“I will get something resolved”: Hong Kong’s justice secretary Teresa Cheng on insolvency reform

Hong Kong’s Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng SC has told GRR she is “determined” to resolve the gaps in the special administrative region’s legislative framework with a new package of measures.

• Europe column: Interpreting a no-action clause in a trust deed
• The position and rights of secured creditors in a Cayman liquidation

Selinda Melnik: 1951-2018

Former DLA Piper partner Selinda Melnik, a founder of the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation and its first chair, as well as an active member of GRR’s editorial board, has passed away after a long illness.

• Carey Olsen promotes in Guernsey
• Three new insolvency judges appointed in London

GRR 100 2018

GRR Live Hong Kong: Harris J on mutual recognition and pushback on Singapore moratoria

Mr Justice Jonathan Harris, the judge in charge of Hong Kong’s company law and insolvency law cases, used his keynote at GRR Live to call for a mutual recognition protocol for insolvency orders between mainland Chinese courts and their Hong Kong counterparts, and to raise scepticism over the cross-border moratorium provisions in Singapore’s recent restructuring reforms – the subject of his recent decision in CW Technologies.

• GRR Live, New York: Thought-provoking solutions for global group insolvencies
• CI&CL Research Conference 2018, London: CVAs v administration as covenant-lite lending triggers concerns