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Ignacio Buil Aldana Act 14/2013, of September 27 2013, favouring entrepreneurs and their internationalisation (the Act), has introduced a wide range of reforms on several insolvency, corporate, tax and labour matters. Regarding insolvencies, the Act (among other changes) significantly reduces the quorum of financial creditors required for court-sanctioned refinancing agreements. It also includes a new out-of-court device in order for debtors and creditors to reach payment agreements binding dissident creditors. With respect to the court-sanctioned refinancing (the so called Spanish scheme), the Act lowers the 75% (of financial debt) support threshold required under additional provision 4 of the Insolvency Act to court-sanction a refinancing agreement to a mere 55%. Further, the Act clarifies that that quorum be superimposed on the quorum required for refinancing agreements under article 71.6 of the Insolvency Act (60% of total debt, including financial debt), in line with both doctrine and case law. This reform is aimed at facilitating Spanish schemes by simplifying and lowering the threshold to reach the relevant majorities. This, of course, may have an effect on existing and future Spanish restructurings even if other key issues such as the ability to cram-down secured creditors is still uncertain, despite relevant developments in this regard (such as the Celsa case).

On July 22 2013, the new EU regime on licensing and supervision of alternative investment funds (AIFs) took effect, as Delegated Regulation (231/2013) supplementing the Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers (2011/61/EU) (the AIFMD) entered into force. Cyprus had already transposed the AIFMD into national law earlier in July, in the form of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Law of 2013 (Law 56(I) of 2013: the AIFM Law).

John Breslin The Irish Parliament passed the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 (the Act) in December 2012, as part of its commitment to reform key areas of Irish law in the context of troika funding. It is being implemented over the course of 2013, and is not yet fully in force. The Act represents a major reform of personal insolvency law, creating new processes as an alternative to bankruptcy. The suitability of any of the new processes in a given situation will depend on the level of the debt, and whether it is secured or unsecured. The Act also makes fundamental changes to bankruptcy law in Ireland. It has significant implications for banks holding or purchasing distressed assets. The highlights of the Act are as follows:

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Isil Ökten Tolga Çabakli Debt assumption mechanisms constitute one of the major issues for lenders in public-private partnership (PPP) projects, and have been recently revisited by the Turkish Parliament to ensure certainty, clarity and sustainability in this respect. In March 2013, Act 4749 on Public Finance and Debt Management (the Public Finance Act) has been amended by Law 6428. The new article (8/A) of the Public Finance Act enables a treasury debt assumption mechanism for certain PPP projects on the following conditions: