“Freefall”: A GRR Lehman special

A decade ago, on 15 September 2008, Lehman Brothers Holdings filed the biggest Chapter 11 filing in history, plunging the world into an economic vortex from which it has still not fully escaped. Douglas Thomson investigates the legacy that the collapsed bank left on cross-border insolvency law and what the next “Lehman” might look like.

• Philosophers and streetfighters: Ukraine worked out
• Names to know in Ukraine

Harneys loses a Smith in Hong Kong, adds one in the Caymans

Harneys has hired partner Paul Smith from DLA Piper to join it in the Cayman Islands, while Hong Kong senior associate David Smith – no relation – has left the firm to become a barrister in Australia.

• Holland & Knight hires Haynes & Boone partner and associate
• B Riley FBR hires Oppenheimer restructuring head

Women in Restructuring

GRR Live, New York: Thought-provoking solutions for global group insolvencies

A Singaporean judge has questioned whether the doctrine of separate legal personality as an unshakeable principle should be re-examined when restructuring multinational corporate groups – and raised a “fascinating twist” to the concept of synthetic secondary proceedings as a way of managing cross-border insolvencies.

• CI&CL Research Conference 2018, London: CVAs v administration as covenant-lite lending triggers concerns
• Corporate Restructuring Summit, Dubai: Debt-to-equity swaps in the Gulf