Crossborder Insolvency Workshop
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- Crossborder Insolvency Workshop
October
07
Monday
Speaker: | Discussants Justice Angus Stewart Justice, Federal Court of Australia Professor Lia Athanassiou Professor of Commercial Law, Faculty of Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Associate Professor Wee Meng Seng Director (Corporate Law) and Deputy Director, EW Barker Centre for Law & Business, NUS Law Mr Ian Teo Managing Director, Helmsman LLC |
Moderator: | Dr Xu Jingchen Post-Doctoral Fellow, Centre for Maritime Law, NUS Law |
Time: | 8:00 am to 5:00 pm (SGT) |
Venue: | Centre for Maritime Law |
Type of Participation: | Participation by Invitation Only |
Description
The problem of maritime cross-border insolvency has risen to prominence in recent years with the global financial crisis and the current declining shipping market. The tensions and inconsistencies in the way in which maritime cross-border insolvency scenarios have been dealt with by the courts of different countries have given rise to significant debates and need to be addressed urgently. In order to promote international trade and the shipping market, both debtors and maritime (and indeed non-maritime) creditors need certainty and predictability.