Corporate Guarantees Constitute Financial Debt Under IBC: Supreme Court Quashes NCLT/NCLAT Orders Excluding SBI Consortium
The Supreme Court of India has held that liabilities arising from corporate guarantees squarely fall within the ambit of “financial debt” under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), 2016. A Bench comprising Justice Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Justice Alok Aradhe set aside the concurrent findings of the NCLT and NCLAT, which had previously derecognized the…

