Singapore Worked Out

GRR profiles Singapore in the first of a new type of feature, assessing different jurisdictions around the world to see how amenable they are for cross-border insolvency and restructuring.

• Names to know in Singapore
• One-to-one with Singapore’s senior minister of state Indranee Rajah

Harneys makes up five in Caymans, Cyprus and Hong Kong

Offshore firm Harneys has promoted three banking and finance lawyers with restructuring experience to partner in the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong and Cyprus.

• FTI Consulting adds managing director in London
• Greenberg Traurig trio move to O’Melveny & Myers

Women in Restructuring

TMA, Amsterdam: the tough bits of the EU’s Insolvency Directive

With the “easy part” of the EU’s proposed directive on preventive restructuring frameworks approved in early June, speakers at the TMA’s Europe conference considered the tough bits – like how to define the “likelihood of insolvency” standard that would make pre-insolvency proceedings available to debtors.

• Dame Elizabeth Gloster gives keynote at IWIRC launch in London
• ABI, Washington, DC: Why do foreign companies choose Chapter 11?