Cross border restructuring and insolvency – key traps

Where a company or corporate group operates in multiple jurisdictions, any restructuring will need to be planned carefully in order to be both successful and cost effective, explain Christopher Boardman QC of Radcliffe Chambers and Alexandra Wood of Mayer Brown 

In a cross border situation, directors will need to understand both English domestic insolvency procedures (such as administration and company voluntary arrangement under the Insolvency Act 1986) and restructuring tools (such as schemes of arrangement and restructuring plans under the Companies Act 2006) and the processes available in the key jurisdictions in which the company and its wider group operate or to which they have a connection.

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