Mexican Legal Framework of Business Insolvency - White & Case
Mexican Legal Framework of Business Insolvency - White & Case
Mexican Legal Framework of Business Insolvency - White & Case
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Granting <strong>of</strong> collateral or additional collateral if not originally contemplated<br />
in the transaction documents.<br />
Payments-in-kind if such method <strong>of</strong> payment was not originally agreed to<br />
in the transaction documents.<br />
iv. Subjective Preferences<br />
Transactions carried out between the debtor and its related parties during the<br />
retroactive period shall be set aside if made in bad faith. Bad faith is rebuttably<br />
presumed [LCM 116 and 117].<br />
Related parties <strong>of</strong> an individual debtor include (1) his/her spouse, concubine, blood<br />
relatives up to the fourth degree, in-law relatives up to the second degree, and<br />
adopted relatives; and (2) commercial companies in which the debtor or any <strong>of</strong><br />
the persons mentioned in (1) is the manager or director, or directly or indirectly,<br />
together or alone, own more than 51 percent <strong>of</strong> the outstanding equity capital or<br />
have decision-making powers at the shareholders’ meetings, are entitled to appoint a<br />
majority <strong>of</strong> the directors or are otherwise entitled to make fundamental decisions for<br />
such companies. It is unclear why the definition <strong>of</strong> related parties in (2) above includes<br />
only commercial companies and not other types <strong>of</strong> entities such as civil partnerships<br />
or trusts, and whether the courts have any equitable powers to expand the concept to<br />
include them.<br />
Related parties <strong>of</strong> an entity debtor include (1) a manager or director; (2) the spouse,<br />
concubine, blood relatives up to the fourth degree, in-law relatives up to the second<br />
degree, and adopted relatives <strong>of</strong> a manager or director; (3) individuals who directly or<br />
indirectly, together or alone, own more than 51percent <strong>of</strong> such entity’s outstanding<br />
equity capital or have decision-making powers at its shareholders’ meetings, are<br />
entitled to appoint a majority <strong>of</strong> its directors or are otherwise entitled to make<br />
fundamental decisions for such entity; (4) entities sharing managers, directors or<br />
principal <strong>of</strong>ficers; and (5) entities that control, are controlled by or are under common<br />
control <strong>of</strong> the debtor.<br />
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