The company sought approval of a proposed reconstruction under the section.
Held: Approval could not be given. To count as a reconstruction two principal qualities were required. The business carried on should be the same or similar, and those carrying on the business should be the same or similar. Here the proposal would result in the former shareholders owning only 4% of the new business.
Judges:
Mann J
Citations:
[2004] EWHC 2741 (Ch), Times 30-Nov-2004
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Citing:
Cited – In the Matter of Telewest Communications Plc and in the Matter of Telewest Finance (Jersey) Ltd ChD 22-Jun-2004
Richards J said: ‘In considering the primary position of the Opposing Bondholders, it is important to keep in mind the function of the court at this stage. This is an application by the companies for leave to convene meetings to consider the . .
Cited – Hooper v Western Counties and South Wales Telephone Co Ltd 1892
The court placed a restrictive meaning on the idea of a company reconstruction. The new company is to consist of the old shareholders. . .
Cited – Practice Statement (Companies Schemes of Arrangement) 2002
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Cited – Swithland Investments Ltd v IRC 1990
The court considered whether a scheme of re-arrangement of a company was a reconstruction within the meaning of the Stamp duty legislation. . .
Cited – Re South African Supply and Cold Storage Co 1904
The court had to construe the words ‘reconstruction or amalgamation’ in the memorandum of association of a company: ‘The only question I have to decide is whether, in the case of each of these two companies, there has or has not been a winding-up . .
Cited – Brooklands Selangor Holdings Limited v Inland Revenue Commissioners ChD 1970
The court had to consider whether the arrangments before it amounted to a reconstruction for stamp duty purposes: ‘I will deal first with the question whether those transactions amounted to a reconstruction. In ordinary speech the word . .
Cited – Baytrust Holdings Ltd v Inland Revenue Commissioners 1971
Whether a scheme of arrangement constituted a reconstruction for stamp duty purposes. . .
Cited – In re Courage Group’s Pension Schemes Ryan v Imperial Brewing and Leisure Ltd ChD 1987
It was possible to amend the provisions of a pension scheme provided the amendments did not conflict with the purposes of the scheme. How was a court to identify such purposes: ‘It is trite law that a power can be exercised only for the purpose for . .
Cited – Fallon v Fellows (Inspector of Taxes) ChD 2001
The court considered whether a scheme was for the purposes of reconstruction or amalgamation in a capital gains tax context. Citing South African Supply: ‘In the context I think it is clear that when the learned judge referred to the persons . .
Cited – Oswald Tillotson Limited v ORC 1933
‘When I come to consider the purpose of this section, and to see why there is to be immunity and exemption from transfer stamp duty, I find that it is because the old company is really represented or replaced by the new company, and the shareholders . .
Cited – Re Tea Corporation CA 1904
A scheme was proposed in a liquidation and a meeting of, inter alia, ordinary shareholders was proposed, who were to be given shares in the new company in place of their shares in the old, so to that extent they were affected by the scheme. The . .
Cited – In re British and Commonwealth plc (No 3) ChD 1992
Bonds were subordinated in a winding up, and the company was in administration in which the administrators were proposing a scheme of arrangement. The judge was invited to apply the Tea Corporation principles in order to arrive at a conclusion that . .
Cited – In re Ocean Steam Navigation Company Limited ChD 1939
A petition was presented for the re-organisation of the company in circumstances in which, though it was was wholly insolvent, proposed a transfer of its entire undertaking to a new company, the shares in the new company being allotted to the . .
Cited – In re Maxwell Communications plc ChD 1993
It was argued that the pari passu distribution of assets among unsecured creditors was a general rule of insolvency law from which it was not possible to contract out, even to one’s own disadvantage, particularly by analogy with cases on set-off in . .
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Company, Insolvency
Updated: 27 June 2022; Ref: scu.219692