{"id":34304,"date":"2022-10-11T09:29:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T12:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=34304"},"modified":"2026-04-23T04:04:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:04:03","slug":"bermuda-court-orders-winding-up-of-genting-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/bermuda-court-orders-winding-up-of-genting-hong-kong","title":{"rendered":"Bermuda Court orders winding up of Genting Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The court&#8217;s ruling also applies to Dream Cruises Holding Ltd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Hong Kong.- Through a company filing signed off by its joint provisional liquidators,<strong> Genting Hong Kong<\/strong> has announced that its winding up has been ordered by the Bermuda Court. The announcement also mentions <strong>Dream Cruises Holding Ltd<\/strong>, an indirect non-wholly-owned subsidiary of the company.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company filing stated: &#8220;Further announcements will be made by the company if there is any material development with respect of the winding-up of the company and Dream Cruises as and when appropriate.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In January, Genting&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/genting-hong-kong-considers-filing-for-liquidation\" target=\"_blank\">filed for liquidation<\/a>&nbsp;after a German court rejected a request <strong>to release US$88m for its shipyard unit MV Werften<\/strong>.&nbsp;In July,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/genting-hong-kong-subsidiaries-enter-into-insolvency-proceedings\" target=\"_blank\">the cruise ship operator<\/a>&nbsp;reported that various non-core subsidiaries had entered into insolvency proceedings in the relevant jurisdictions, including Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On January 18, its shares were suspended on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and will remain suspended until further notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">RWC buys Genting HK cruise trademarks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Resorts World Cruises Pte Ltd<\/strong>, the company launched by Genting Hong Kong founder&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/is-genting-planning-to-launch-resorts-world-cruise-operations\" target=\"_blank\">Lim Kok Thay<\/a>&nbsp;in April, has purchased&nbsp;<strong>Star Market Holdings<\/strong>, the owner of Genting Hong Kong\u2019s cruise trademarks. It wil pay US$3.5m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Genting HK expects to record a gain of approximately US$3.3m upon completion, which represents the net recovery after using part of the consideration to settle costs and expenses. After completion of the disposal, Star Market will cease to be an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Genting Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/resorts-world-cruises-debuts-in-singapore\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Resorts World Cruises<\/a>&nbsp;made its debut in June with a series of short cruises departing from the Marina Bay Cruise Center in Singapore. The company<strong>&nbsp;rehired about 1,600 people for the cruise business&nbsp;<\/strong>including about 70 of its 100 former sales and marketing staff.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The court&#8217;s ruling also applies to Dream Cruises Holding Ltd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Genting Hong Kong has been ordered to wind up by the Bermuda Court, impacting its indirect subsidiary Dream Cruises Holding Ltd, following earlier liquidation filings and multi-jurisdictional insolvency proceedings. Concurrently, Resorts World Cruises Pte Ltd, founded by Genting HK's former chairman, acquired Genting Hong Kong's cruise trademarks for US$3.5 million, with Genting HK anticipating a US$3.3 million net gain from the transaction.","focusai_entities":"Genting Hong Kong, Dream Cruises Holding Ltd, MV Werften, Resorts World Cruises Pte Ltd, Star Market Holdings, Lim Kok Thay","focusai_location":"Bermuda, Hong Kong, Germany, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, United States","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.95), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Liquidation Impact","query":"What are the specific implications of Genting Hong Kong's winding-up order on its remaining assets and liabilities across its diverse global operations, particularly concerning creditor recovery and subsidiary divestment?"},{"label":"Trademark Valuation Analysis","query":"How does the US$3.5 million valuation for Genting Hong Kong's cruise trademarks compare to industry benchmarks for intellectual property in distressed asset sales, and what does this imply for potential future recoveries for stakeholders?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16333],"tags":[23716],"class_list":["post-34304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-genting-hong-kong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34330,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34304\/revisions\/34330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}