New lifelines for distressed companies

CORPORATE defaults and insolvencies are ratcheting up as the Covid-19 crisis continues to hurt companies across the business spectrum. Singapore's new insolvency laws, amalgamated in the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act (IRDA) that came into force just a fortnight ago, could not have come at a better time.

Focused on better facilitation of debt restructuring, the reformed regulations also act to discourage winding up, giving distressed companies a better shot at being rescued. In Brunch this Saturday in The Business Times Weekend, we break down the new Act and its implications.

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