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Hong Kong Case Law

Dividends in liquidation
  • 18 Mar 2008

    RE PEREGRINE INVESTMENTS HOLDINGS LTD. AND ANOTHER

    Citation
    RE PEREGRINE INVESTMENTS HOLDINGS LTD. AND ANOTHER
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCCW20/1998

    For creditors who have contractual claims including deferred interest, they are entitled to continue receiving dividends from both estates until the full contractual claim is satisfied; however, PIHL cannot be subrogated to the Guaranteed Creditors' rights against PDL because interim dividends paid by PIHL were post-proof payments not appropriated to the debts, the rule against double proof prevents PIHL competing with creditors in PDL's liquidation, and therefore no subrogation arises and any surplus received by Guaranteed Creditors is held on trust for PIHL.