NEW CHALLENGES IN THE IBC WATERFALL MECHANISM
A key element that differentiates the IBC from previous legislation governing corporate insolvency is the distribution waterfall in the event of liquidation.
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Are Corporate Guarantors equivalent to Corporate Debtors
The Supreme Court has made an attempt to shed light on this matter recently in K. Paramasivan v. The Karur Vysya Bank Ltd. An appeal is preferred before the apex court under which the NCLAT decision is challenged.
IBC Overrides the Limitation Act
In the recent case given by the retired Hon’ble Supreme court Judge CJI Ramana. He said that in case of any conflict, the IBC will override the Customs Acts.
SC resorts to Article 142 of the Constitution to cut short IBC technicalities to benefit home-buyers
The Apex Court used its authority under Article 142 to allow the CIRP proceedings to be withdrawn and to adjudicate all outstanding issues between the parties in the greater interest of the homebuyers.
Operational Debt Includes Advance Payment Made to a Corporate Debtor for the supply of Goods or Services: SC
A debt arising from an advance payment given to a corporate debtor for the supply of goods or services would be deemed an operational debt.
Landowner in a development agreement cannot be considered a Financial Creditor
The Corporate Debtor would carry on construction and out of total saleable construction 32% will be of landowner and remaining 68% will be of the Corporate Debtor.
Water connection cannot be restored automatically to the successful resolution applicant
The Successful Resolution Applicant requested Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (hereinafter referred to as MIDC) for a new water connection to revive the operations at the plant of the Corporate Debtor.
Wages/salaries of only those employees who worked during the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process are to be included in CIRP costs, rules SC
The claims filed/to be submitted by the workers of the appellant must be decided upon and taken into consideration by the Liquidator even if RP has not submitted the claims towards the wages/salaries as part of CIRP costs.
No bar to withdraw admitted CIRP application before constitution of the committee of creditors: Supreme Court
The withdrawal of an application for CIRP by the applicant would not prevent any other financial creditor from taking recourse to a proceeding under IBC.
Analysis of the Pre-Packaged Insolvency Resolution Process and its advantages as compared to the CIRP
The Pre-Packaged Insolvency Resolution Process (PPIRP) mechanism have helped the MSMEs to a great extent in order to revive their operations as a going concern.
When COC approves a resolution plan it is presumed to be viable and feasible
When a Resolution Plan is approved by the CoC in its commercial wisdom, it has to be presumed that the approval was given to a viable and feasible plan. Once approved, the Tribunal cannot interfere with the commercial wisdom.
Supremacy of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code
The code has helped the creditors to recover their amount from defunct companies and bring them back to their actual position. IBC was introduced so as to reduce India’s long-standing problem of NPAs.
Rejection of ‘Date of Knowledge’ Argument: Supreme Court
The recent judgment of the Apex Court in the case of Safire Technologies (Supra) simply expands this explanation to Section 61 of the IBC and discards the contentions that the time period for the limitation shall start running from the date of knowledge of the order.
Mobilization Advance is Financial Debt or Operational Debt?
Mobilization Advance is an Operational Debt and not a Financial Debt referring to the abovementioned Supreme Court Judgement.
Parties other than those who triggered CIRP cannot be creditors
There is no such provision to implead creditors other than the ones which triggered the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process.
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