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Lenders vote to liquidate defunct airline Go First due to low bids

A senior executive of a private bank, which has a small exposure to the airline, said voting for the proposal is through and the airline will be recommended for liquidation soon

GVK Power and Infrastructure faces insolvency proceedings on loan default

GVK Power and Infrastructure Ltd (GVKPIL) will face insolvency proceedings for failure to pay loans to lenders, a corporate insolvency court has said. The Hyderabad bench of National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) issued the order on a petition of lenders' group led by ICICI Bank Ltd, GVKPIL said in a stock exchange filing. The loan was originally availed of by GVK Coal Developers (Singapore) Pte Ltd over a decade ago, for which GVKPIL acted as a guarantor. The NCLT bench issued the order on July 12, which was made public on Monday. The petition was filed by ICICI Bank in 2022. NCLT appointed Satish Kumar Gupta as an interim resolution professional for managing the company during pendency of the insolvency. "The corporate debtor has acknowledged its liabilities and admitted the factum of corporate guarantee in its annual reports for the FYs 2018-19, 2019-20, and 2020-21. As on June 13, 2022, the borrower was liable to pay USD 1.84 billion comprising principal amount of USD 1.13 billi

Bring InvITs within ambit of bankruptcy law for recoveries: SBI MD

The long-term nature of assets has to be supported by long-term liabilities or there has to be take-out financing. This is starting to happen with the rise in Real Estate Investment Trusts and InvITs

Get InvITs under purview of bankruptcy law: SBI MD Ashwini Kumar Tewari

Infrastructure investment trusts (InvITs) are enjoying immunity from insolvency proceedings and should be brought under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, a top official from SBI said on Friday. Ashwini Kumar Tewari, the managing director of the bank, said lenders need the assurance of being able to recover their dues from InvITs in case of a default and added that they are in touch with the Reserve Bank and the government on the same. "We need to bring these trusts, which are bankruptcy remote, within the purview of the IBC because that will go a long way in giving us the assurance that this is like any other asset," Tewari said, addressing an NBFC event organized by industry lobby Assocham here. He elaborated that at present, the primary responsibility of an InvIT or a special purpose vehicle under it is towards the trust holders and there are "gaps" which need to be filled. "This space needs clarification; this space needs assurance to the lenders that in case there is a (lega

A short report card

Three successes and two failures of policy in the last five years

NCLAT upholds Jet Airways transfer of ownership to Jalan Kalrock Consortium

Insolvency appellate tribunal NCLAT on Tuesday upheld the resolution plan of grounded carrier Jet Airways and approved the transfer of its ownership to Jalan Kalrock Consortium. The NCLAT bench has directed the Jet Airways monitoring committee to complete the transfer of ownership within 90 days. Besides, it has also directed the lenders of Jet Airways to adjust the Rs 150 crore paid by the consortium as performance bank guarantee. The lenders of Jet Airways and Jalan Kalrock Consortium (JKC), the successful bidder, are in a legal tussle for more than a year over the transfer of the management of the grounded carrier. Earlier, the lenders had approached the Supreme Court, which had declined to interfere in the matter and had directed the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) to take a decision on the issue. The NCLAT directed the managing committee, consisting of lenders led by SBI, to create security on immovable properties as offered by the successful resolution applic

Banks to conduct performance review of advocates to fast-track DRT cases

Banks will conduct periodical review of the performance of empanelled advocates at debt recovery tribunals (DRTs) and rationalise the cases assigned to them based on performance, the finance ministry said on Saturday. This is part of the issues discussed at a conference of Chairpersons of Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunals (DRATs) and Presiding Officers of Debt Recovery Tribunals (DRTs) chaired by Department of Financial Services Secretary Vivek Joshi. The meeting was also attended by senior officers from the public and private sectors banks; chief executive officer (CEO), Indian Bank Association (IBA); and senior officers from the Ministry of Finance and Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI). The conference also discussed that DRTs and DRATs would take all possible steps to reduce pendency at various stages through strict monitoring. Several suggestions regarding changes and amendments in Debts Recovery Tribunal Regulations, SARFAESI Act and RDB Act discussed to make the

More disclosures, status report now part of voluntary liquidation plan

Till financial year 2022-23, 1,562 companies initiated voluntary liquidation, of which final reports were submitted in 1,039 cases and 17 of these were withdrawn, according to the IBBI data

Byju's US unit files for bankruptcy, lists liabilities of $1 bn to $10 bn

US unit of Indian education technology startup Byju's has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the U.S. court of Delaware, listing liabilities in the range of $1 billion to $10 bn

Crypto exchange FTX expects to repay customers in full: Bankruptcy lawyer

Restructuring advisers will need to examine all of the millions of claims that have been filed against FTX to weed out those that are not legitimate, lawyer Andrew Dietderich said

Courts cannot direct govt to notify law passed by Parliament, says SC

The courts cannot direct the government to notify a law passed by Parliament, the Supreme Court said on Monday while dismissing a PIL seeking implementation of certain provisions of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code. "It is up to the government to notify a law passed by Parliament. This is beyond the power of the courts. Sorry, this is in the domain of policy. We cannot direct this," a bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra said. "We cannot issue a writ of mandamus to the government that they shall notify the law," the Chief Justice said and referred to his judgment to this effect. The top court was hearing a PIL filed by one Seema B Qayyum, seeking directions to the Centre to notify one part of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code.

Resolve this: How India's insolvency process drags on, erodes asset value

Litigation tactics of corporate debtors and poor judicial infrastructure among reasons for delay

IBC yet to address resolution for insolvencies of group companies

Group insolvency remains an ill-defined area in the IBC. Here's why it needs a clear framework

Liquidation share in insolvency cases on the decline, shows IBBI data

As of the months of September 2021, September 2022 and September 2023, around 45 per cent of the total cases admitted into insolvency ended in liquidation

Debt guarantees

Supreme Court has strengthened the IBC framework

Former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann remains billionaire despite co's bankruptcy

"It has been challenging for me to watch from the sidelines as WeWork has failed to take advantage of a product that is more relevant today than ever before," Neumann, 44, said in a statement

WeWork's bankruptcy proceeding caps swift downfall for $47 billion standout

It caps a wild ride for a company that began with the idea of re-imagining staid offices as fun places to hang out and grew to a behemoth worth $47 billion at its peak

Go First lenders likely to extend deadline seeking investor interest

The resolution professional for the company, which operated the Go First carrier, had in July invited investor interest on behalf of creditors after the airline filed for insolvency in May

NCLAT to decide over NCLT order on insolvency against Coffee Day Global

An appeal has been filed before the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) challenging the NCLT order to initiate insolvency proceedings against Coffee Day Global Ltd (CDGL), which owns and operates the popular chain Cafe Coffee Day. Malavika Hegde, the suspended Director of CDGL, has approached the Chennai bench of NCLAT against the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) order to initiate Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) against Coffee Day Global. The application, seeking a stay on the NCLT order, was listed for hearing before a NCLAT bench comprising Justice Rakesh Kumar Jain and Shreesha Merla on Friday. Earlier on July 20, the Bengaluru bench of the NCLT passed an order over a plea filed by IndusInd Bank, a financial creditor of the company, claiming dues of Rs 94 crore. The NCLT had also appointed Shailendra Ajmera as the interim resolution professional after suspending the board. The order has been challenged by Malavika Hegde, a director on the suspende

J&J can't use bankruptcy to settle 100,000 baby powder cancer claims: Judge

J&J shares dropped as much as 3.4% in post-market trading following the ruling. The company vowed to appeal Judge Kaplan's ruling