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Restructuring & Insolvency: DMCC Act; after-acquired property; funding termination clauses; Re C-Retail plan; paid-up secured creditor consent; Re UKCloud floating charge; insolvency practitioner fee rise; s340 preference guidance

Published on: 06 June 2024

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Restructuring & Insolvency weekly highlights—6 June 2024

In this issue:

  • Key R&I law developments
  • Insolvency litigation
  • Restructuring
  • Corporate insolvency processes
  • The office-holder
  • Daily and weekly news alerts
  • New content

Key R&I law developments

Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024

This Act introduces regulation of competition within digital markets, revises the Competition Act 1998 and the Enterprise Act 2002 with additional competition law measures, and enhances consumer protection by providing and extending rights, together with related purposes. Certain provisions took effect on 24 May 2024; the remainder will commence on a day set by Regulations made by the Secretary of State. See: LNB News 04/06/2024 9.

Insolvency litigation

Monies paid to a bankrupt’s son were after-acquired property (Hyde v Djurberg)

It is uncommon for a bankrupt to receive a significant payment that a trustee in bankruptcy may claim as after-acquired property. Rarer still is an instance where such a payment is received and the bankrupt then exhausts every avenue to conceal it from the trustee. This was just such a case. The court held that a sum...

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