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IBBI amends regulations for insolvency process to enhance transparency
Jul-22-2021

Seeking to enhance transparency in insolvency process, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has amended regulations for corporate insolvency proceedings wherein a resolution professional will be required to provide details about his or her opinion about avoidance transactions pertaining to a corporate debtor. IBBI has amended the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons) Regulations.

The amendments to the regulations are aimed at enhancing the discipline, transparency, and accountability in corporate insolvency proceedings. A resolution professional is duty-bound to find out if a Corporate Debtor (CD) has been subject to avoidance transactions, namely, preferential transactions, undervalued transactions, extortionate credit transactions, fraudulent trading and wrongful trading, and file applications with the adjudicating authority seeking appropriate relief. This not only claws back the value lost in such transactions increasing the possibility of reorganisation of the CD through a resolution plan, but also disincentivises such transactions preventing stress to the CD.

For effective monitoring, the amendment requires the RP to file Form CIRP 8 on the electronic platform of the Board, intimating details of his opinion and determination in respect of avoidance transactions. The IBBI has put out the format of form CIRP 8 and it needs to be filed in respect of every CIRP ongoing or commencing on or after July 14. With the amended regulations, an insolvency professional conducting CIRP will also have to disclose all former names and registered office address(es) so changed in the two years preceding the commencement of insolvency along with the current name and registered office address of the CD, in all its communications and records.

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