The following session took place during International Insolvency & Restructuring Symposium in October 2017. All sessions from this conference can be accessed at https://cle.abi.org/.
Hon. Mr. Justice Brian McGovern, Moderator
High Court, Dublin
Henry Baer
Finn Dixon Herling, New York
Tony O’Grady
Matheson, Dublin
Kieran Wallace
KPMG, Dublin
The following session took place during International Insolvency & Restructuring Symposium in October 2017. All sessions from this conference can be accessed at https://cle.abi.org/.
The following session took place during International Insolvency & Restructuring Symposium in October 2017. All sessions from this conference can be accessed at https://cle.abi.org/.
The following session took place during International Insolvency & Restructuring Symposium in October 2017. Sir Ivan Rogers career in the U.K. civil service previously included work for British politicians Kenneth Clarke and Sir Leon Brittan, and he was chosen in 2003 to be Principal Private Secretary to then Prime Minister Tony Blair. From November 2013 to January 2017, Rogers took on the role of the U.K.’s Representative to the European Union in Brussels.
The following session took place during International Insolvency & Restructuring Symposium in October 2017. This panel will look at the questions surrounding the typical life cycle of distressed investing in Europe. The panelists have a significant amount of experience in all aspects of the process, from choosing investments to structuring and funding to exiting the deal.
The following session took place during International Insolvency & Restructuring Symposium in October 2017. Among the many issues that need to be negotiated between England and the EU for the Brexit to happen is the one dealing with restructuring and insolvency law. The U.K. has in recent years — due to its common membership in the European Insolvency Regulation regime — turned into a hotspot for foreign companies (and individuals) wanting to avail themselves of the English legal infrastructure for their recoveries.
The following session took place during International Insolvency & Restructuring Symposium in October 2017. All sessions from this conference can be accessed at https://cle.abi.org/.
The following session took place during International Insolvency & Restructuring Symposium in October 2017. A panel discussion charting the emergence of special insolvency regimes in different jurisdictions and evaluating their effectiveness. Are industry or sector based specialist regimes the way forward? All sessions from this conference can be accessed at https://cle.abi.org/.
The following session took place during Caribbean Insolvency Symposium in February 2017. This panel will discuss the interplay of arbitration clauses in a liquidation scenario, including what it can mean when a party decides to argue a dispute subject to an arbitration clause and seeks to wind up the company, or when a potential claim within an estate is subject to an arbitration clause. All sessions from this conference can be accessed at https://cle.abi.org/.
The following session took place during Caribbean Insolvency Symposium in February 2017. This panel will explore the decision of the U.K. to leave the European Union in June 2016 and its many far-reaching political implications for hedge funds and the private-equity industry, many of which are still generally unclear. The recent U.S. presidential elections also waged war on the private-equity industry, and on hedge funds in particular. The panel will look at how Brexit and the U.S.
