Description

This is a series of four workshops on the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018 (IRDA) and the developments since the seminal 2017 reforms. IRDA has come into force on 30 July 2020, bringing to fruition the most fundamental reform process to Singapore’s insolvency laws since independence. IRDA is a crucial step to Singapore achieving its objective of helping companies in the region and beyond that are in financial difficulties to restructure and survive.

The second and third workshops are on rescue. The third workshop examines schemes, especially the hybrid scheme. It discusses the case law on the hybrid scheme since this was introduced in the 2017 reforms. References will be made to US law where appropriate.

About The Speakers

Wee Meng Seng is an Associate Professor and the Deputy Director and Head (Corporate Law) of the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS), and an editorial member of the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies.  He obtained his LLB from NUS, BCL (First Class) and DPhil from Oxford. He teaches corporate insolvency law and company law. He has published in journals including the SAcLJ, LQR, SJLS and the LMCLQ and chapters in Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press books.  His writings have been cited by fellow academics, the Singapore Court of Appeal and the Australian Federal Court. He was a member of the Insolvency Law Review Committee and a visiting professor at various law schools.

Smitha Menon is a Partner in the firm’s International Arbitration, Restructuring & Insolvency and Special Situations Advisory Practices. Her main areas of practice are corporate disputes and restructuring. Smitha is a Fellow of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore, on the board of the Singapore network of the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) and on the Insolvency Practice Committee of the Law Society. Smitha’s international appointments include being the Singapore alternate Court member on the ICC International Court of Arbitration and on the ICC Commission for Arbitration and ADR. Smitha’s expertise has been recognized in legal publications such as Chambers Asia-Pacific, IFLR1000, The Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal and The Global Restructuring Review’s list of the world’s leading restructuring lawyers.