The International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation’s latest Hall of Fame inductee has announced she is leaving the industry after almost three decades at a conference marking the organisation’s 30th anniversary.
02 May 2023
On the fifth anniversary of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Recognition and Enforcement of Insolvency-Related Judgments, lawyers, judges and academics from around the world discussed gaps that can be plugged by the new law and whether the UK will ever override the “questionable and outdated” Gibbs rule.
26 April 2023
“The eggs have been so scrambled, there can be no remedy.” Panellists at INSOL International’s Latin America seminar discussed the pros and cons of the mootness doctrine in bankruptcy proceedings and warned that delays caused by appeals can become issues of life and death.
12 April 2023
Is the current class of unscrupulous businessmen and women worried more about likes than the law? At INSOL International’s first in-person event in India since the start of the covid pandemic, practitioners discussed cross-border asset tracing in India and whether discretion is a dying art among fraudsters.
27 March 2023
Regional banks in the Middle East shared their predictions for the acceleration of a buoyant local non-performing loan market this week – but distressed investors appeared sceptical, citing a “humongous delta” between the banks’ expectations and investor realities.
17 March 2023
Specialist insolvency judges, greater clarity on the priority status of new money and better understanding and cooperation between onshore and offshore regimes: speakers from law and advisory firms, funds and banks in the Middle East provided food for thought for future restructuring reforms in the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
16 March 2023
“The reality is the vast majority of people that are sitting in senior roles today came on to the pitch five nil up before the ball was even kicked,” an EY partner remarked at an Insolvency Practitioners Association diversity event in London last week.
20 February 2023
Insolvency advisers in the Cayman Islands have taken aim at what they say is a recent trend of “protectionist” Hong Kong court rulings at the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Caribbean Insolvency Symposium.
08 February 2023
The think tank founded by former INSOL International president Sumant Batra has named two Indian judges as emeritus fellows, and dedicated a new mediation centre to another late luminary in the insolvency space.
08 February 2023
India’s economic growth and the refinement of the country’s Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code are not mutually exclusive, a crowd of leading Indian and international practitioners and scholars heard this week at the inaugural conference of the Insolvency Law Academy – a not-for-profit organisation set up by former INSOL International president Sumant Batra.
07 February 2023
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