8/4/2026 4:51:06 PM UK Supreme Court Confirms Unrecognised Foreign Judgments Can Found a Bankruptcy Petition By Richard Tett Katharina Crinson Jonathan Kelly Emilio Salice +1 more... Show less Summary On 27 July 2026, the UK Supreme Court held unanimously in Drelle v Servis-Terminal LLC [2026] UKSC 29 that an unrecognised and...
7/14/2026 10:35:36 AM Minority Selecta noteholders can appeal Dutch share pledge enforcement By Huub Boekhorst Marjolein Bakker In brief In its decision of 30 June 2026, the Netherlands Commercial Court of Appeal (NCCA) ruled that certain first-lien noteholders can...
7/6/2026 10:45:45 AM Re NFE Global Holdings Limited: English Court Sanctions US$9.6 Billion Restructuring Plan for New Fortress Energy Group By Rachel Seeley Katharina Crinson Richard Tett In Re NFE Global Holdings Limited [2026] EWHC 1620 (Ch) (Cawson J, sanction judgment) and [2026] EWHC 1223 (Ch) (Hildyard J, convening...
5/6/2026 2:03:37 PM High Court sanctions Waldorf’s (second) highly contested restructuring plan By Caroline Platt Rachel Seeley Emma Gateaud Katharina Crinson +1 more... Show less Summary On 5 May 2026, Mr Justice Michael Green sanctioned the restructuring plan proposed by UK oil and gas company Waldorf Production...
4/22/2026 12:54:07 PM Liability management exercises – using disclosure as a tool By Neil Golding Emilio Salice Sunil Singh Madlyn Primoff Henry Hutten Michael Broeders Mijke Sinninghe Damsté +4 more... Show less Liability management exercises, sometimes dubbed ‘creditor-on-creditor violence’, are now a defining feature of the global restructuring...
4/17/2026 4:01:36 PM EU Inc.: the insolvency provisions of the Commission's draft 28th regime proposal By Michael Broeders Katharina Crinson Charlotte Ausema Silvia Angos Susanne Hoerrmann Simran Khan +3 more... Show less On 18 March 2026, the European Commission presented its proposal for EU Inc., an optional, digital-by-default European corporate...
4/1/2026 9:15:47 AM UK Corporate Civil Enforcement: A Broadened Enforcement Remit and New Enforcement Tools By Katharina Crinson Rachel Seeley Nicholas Cooper Craig Montgomery +1 more... Show less Summary The UK Insolvency Service published a consultation on 25 March 2026 (closing 17 June 2026) proposing the most comprehensive...
4/1/2026 7:31:00 AM EU Insolvency Law: Harmonisation Directive enters into force By Susanne Hoerrmann Charlotte Ausema Silvia Angos Antoine Rueda Simran Khan Katharina Crinson Oliver Hutton +4 more... Show less Introduction On 1 April 2026, the long-awaited Directive harmonising certain aspects of insolvency law (the Directive) entered into...
3/19/2026 11:12:22 AM Cross-Border Shareholder Loans: European Court of Justice Clarifies Equitable Subordination in German Insolvency Proceedings By Marvin Knapp Lars Westpfahl Jan-Philip Wilde Susanne Hoerrmann +1 more... Show less Shareholder loans are a common financing tool for businesses, but their treatment in insolvency proceedings, particularly across borders,...
1/23/2026 2:26:17 PM Private Capital Finance: Outlook for 2026 By Mark Davis Florian Klimscha Marvin Knapp Allison Liff Alex Mitchell Damian Ridealgh Paul Stewart Kelsey Avery Marie Boudard Catalina Ford Nina Heym Francesca Loreto Salil Navapurkar Christopher Schlöder +11 more... Show less As the private capital finance landscape and, in particular, the private credit market, continues its rapid evolution, what key themes...
12/23/2025 4:24:11 PM Restructuring – 2025 in review and predictions for 2026 By Nick Fortune Marvin Knapp Valentina Armaroli Antoine Rueda Huub Boekhorst Saya Taneja Kaitlin Bennett +4 more... Show less If recent years were marked by the development of a new generation of court-based restructuring tools, 2025 was the year they were...
11/18/2025 9:14:43 AM Wirecard insolvency: Federal Court of Justice confirms subordination of shareholder damages claims to all creditor claims in landmark insolvency ruling By Lars Westpfahl Patrick Schroeder Sonja Vidal Susanne Hoerrmann Tom Dittmar Victor Aly +3 more... Show less In its much-anticipated judgment of 13 November 2025 the German Federal Court of Justice (FCJ) held that in insolvency proceedings,...
11/11/2025 4:01:12 PM Panoramic: Restructuring & Insolvency – 2026 edition now out By Catherine Balmond Katharina Crinson Simran Khan We are pleased to announce the publication of the 2026 edition of Panoramic: Restructuring & Insolvency. Covering 39 jurisdictions, this...
11/10/2025 5:03:33 PM River Island and Poundland – a consolidated framework for the court’s exercise of cross class cram down discretion By Diallo Williams Katharina Crinson Ken Baird The UK retail sector faces ongoing challenges from shifts in consumer behaviour and persistent economic pressures. In this light, Part...
10/29/2025 10:11:53 AM Europe 2.0 – Competitive and Autonomous: Key Insights from the CEE Finance Workshop By Victoria Bazil Florian Klimscha Stephan Pachinger Anouschka Zagorski Eva Schneider Maximilian Hohenauer Maximilian Ihra Aylin Bektasli Florian Braunauer +6 more... Show less On 23 October 2025, the Freshfields Vienna team welcomed legal experts and financial leaders to its Vienna office for its 17th annual CEE...
10/7/2025 10:43:26 AM Practice Statement 2.0: A significant milestone for Part 26 Schemes / Part 26A Plans? By Jack Vaughan Sunil Singh Katharina Crinson Craig Montgomery +1 more... Show less Introduction Changes are afoot to Court rules for English in-court restructuring processes to make them fit for the future. On 18...