On 11 June 2024, Mr. Justice Leech handed down a landmark UK judgment relating to wrongful trading and misfeasance against the former directors of the
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Rupert Cheetham has a broad practice involving restructuring, insolvency and general finance transactions. Rupert advises on fully consensual work-out refinancing transactions, restructuring procedures such as UK schemes of arrangement, restructuring plans and company voluntary arrangements (CVAs), and formal insolvency proceedings. Rupert acts for banks, funds and other financial institutions, as well as sponsors, corporates, directors and insolvency practitioners.
Rupert is recognised for Restructuring & Insolvency in the 2024 edition of The Legal 500 UK, where he is described as “very experienced and solutions-oriented” and lauded for being “a good leader to the team.”
On 11 June 2024, Mr. Justice Leech handed down a landmark UK judgment relating to wrongful trading and misfeasance against the former directors of the…
Continue Reading English Courts Introduce Novel Concept of ‘Trading Misfeasance’On 4 March 2024, Mr Justice Richards of the English High Court delivered a judgment (the Judgment) in relation to the sanction of the restructuring…
Continue Reading English High Court Decision in Relation to Sanction of Fürst Part 26A Restructuring PlanTo modernise the restructuring toolkit available to special administrators, the UK government has introduced changes to the English special administration regime (SAR)1 for distressed…
Continue Reading Changes to the Special Administration Regime for UK Water Companies‘Tis the season for giving, and the recent UK Supreme Court decision in R (on the application of Palmer) v Northern Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court and…
Continue Reading Guilty or Not Guilty: UK Supreme Court Decides Fate of Administrator Appointed Under Insolvency ActIn BTI 2014 LLC v. Sequana S.A. [2022] UKSC 25 (Sequana) the UK’s highest court, the Supreme Court (the Court), has considered for the first…
Continue Reading UK Supreme Court Confirms Existence of Directors’ Duties to CreditorsOn 30 March 2022 the English High Court sanctioned a restructuring plan proposed by Smile Telecoms Holdings Limited pursuant to Part 26A of the Companies…
Continue Reading Smile Telecoms Restructuring Plan Sanctioned by Lord Justice Snowden – A Number of Restructuring Plan ‘Firsts’ Established
The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act (CIGA) came into force on 26 June 2020, introducing a number of permanent and temporary changes to the UK’s
A comparison of the new Dutch Scheme and the new UK Restructuring Plan.
The European restructuring landscape continues to evolve with the recent introduction of
On 26 June 2020, the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act (CIG Act) came into force which introduced fundamental changes to the UK’s company and insolvency
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Continue Reading The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020: Changes to UK Insolvency Laws