The Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process has to be completed in 180 days along with the provision of 90 days of extension or maximum allowed time is 270 days.

The powers of the management of controlling the assets of the Corporate Debtor or Company is transferred to the Resolution Professional or the liquidator as the case may be.

The insolvency and bankruptcy code, 2016 has seen many ups and downs since the enactment but out of all the most long and debatable topic or issue concerning law was pertaining to the rights of Home buyers/Allottee under the code.

The code is not applicable to corporates in finance sector. Thus no petition shall be entertained by NCLT filed against Banks, Financial Institutions, Insurance Company, Asset Reconstruction Company, Asset Reconstruction Company, Mutual Funds, Collective Investment Schemes or Pension Funds.

When the corporate debtor starts making default in the payment of the amount to its creditors and it goes on for some time, subsequently that corporate debtor/company is deemed as insolvent.

In case of financial creditor being an applicant to the insolvency process, an application would be made to Adjudicating Authority and a copy of such application would be sent to the corporate debtor.

operational creditors are those creditors where liabilities arise from transactions on operations.

Reserve Bank of India Governor Urjit Patel put his signature to a historic order for recovering over Rs 3 lakh crore from the top 12 defaulters, just 10% is in banks

Nirav Modi scam and the ICICI Bank controversy were amongst the top notch cases that the NCLT is dealing with and Government is taking keen interest in resolving these issues.

Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) controversial February 12 circular that bankruptcy proceedings will kick in 180 days.

Liquidation of corporate person is considered to be the last resort in order to recover money. When all the plan of resolution have failed and no other way could be adopted then dissolution of company is done.

The government has made it clear that it doesn’t want any defaulting promoters back until they clear their dues.

According to the terms of loan resolution in the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, the first preference on recovery is to secured financial creditors, followed by unsecured financial creditors, and then operational creditors.

Insolvency Code has motivated a lot of lenders to suo moto move the court against their borrowers and recover their bad debts without showing any further leniency.

The recent amendments in the bankruptcy resolution framework will help reduce timelines, enhance transparency and improve realisations.