Conference coverage

The EU’s new restructuring directive is based on UK schemes and Chapter 11, while planned reforms for a post-Brexit UK will borrow from Chapter 11, ostensibly to keep up with the EU. Speakers at GRR Live New York concluded that we are taking steps towards convergence, mostly as a result of the changing face of creditors.

26 February 2019

Cross-border insolvencies are growing in number and bringing with them new challenges to jurisdiction and recognition that raise doubts on the continued validity of old common law rules. Unless the world moves towards a borderless, more harmonised system the uncertainty will be weaponised, a panel at GRR Live New York warned.

26 February 2019

Greece’s economic struggles, what makes an ideal insolvency law, and the risks and rewards of emerging technologies were the topicson the agenda, as restructuring and insolvency professionals gathered in Athens last October for INSOL Europe’s 2018 annual congress.

26 February 2019

Are jurisdictions around the world converging towards a shared ideal of rescue culture, and is the US moving away from it? Panellists at an American Bankruptcy Institute conference in Milan discussed reforms around the world and focused their attention on the EU, Singapore and Delaware.

06 February 2019

China has been working hard to develop a distressed debt market in recent years – so much so that it may be the largest single asset class investment opportunity globally, according to one investor. All it needs is buyers.

17 January 2019

Hong Kong’s Financial Secretary Paul Chan says the special administrative region is “charging ahead” with its proposed corporate rescue procedure and plans to introduce a bill into the Legislative Council this year.

16 January 2019

The collapse of UK construction firm Carillion in January sent shockwaves through the restructuring world, but could the UK government’s proposed insolvency reforms have helped save the company?

21 December 2018

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.

08 November 2018

The Townhouse restaurant in Hong Kong’s Lan Kwai Fong district played host to GRR Live's second outing in the special administrative region on 6 November, where restructuring in China was on the menu. Click on the headline for photos from the event.

08 November 2018

Singapore is bidding to be the "Asian New York" of debt restructuring, but can it compete with the US’s experience and the Cayman Islands’ flexibility? A team of panellists at GRR Live Offshore considered the pros and cons of the respective regimes to see whether the city-state was “coming for Cayman’s docket”.

22 October 2018