Luxembourg Commercial Court has decided to lift the previously imposed protection mechanism for ABLV Bank Luxembourg, S.A. and start liquidation process of the bank. The appointed liquidators of ABLV Bank Luxembourg, S.A. shall be the independent administrators who have been supervising the bank until now – attorney Alain Rukavina from Rukavina Avocats law firm and Éric Collard from DELOITTE Tax & Consulting SARL.

Given significant financial losses over the extended period since March 2018 and in order to protect the interests of the depositors and shareholders, ABLV Bank Luxembourg, S.A. has decided to agree to the start of the judicial liquidation process.

On 7 February 2018, the Luxembourg Commercial Court (Tribunal d’arrondissement de Luxembourg siégeant en matière commerciale) has ruled to extend the suspension-of-payments protection status assigned to ABLV Bank Luxembourg, S.A. (hereinafter – the Bank) for another five months until July 4^th, 2019.

On 8 January 2019 ABLV Bank, AS in liquidation and Duet Group Limited (Duet) have entered into share purchase agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of ABLV Bank Luxembourg, S. A (the Bank).