CA-2025-000371 - [2025] EWCA Civ 1003

ON APPEAL FROM THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES

INSOLVENCY AND COMPANIES LIST (ChD)

Mr Justice Leech

[2025] EWHC 338 (Ch)

IN THE MATTER OF THAMES WATER UTILITIES HOLDINGS LIMITED

AND IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT 2006

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Before :

SIR JULIAN FLAUX CHANCELLOR OF THE HIGH COURT

LORD JUSTICE ZACAROLI
and

SIR NICHOLAS PATTEN

Between :

Mark Phillips KC, Jamie Carpenter KC, Matthew Abraham, Jamil Mustafa and Imogen Beltrami (instructed by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan UK LLP) for the First Appellant, Kington S.À.R.L. appearing on behalf of an ad hoc group of Class B creditors

Andrew Thornton KC and Georgina Peters (instructed by Freshfields LLP) for the Second Appellant, Thames Water Limited

Tom Smith KC, Charlotte Cooke and Andrew Shaw (instructed by Linklaters LLP) for the First Respondent

Adam Al-Attar KC and Edoardo Lupi (instructed by Akin Gump LLP) for the Second Respondent

The Third Appellant was not represented

Hearing date: 10 July 2025

JUDGMENT

If this Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on 29 July 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives

(see eg https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2022/1169.html).

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