Interviews
GRR meets Rome Court of Appeal president Luciano Panzani
GRR met Judge Luciano Panzani, the president of the Court of Appeal in Rome, at INSOL Europe’s annual congress in Warsaw in October, where he was speaking as part of the organisation’s Judicial Wing. He offered his views on the most important aspects of Italy’s newly approved insolvency reforms (which he helped to draft), the difficulties with court-to-court communication in civil law countries, and the problem of non-performing loans in the Italian banking system.
10 January 2018
Hong Kong Companies Court Judge Jonathan Harris talks provisional liquidation, recognition – and Tai Chi
Justice Jonathan Harris of the Hong Kong High Court met GRR in August to discuss some of his recent landmark decisions, particularly Z-Obee and Rennie Produce in which he assisted foreign liquidators.
16 October 2017
GRR meets Delaware Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Carey
GRR met Judge Kevin Carey of the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware at the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors’ 33rd annual conference in Dallas, where he talked about how his legacy won’t be a series of written decisions, but the time and skill he expended focusing on bankruptcy cases in the court room – and in the insolvency world outside of it.
29 September 2017
Cross-border cooperation: an interview with Judge Robert Drain in the US
GRR caught up with Judge Robert Drain from the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in April during the American Bankruptcy Institute's annual spring meeting in Washington, DC. There, he discussed historic and future cross-border cooperation against a backdrop of the newly minted Judicial Insolvency Network Guidelines, and the controversial property requirement for making a Chapter 15 application in the US.
16 August 2017
IWIRC's Woman of the year: Carlyn Taylor
Carlyn Taylor, global co-leader of FTI Consulting's corporate finance and restructuring segment, was named Woman of the Year 2016 by the International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) late last year. In an interview complementing our Women in Restructuring survey, she talked to GRR about cutting her teeth in the telecoms restructuring boom of the late 1990s, mentoring younger women in the industry and balancing work with family life.
21 April 2017
Victor Vilaplana: of counsel at Foley & Lardner
03 January 2017
The man who's done it all: an interview with Dr Shinjiro Takagi
Widely regarded as the father of Japan’s modern insolvency and restructuring laws, Dr Shinjiro Takagi has been a lawyer, a judge, an academic and an adviser to a multimillion-pound corporation. Now, at 80, he’s jetting off to pursue fresh professional interests with the law firm Morgan Lewis – outside of Japan.
01 August 2016
Daniel Glosband: An architect of Chapter 15
GRR sat down with Daniel Glosband, one of the primary draftsmen of the US Bankruptcy Code’s Chapter 15, at the ABI’s 34th annual spring meeting in Washington, DC, to discuss recently-proposed amendments to the Chapter, as well as some significant cross-border recognition decisions of the past year.
07 June 2016
No city-state is an island
Kannan Ramesh SC is a Judicial Commissioner of the Singapore Supreme Court with a long-time focus on cross-border insolvency and restructuring. He spoke to GRR about the city-state's adoption of the UNCITRAL Model Law, cross-border cooperation in the context of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and why his elderly grandfather was disappointed when he became a lawyer.
11 April 2016