Is now the time for the UK to adopt a formal proceeding for restructuring distressed companies?
Ian Fletcher, Professor of International Commercial Law, Head of the Institute of Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Insolvency Law, University College London will moderate the roundtable
Panellists are drawn from the government, academia, professional bodies, practitioners, and the judiciary. They include:
UK Government
Steve Leinster, Director of Policy - Technical, Legislative & Professional Regulation, The Insolvency Service
Peter Brierley, Advisor, Bank of England
Joanna Perkins,
Secretary, Financial Markets Law Committee, Bank of England
Stuart Willey, Chief Counsel, Wholesale Markets and Firms, FSA
Academics
Prof. John Armour, Lovells Professor of Law & Finance, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Dr Maria Carapeto, Cass Business School
Prof Julian Franks, Professor of Finance & Academic Director of the Corporate Governance Centre, London Business School
Dr Sandra Frisby, Baker & McKenzie Associate Professor and Reader in Corporate and Commercial Law, School of Law, University of Nottingham
Professional Bodies
Richard Heis, R3, Partner, KPMG
Lucy Howcroft, Solicitor, Business Recovery Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Chair of Insolvency Law Panel, CBI
Angela Knight, Chief Executive, British Bankers Association
Robert O Sanderson, President, INSOL International
Geoffrey Yeowart, Partner, Lovells, City of London Law Society
Judiciary
Mr Justice Blackburne
Lord Neuberger
Practitioners
Neville Kahn, Partner, Deloitte
Nick Segal, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Richard Sheldon, QC, 3-4 South Square
Company Directors
Tony Alvarez III, Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal
Ken Maciver CBE, Chairman, TMD Friction
John Weston, Chairman, Isoft Group
Investors
Terry Hughes, Partner, Silver Point Europe LLP
EHYA
Mark Andrews, Partner, Denton Wilde & Sapte
Dan Hamilton, Partner, White & Case and Co-Chair, EHYA Insolvency Reform Committee
Gilbey Strub, Managing Director, EHYA
Andrew Wilkinson, Co-Head of Restructuring, Goldman Sachs and Co-Chair, EHYA Insolvency Reform Committee
POST - EVENT MEDIA BRIEFING CALL
Friday 6th March 2009 11am
For further details, please contact Anne Cochrane at acochrane@ehya.com.
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