) bankrupt following a motion filed earlier this month by several disgruntled employees claiming unpaid back wages. According to local news outlet Noticiacla, the ruling was issued on Monday, November 28. In it, the judge agreed with the applicants that given continuing uncertainty surrounding the airline’s…
FOUR years ago, Sunshine Coast developer Scott Juniper raced after the family Range Rover as it was being repossessed to get his daughter’s baby seat out of the back. Only weeks earlier, he had obtained the paperwork to register for active bankruptcy with debts totalling $72 million. He handed in the paperwork on his 40th…
New Delhi, Nov 30: With insolvency professional agencies getting registered, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code will become operational from tomorrow. The Code will help quicker resolution of cases and unlock the value of assets, Mamta Binani, President, ICSI, the apex body of company secretaries, told reporters here today. The entire Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code will…