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The Scheme of Arrangement as a Debt Restructuring Tool

This is a joint project with the National University of Singapore (NUS) EW Barker Centre for Law & Business (EWBCLB) and Commercial Law Centre (Harris Manchester College, Oxford)

Associate Professor Wee Meng Seng
Professor Louise Gullifer, QC (University of Oxford)

11 January 2017



Jointly organised by Commercial Law Centre (HMC, Oxford) and Centre for Law and Business (NUS)

Date: Thursday 12 January 0th week of Hilary Term 2017, with conference dinner the previous evening (Wednesday 11 January)

Venue: Harris Manchester College, Warrington Room

Purpose: (i) to encourage the production of new scholarly research on the scheme of arrangement as a debt restructuring tool (in the UK and in other common law jurisdictions), and on the development and efficacy of scheme-inspired procedures in select other jurisdictions, (ii) to refine the results of this research by facilitating dialogue between senior restructuring / insolvency practitioners, judges, and academics in a conference setting.