Haitong Bank Brings Forward Its Global Restructuring Plan – Business Wire (press release)

LISBON, Portugal–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Haitong Bank, 100% wholly owned by Haitong Securities, a company listed in the Shanghai and Hong Kong Stock Exchanges, will initiate a global restructuring plan in the beginning of March 2017, called Haitong Bank 2025. This initiative aims to align the investment Banks positioning with the new trends shaping the sector as well…

Here’s what must be done to detect, disrupt and deter phoenix activity in Australia – The Conversation AU

To stamp out illegal phoenix activity, directors should be required to have identification numbers. And, if theyve had many corporate failures, they should be classed in a new probationary category, our research shows. These are a few of several measures we have designed to detect and pre-emptively disrupt those bent on using company liquidation or…

Blog: The High Court clarifies notice of liquidations – Irish Legal News

The recent judgment in MB Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Limited (in liquidation) v- Allied Irish Bank Plc [2016] has clarified what constitutes notice of the liquidation of a company for creditors and banks alike, write Mark Woodcock (pictured right) and Joanne Cooney (pictured below) of McDowell Purcell.In this case the liquidator sought recovery of money paid out of a companys…

Repeal of Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act, 1985 – Legally India

The Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act, 1985 (SICA) was enacted to make special provisions for the timely detection of sick (and potentially sick) companies owning industrial undertakings. The Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR) was formed under the SICA to determine the sickness of such industrial companies and to prescribe measures either for…