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Validation of pre-liquidation sale
  • 28 Aug 2020

    RE MINLOY LTD AND OTHERS

    Citation
    [2020] HKCFI 2215
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCCW229/2019

    Judge held that allegations of shareholder/director misconduct in section E were irrelevant to insolvency and struck them out; the petition was irregular as a single petition for three companies but, on the merits of interlocutory applications, the court declined to strike out the petition in whole and instead ordered a stay of the petition until final determination of the related unfair prejudice appeals (save for rectifying the procedural irregularity), and validated the sale of specified non-core land and use of proceeds because affirmative evidence showed the sale was beneficial to the co…