Paul Muscutt and Cathryn Williams, of the Squire Patton Boggs Restructuring & Insolvency team in London, analyse the current restructuring market with Blair Nimmo, UK Head of Restructuring, KPMG.… Continue Reading
The English courts have recently wrestled with the Cross Border Insolvency Regulations 2006 (“CBIR”) in a case about the lifting of the automatic stay on proceedings against Korean company STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co Ltd In the present case (Re International Bank of Azerbaijan OJSC) the English High Court found itself dealing with the application … Continue Reading
Until recently the oil and gas sector has not been on the restructuring communities radar. However, last year global oil prices hit an all-time low, which led to a record number of insolvencies in the industry. Consequently in conjunction with Lexis Nexis we have produced the Guide to insolvency in the UK oil and gas … Continue Reading
On April 25, 2016, H.R.H. Deputy Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman announced the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia “Vision 2030”, a plan to radically transform the Kingdom’s economy in, what many commentators saw as, a response to budgetary pressures arising from the slump in crude oil prices. Vision 2030 sets out a comprehensive road map to … Continue Reading
This is the first of several posts on gathering agreements in bankruptcy, covenants running with the land and rejection claims that arise when a debtor finds gathering agreements financially burdensome. As our readers know, we waited with much anticipation for the Sabine ruling and wait with equal anticipation for the ruling on similar issues in … Continue Reading
2015 saw the global oil and gas market in turmoil and 2016 looks set to continue the trend. 16 January 2016 saw the lifting of sanctions against Iran, and critically signified its re-entry as a major OPEC player to the already saturated global oil and gas market. With the world’s fourth-biggest oil reserves, an immediate … Continue Reading
Last week our Energy Restructuring Team attended the Energy CFO Roundtable in Houston that focused on “Restructuring in the Oil Patch”. Stephen Lerner, the chair of our Restructuring & Insolvency Practice Group, was one of the panelists. In this blog we summarize some of the important takeaways from the Roundtable, along with our current thoughts … Continue Reading
Since the third quarter of 2014, the appetite for lending to small and midsized exploration and production companies (E&P Companies) has decreased substantially for several reasons. The most significant reason is the drop in oil prices to the WTI Spot close at Cushing, Oklahoma in the $35 per barrel range at the end of 2015. … Continue Reading
A district court judge in the Middle District of Pennsylvania recently vacated a bankruptcy court’s decision allowing rejection of an oil and gas lease under section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code. The District Court held that a debtor’s oil and gas lease was a conveyance of an interest in real property and not an executory … Continue Reading
On October 15, Squire Patton Boggs Partner Michael Cuda was interviewed for a segment on Bloomberg TV’s “Markets” program where he discussed the price of oil and energy credit line redeterminations. Michael, based in the Dallas office, specializes in petroleum-industry turnarounds. He said Banks that lend money to energy companies are likely to slash credit … Continue Reading
The recent TMA Global Annual Conference in Scottsdale Arizona gave us a great opportunity to meet with friends and colleagues old and new and swap intel and war stories! The buzz at the conference was around the oil and gas sector. Drilling down: Turmoil in Oil and Gas was the panel moderated by our very … Continue Reading
Michael Cuda, Max Tucker and Susan Kelly have written an article for Corporate Rescue & Insolvency analysing the increase in US oil and gas bankruptcies as a direct result of the declining oil price, and the related decrease in the borrowing base availability. This has led to a number of Chapter 11 proceedings throughout the … Continue Reading
