To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic led to a wave of creditor schemes of arrangement ("schemes") and restructuring plans ("RPs") in the second half of 2020, which shows no sign of abating in 2021. For the uninitiated, the scheme (a long-established tool) and the newer RP process are court led UK restructuring options that a company can use to bind a minority of creditors into a restructuring. An RP can also be used to "cram down" an entire dissenting creditor class into a deal where certain conditions are met. Both processes involve two Court hearings, which provide a natural forum for challenges from dissenting creditors but which, if any such challenges can be overcome, result in formal judicial approval of the restructuring. Unsurprisingly, more schemes and RPs have led to more challenges.