The government’s introduction of a safe harbour to protect directors from insolvent trading liability will drive a culture change expected to prevent the premature collapse of companies, according to experts. Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O’Dwyer has rallied lawyers and turnaround professionals to back the government’s changes, saying they will be key to…
Ryanair may have bluster more than anyone else in the world, a senior executive for the airline acknowledged Wednesday, but it is serious about bidding for the short-haul operation of struggling Italian airline Alitalia and turning it into a separate division of Ryanair that might operate with a hybrid full-service, low-cost model. But Dublin-based Ryanair…
A pan-India home buyers’ pressure group, Fight For RERA, has reached out to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to seek an amendment to the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code 2016 to prioritise homebuyers‘ interest in insolvency proceedings. The pressure group has appealed to the government to provide powers to realty regulators through the Real Estate (Regulation and…
Another Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance co-op bit the dust. Baltimore-based Evergreen Health, one of 23 co-ops created as a way to stimulate competition in the ACA’s health insurance marketplace, has been declared insolvent and will be liquidated, and all its members’ policies will be canceled at the end of September. Four other insurers…
A significant ruling that a couple have no legal standing to seek a court review of KBC Banks rejection of their personal insolvency arrangement aimed at ensuring they remain in their family home has implications for hundreds of similar cases. David Hall, of the Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation, said the Circuit Court decision on Wednesday…
The couple, who have three young children, had been seeking approval for a deal which would have seen debts of 739,000 written down to 360,000, effectively wiping out their negative equity. They argued the proposal, which was signed off by a personal insolvency practitioner (PIP), gave the bank a better deal than if they had…
A number of personal insolvency cases could now be affected by a significant ruling that a couple have no legal standing to seek a court review of KBC Banks rejection of their personal insolvency arrangement (PIA). KBC had rejected a proposed PIA sought by a couple with three young children, under which the bank would…
Buyers are likely to benefit from insolvency of developers as work is in progress and handover of completed projects is being expedited. A handful of developers in the National Capital Region have filed for insolvency. However, a majority of investors (about 90%) are still unaware of their rights as also how are they impacted in…
Billionaire Network Ten backer Bruce Gordon and the Murdoch family’s 21st Century Fox have each made last-ditch pushes to thwart the purchase of the failed network by America’s CBS. Lawyers for Mr Gordon are arguing that administrators should have considered selling the business to Mr Gordon’s private company Birketu and Lachlan Murdoch’s Illyria Nominees Television which…
Mark Sands Restructuring and recovery specialist Quantuma has appointed a new partner from Baker Tilly Creditor Services, part of RSM. Mark Sands will be based at the firm’s Brighton office but will also work across Southampton and London. He is a former president of the Insolvency Practitioners Association, sits on the personal insolvency committees of…