ICSM Sports Business Insolvency News: the bizarre double standards when football clubs go bust compared to the fortunes of the average SME

By Harry Mottram: The owners of high street shops, manufacturing outfits, logistic companies and Britain’s many thousands of SMEs must scratch their heads when they look at what has happened to Sheffield Wednesday FC this year. Insolvent, in administration and up for sale with £80m of debt, surely the club would have to be liquidated? Not…

The business case for trading out of planetary insolvency

Earth Overshoot Day is calculated by the Global Footprint Network using UN and other official datasets to estimate two big numbers: the Earth’s annual “biocapacity” (how much biological resource nature can renew in a year) and humanity’s ecological footprint (our demand for land, food, energy and materials during the same period). Dividing one by the…

Panel makes dedicated IBC benches at NCLT mandatory

The Joint Committee of Parliament on the Corporate Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026 has recommended that dedicated IBC benches at the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) for insolvency cases be constituted as a binding statutory obligation rather than left to administrative discretion, and has doubled the monetary threshold for summary liquidation to Rs 2 crore. In…

Final Bell files for bankruptcy with $46.6 million owed

Final Bell Holdings International Ltd., a Vancouver-based cannabis services and hardware company, made a voluntary assignment in bankruptcy on July 28, 2026. Its statement of affairs lists approximately $46.6 million in liabilities against assets with an estimated realizable value of $3, leaving a deficiency of approximately $46.6 million. Almost the entire debt is attributed to…

Ontario construction-component group enters receivership with $19.2 million stalking horse bid

1001281812 Ontario Inc., operating as TNP Panel Company, and related companies TRS Components Ltd., Plant 22 Ltd. and 976711 Ontario Inc., operating as Terra Nova Truss (collectively, the “TRS Companies”), were placed into receivership on July 31, 2026. Celina Capital Corporation brought the receivership application in respect of TNP, while Bank of Montreal brought the…