[Saurav Roy is a final-year law student [V B.A.LL.B] at ILS Law College, Pune] On 2 April 2019, a Supreme Court bench of Justice Rohinton Nariman and Justice Vineet Saran delivered a landmark judgement in the case of Dharani Sugars and Chemicals Ltd. v. Union of India which deals with the pertinent issue of a controversial circular issued on 12 February 2018 titled “Resolution of Stressed Assets...
Delimiting the Boundaries: Settlement Plan under the Insolvency Regime
[Varsha Gupta and Tushar Behl are 4th year students at the School of Law, UPES, Dehradun] The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 was enacted with the objective of facilitating time-bound resolution of corporate persons, among others, for maximizing the value of assets of such persons. Considering the resolution objective of the Code, section 12A was introduced through the Insolvency and...
Successful Bidder, Failed Resolution: Analyzing the Lacuna in the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016
[Siddharth Kumar is a student at Vivekananda School of Law and Legal Studies, New Delhi and Aditya Prasad at Jindal Global Law School, Sonepat. They are also Editor and Associate Editor respectively of the CorpLexia Blawg] The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 has arguably been one of the foremost developments in the Indian financial laws in recent times. While the Code has proven to be (or...
Entity versus Enterprise: Dealing with Insolvency of Corporate Groups
[Vinod Kothari and Sikha Bansal are with Vinod Kothari & Company. The can be reached at [email protected]] Present-day businesses sweep across multiple entities, such that the “enterprise” consisting of multiple entities, often in multiple jurisdictions, is referred to as a “group”. While accounting standards and securities market regulators have moved on to the concept of “business...
Consideration of Improved Financial Offer in the Insolvency Resolution Process
[Varsha Gupta is a 4th-year law student at the School of Law, UPES, Dehradun] Introduction After the approval of the resolution plan of JSW Steel in the Bhushan Power & Steel Limited, Tata Steel Limited, one of the resolution applicants challenged the submission of an improved financial offer. In Tata Steel Limited v. Liberty House Group Pte. Ltd., Tata Steel Limited argued that the National...
Double Claim by a Creditor
[Richa Saraf is a Legal Advisor at Vinod Kothari & Co.] In Dr. Vishnu Kumar Agarwal v. Piramal Enterprises Ltd. (January 2019), the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) held that multiple applications for initiation of corporate insolvency resolution process for the very same debt or claim is not permissible. Now, consider a situation where Company A (guarantor) has guaranteed the...
Relief for Distressed under the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code
[Utkarsh Jhingan is a fourth year BA LLB (Hons.) student and Rakshit Raj Singh a third year BA LLB (Hons.) student at NUALS, Kochi] India’s corporate sector debt has become a cause for concern as the mounting debts of major companies are at an unsustainable level. In recent years some of the companies have been entangled in a debt trap as their debt payment requirements have grown at a higher...
Can a Resolution Professional Initiate Insolvency Resolution on behalf of a Corporate Debtor?
[Ajay Sharma is a 4th Year B.A.LL.B (Hons.) student at the National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi] Introduction The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 has been undergoing a crucial jurisprudential evolution. From the very inception of the Code, it is appreciable that the Government and the adjudicating authorities have been seeking to resolve all the issues through amendments or...
Corporate Insolvency and the Creditor-Guarantor Dilemma
[Akash Santosh Loya is a final year student of the 5-year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) course at the National University of Advanced Legal Studies] Introduction There have been a number of decisions dealing with the rights of a creditor vis-à-vis guarantor under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC). The adjudicating authorities have provided sufficient clarity on myriad issues ranging from...
Constitutionality of IBC viz-a-viz Operational Creditors: Swiss Ribbons Judgment
[Ashish Rana is an Advocate on Record in the Supreme Court of India] This post is in continuation from my previous post “Binani Judgment: Ray of Hope for Operational Creditors”. Recently, in Swiss Ribbons vs. Union of India, the Supreme Court has upheld the constitutional validity of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 against various challenges. In this post, I shall be dealing only with...
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