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Privy Council changes English law on the intersection of insolvency and arbitration

Andrew Cooke, Mike McClure KC, Elizabeth Kantor and Natty Sugarin of HSF explain how the Privy Council's decision in Sian Participation significantly altered English law by allowing winding-up petitions to proceed in the face of arbitration agreements, provided the debt is not disputed on genuine and substantial grounds.