United Kingdom: Financial Restructuring

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Understanding Cross-border Asset-based Lending
Steven Geerlings shares insights from his extensive international career in asset-based lending, spanning work across the UK, Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. Drawing on experience managing multi-billion euro transactions for Deutsche Bank and navigating complex cross-border finance structures, he explores the operational and legal challenges that arise when lending against assets across multiple European jurisdictions. The discussion reveals how evolving regulations and practical expertise are reshaping
United Kingdom Finance
HCR Law
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Stress To Success: Key Takeaways From Our Opportunistic Credit Seminar
Macfarlanes and PwC explore the evolving opportunistic credit market, examining how investors navigate competitive financing landscapes, identify investable opportunities amid sector-specific stress, and deploy sophisticated structuring tools to protect downside risk. The discussion reveals critical insights on pricing discipline, early intervention strategies, and the expanding toolkit available to credit investors managing complex situations.
United Kingdom Finance
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Macfarlanes LLP
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Recent Changes To UK Tax Clearance For Restructuring
Recent UK Budget 2025 reforms have fundamentally altered the tax clearance regime for corporate restructurings, removing the explicit "bona fide commercial reasons" test and the 5% shareholder exemption while introducing new counteraction powers. These changes require businesses to provide more robust documentation of commercial objectives and prepare for heightened scrutiny from HMRC when seeking clearance for transactions including share exchanges, demergers, and company reconstructions.
United Kingdom Tax
GGI Global Alliance
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The Iran War Will Generate A Global Tide Of Multi-jurisdictional Restructurings And Insolvencies: What Are The Challenges For Businesses And Advisors Worldwide?
Geopolitical tensions in the Middle East are creating unprecedented challenges for businesses worldwide, driving up restructuring risks through volatile commodity prices, disrupted supply chains, and complex sanctions compliance. As companies face liquidity squeezes and covenant pressures across multiple jurisdictions, understanding the intricacies of cross-border insolvency has become essential for survival in an increasingly uncertain global economy.
Global Insolvency
GGI Global Alliance
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A New Approach To Challenges To CVAs? Advocate General For Scotland v Petrofac Facilities Management Ltd
The Court of Session has taken a novel approach to assessing unfair prejudice in CVA challenges, moving beyond traditional vertical and horizontal comparisons to consider broader equitable factors. This first reported Scottish decision in such circumstances could make predicting CVA challenge outcomes significantly more difficult if the approach is adopted in future cases.
United Kingdom Insolvency
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Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP
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UK Turnaround And Restructuring Update: June 2026
As the UK Turnaround & Restructuring practice reaches mid-2026, market activity has accelerated sharply amid persistent disruption and unsettled macroeconomic conditions. This newsletter examines the firm's global expansion, including new offices in Sydney and the acquisition of Canadian advisory firm KSV, while exploring AI's growing impact on Software-as-a-Service and emerging priorities for private equity sponsors and financial stakeholders.
United Kingdom Insolvency
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AlixPartners
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