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 fourth workshop is on cross-border insolvency law. The main focus is on the Singapore enactment of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency, the case law, the Judicial Insolvency Network Guidelines and the Modalities of Court-to-Court communications. References will be made to recent US and UK case law which are relevant to the future development of Singapore’s cross-border insolvency law.

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.

Andrew Chan is a Partner at Allen & Gledhill. His practice encompasses commercial work, and he is a specialist in dispute resolution (especially arbitration), trusts, and insolvency (corporate and personal). In arbitration, he has acted as counsel, been appointed arbitrator and appointed to give expert evidence on Singapore law. Andrew has also represented the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as Singapore counsel in an investment treaty arbitration. Andrew is consistently noted as a leading insolvency and restructuring lawyer by leading legal publications and is recommended for his expertise in litigation and international arbitration.