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Chapter III

368D. Power of Court to cram down

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(1)

This section applies where—

(a)

a compromise or arrangement between a company and its creditors or any class of those creditors has been voted on at a relevant meeting;

(b)

the creditors meant to be bound by the compromise or arrangement are placed in two or more classes of creditors for the purpose of voting on the compromise or arrangement at the relevant meeting;

(c)

the conditions in subsection 366(3), in so far as they are applicable, are satisfied at the relevant meeting in respect of at least one class of creditors; and

(d)

the conditions in subsection 366(3), in so far as they are applicable, are not satisfied at the relevant meeting in respect of at least one class of creditors, each called in this section a dissenting class.

(2)

Notwithstanding subsections 366(1) and (3), the Court may, subject to this section and on the application of the company, or a creditor of the company who has obtained the leave of the Court to make an application under this subsection, approve the compromise or arrangement, and order that the company and all classes of creditors concerned shall be bound by the compromise or arrangement.

(3)

The Court may make an order under subsection (2) if—

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(a)

a majority of seventy‑five per centum of the total value of creditors or class of creditors or members or class of members who were meant to be bound by the compromise or arrangement, and who were present and voting either in person or by proxy at the relevant meeting, have agreed to the compromise or arrangement; and

(b)

the Court is satisfied that the compromise or arrangement does not discriminate unfairly between two or more classes of creditors and is fair and equitable to each dissenting class.

(4)

For the purposes of paragraph (3)(b), a compromise or arrangement is fair and equitable to a dissenting class if the following conditions are fulfilled:

(a)

no creditor in the dissenting class receives, under the terms of the compromise or arrangement, an amount that is lower than the amount to be received by the creditor as estimated by the Court in the most likely scenario if the compromise or arrangement does not become binding on the company and all classes of creditors concerned meant to be bound by the compromise or arrangement; and

(b)

either of the following applies:

(i)

where the creditors in the dissenting class are secured creditors, the terms of the compromise or arrangement—

(A)

shall provide for each creditor in the dissenting class to receive deferred cash payments totalling the amount of the creditor’s claim that is secured by the security held by the creditor, and preserve that security and the extent of that claim, whether or not the property subject to that security is to be retained by the company or transferred to another entity under the terms of the compromise or arrangement;

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(B)

shall provide that where the security held by any creditor in the dissenting class to secure the creditor’s claim is to be realised by the company free of encumbrances, the creditor has a charge over the proceeds of the realisation to satisfy the creditor’s claim that is secured by that security; or

(C)

shall provide that each creditor in the dissenting class is entitled to realise the indubitable value equivalent to the security held by the creditor in order to satisfy the creditor’s claim that is secured by that security; or

(ii)

where the creditors in the dissenting class are unsecured creditors, the terms of the compromise or arrangement—

(A)

shall provide for each creditor in that class to receive property of a value equal to the amount of the creditor’s claim; or

(B)

shall not provide for any creditor with a claim that is subordinate to the claim of a creditor in the dissenting class, or any member, to receive or retain any property on account of the subordinate claim or the member’s interest.

(5)

The Court may require the insolvency practitioner appointed under subsection 367(3) to assist the Court in estimating the amount that a creditor is expected to receive in the most likely scenario if the compromise or arrangement does not become binding on the company and all class of creditors meant to be bound by the compromise or arrangement.

(6)

In this section, “relevant meeting” means—

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(a)

where the compromise or arrangement in question is subject to a revote under subsection 369A(1), the meeting held for that purposes; or

(b)

the meeting ordered by the Court under subsection 366(1) or, if that meeting is adjourned under subsection 366(2), the adjourned meeting.

Report

Part IV

Cessation of Companies

Part V

Miscellaneous

Schedules