Interviews

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

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

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

One week in September 2008 changed the life of Judge James Peck. He talks to GRR about the proposed changes for the restructuring of systemically important financial institutions since Lehman, and suggests ways to enhance international cooperation between bankruptcy courts and regulators in the event of another crisis of that scale.

11 April 2016

GRR editorial board member Shinichiro Abe discusses how out-of-court workouts have gained popularity in his home jurisdiction Japan, and how studying US Bankruptcy Law earlier in his career was both a great challenge, and a great opportunity.

18 February 2016

GRR editorial board member and New York Mets fan Lisa Schweitzer discusses how she played a leading role in the world's largest patent sale and why the coming years will see a push towards conducting cross-border restructurings in single main forums.

17 February 2016

GRR's series of interviews with its editorial board continues with David Ward: a long-time student of Japanese whose firm is Canadian counsel to creditors of Nortel.

17 February 2016

17 February 2016

Before becoming a lawyer in the 1980s, GRR's editorial board member Selinda Melnik had a successful career in international policy and economic development - a role that took her to remote villages in developing countries.

17 February 2016

In her editorial board interview for GRR, Poh Ling Low discusses an aspect of the Singapore Companies Act that usually catches foreign debtors out - and also reveals an artistic streak.

17 February 2016