Tag: Insolvency
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Substance vs. Form Conflict in True Sale | Hong Kong Court Goes by the Language Used by the Parties
[Posted by Umakanth Varottil] (The following post is contributed by Soma Bagaria, who is a Legal Advisor at Vinod Kothari & Company in Kolkata. She can be reached at soma@vinodkothari.com) In every assignment transaction, there has been a constant conflict of whether the substance or form shall dominate while determining the nature of a transaction.…
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The Romalpa Clause and Bankruptcy Protection
[Posted by V. Niranjan] To a supplier or, more generally, to any commercial entity involved in the initial stages of a supply chain, protecting itself in the event of the bankruptcy or change in constitution of its principal buyers is a matter of great importance. It is therefore commonplace to find clauses in a contract…