[Kanishka Aswal and Ritik Jhanwar are III year students at the Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar. This post was first published here] One of the ultimate goals of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (“IBC”) is to provide a mechanism for the timely resolution of a corporate debtor’s insolvency in order to maximize the value of its assets, to facilitate credit facility and to...
Online Certificate Course: Evolving Paradigms of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016
[Announcement on behalf of the Centre for Insolvency and Bankruptcy Studies, National Law University Jodhpur] The Centre for Insolvency and Bankruptcy Studies, National Law University Jodhpur, is organising a Three-Day Online Certificate Course on ‘Evolving Paradigms of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016’ in collaboration with the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India from 25 February 2023...
Asset Reconstruction Companies as Resolution Applicants: Revisiting the SARFAESI’s Limitations
[Arshit Kapoor and Srilagna Dash are 5th year B.B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) and 3rd year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) students, respectively at National Law University Odisha, Cuttack] Asset Reconstruction Companies (“ARCs”) are financial institutions which reconstruct and securitise bad assets of banks and financial institutions. They are regulated by the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and...
Landowners’ Plight Under the IBC
[Gaurav Mitra is an Independent Practitioner (LLM, University of Cambridge; BCL, University of Oxford), and Lavanya Pathak is an Associate at Chambers of Gaurav Mitra (LLM, University of Cambridge)] Courts have always strived to balance the interests of all parties involved in the proceedings under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (“IBC”). Particularly in reference to builder-buyer...
‘Beneficial Owner’ is not a ‘Related Party’ under the IBC
[Tejas A. Jha is an Advocate, practicing in New Delhi] Recently, a major cause of concern has been highlighted by legal experts in regard to financial creditors seeking to invoke pledged shares in the corporate debtor. The concern is that when the said pledged shares are invoked, the financial creditor’s seat in the committee of creditors of the corporate debtor (“CoC”) may be put to challenge on...
Supreme Court Invokes Article 142 to Permit Withdrawal of CIRP
[Raghav Bhatia is an Advocate, currently practising at the Supreme Court of India & the Delhi High Court. He can be contacted at [email protected]] Recently, the Supreme Court of India (“Supreme Court”) in Amit Katyal v. Meera Ahuja permitted the parties to settle the matter and withdraw the CIRP proceedings by invoking article 142 of the Constitution of India (“Constitution”). The...
Supreme Court Holds Tax Authorities to be Secured Creditors: Quandary Revived
[Sikha Bansal is a Partner and Neha Sinha an Executive at Vinod Kothari & Company. They can be reached at [email protected]] Earlier this week, in State Tax Officer v. Rainbow Papers Limited (6 September 2022), the Supreme Court (‘SC’) dealt with the question whether the provisions of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (‘IBC’), especially section 53, overrides section 48 of the...
SSB Retail India: Analyzing the Need to Safeguard the Scheme of the IBC
[Prakriti is a third-year student at the Hidayatullah National Law University] The enactment of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) was an active step by the legislature to provide a consolidated law for reorganization and insolvency resolution in India. It was an attempt to scrap the earlier existing defaulters’ paradise in India. The IBC has successfully pushed India upwards in the...
Enhanced Minimum Amount of Default under IBC – Retrospective or Prospective?
[Ashwin Bala Someshwerar is an LL.M. Student at TNNLU, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu.] The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) issued a notification on 24 March 2020 (hereafter, ‘the notification’) enhancing the minimum amount of default under the proviso to section 4 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) from one lakh rupees to one crore rupees. The notification does not mention the...
Unpaid License Fees as ‘Operational Debt’: The Ambiguity Persists
[Soundarya Rajagopal and Palak Sheth are 4th year B.Com. LL.B. (Hons.) students at Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar] In Jaipur Trade Expocentre Pvt. Ltd. v. Metro Jet Airways Training Pvt. Ltd. (“Jaipur Trade”), a full-bench of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (“NCLAT”) held that dues in relation to lease and license of immovable property constitute ‘operational debt’ under...
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