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Restructuring & Insolvency weekly highlights—18 December 2025 In this issue: Corporate insolvency processes Personal insolvency Restructuring Directors and insolvency Insolvency litigation Property insolvency Tax and insolvency Daily and weekly news alerts Key dates for restructuring and insolvency professionals New content Restructuring & Insolvency Highlights 2025/2026 Corporate insolvency processes Judgment Alert: Perhar v Freestone [2025] EWHC 3284 (Ch) The Chancery Division refused an application contesting the administrators’ appointments. The applicant, a director of Sustainable Bathroom Company Ltd, had secured a trade finance facility with Synergy in Trade Ltd (Synergy) to support a substantial order, granting a qualifying floating charge by debenture (the Debenture). Monies due under the order were mistakenly paid into the wrong account and were diverted to meet personal liabilities, instead of first repaying Synergy as required by the contract. After issuing repayment demands by letter and email for £376,291, Synergy proceeded in June 2023 to appoint administrators under paragraph...

This Practice Note addresses: the distinctions between amendments, waivers and consents the circumstances and reasons for seeking a waiver how to submit and respond to a waiver request factors for lenders when deciding how to reply to the request the risks to lenders of disregarding a default conditions that may accompany the grant of a waiver or consent how such arrangements ought to be documented What is the difference between amendments, waivers and consents? Fundamentally, any departure from the terms of a facility agreement requires an amendment, a waiver or the lenders’ consent. Both waivers and amendments call for lender approval. On a bilateral facility this is typically straightforward, but it becomes more involved on a syndicated transaction. Syndicated facility agreements based on Loan Market Association (LMA) documentation treat variations to any finance document as either an amendment or a waiver. Separately, some facility agreements are drafted to permit specified actions where the lender has consented, or,...