Greensill Capital Faces Possible Insolvency After Credit Suisse Suspends Investment Funds – The Wall Street Journal

Specialty finance firm Greensill Capital headed toward a rapid unraveling after Credit Suisse Group AG suspended $10 billion of investment funds that fueled the SoftBank Group Corp. -backed startup. With a key source of financing frozen, Greensill has appointed Grant Thornton to guide it through a possible restructuring, and it could file for insolvency, the…

Cheque dishonor cases can’t be filed or continued against firms facing insolvency proceedings: SC – Economic Times

The Supreme Court Monday held the cheque bounce cases can neither be instituted nor be continued against companies which are facing insolvency proceedings and are protected under a provision of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) putting a moratorium on legal proceedings against them. The top court, however, did not extend the benefit of moratorium on…

PPF publishes Insolvency Act interim guidance – Pensions Age

The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has published interim guidance on the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 around the newly-introduced concepts of moratorium and financial difficulty mitigation arrangements. Under the act, a moratorium can be initiated by the directors of a company that, among other things, suspends payments of most historic debts and prevents action…

R3 North East comments on official monthly corporate insolvency statistics – Bdaily

Member Article Commenting on the official Insolvency Service figures for January showing a 39.1% month-on-month fall in the number of UK corporate insolvencies, Alexandra Withers, North East chair of insolvency and restructuring trade body R3, said: Januarys fall in corporate insolvency numbers dont reflect the fact that the economic fallout from the pandemic is continuing…