Lenders bank on SC and RBI’s direction to justify JAL’s admission into insolvency

Jaiprakash Associates Limited’s (JAL) lenders Tuesday informed the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) that the Supreme Court and Reserve Bank had directed the initiation of the insolvency resolution process against the company. Further, the lenders argued that JAL had a debt and committed default, which warrants its resolution under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code,…

Thousands more companies fall into insolvency

The number of companies that have gone insolvent over the past year has exceeded the number that failed during the global financial crisis in 2008. In the year to the end of July, 25,551 companies fell into insolvency, a figure 1.4 per cent higher than the 25,186 insolvencies recorded over the same period in 2008-09.…