Be Informed: Is the Restructuring Plan an Insolvency Process?

IWIRC London are delighted to announce that our January ‘Be Informed: Is the Restructuring Plan and Insolvency Process?’ event which was postponed due to illness will now take place on 20 April 2022.

Given the change in circumstances, this event will now be a hybrid event and we are offering you the opportunity to attend either in person or virtually. The number of in-person tickets is restricted and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

For those attending in person, BDO will kindly be hosting networking drinks after the event.

Our speakers, Felicity Toube QC, David Allison QC and Kirsty McMahon (BDO) will debate whether the Restructuring Plan is an insolvency process for the purpose of cross-border recognition and discuss the practical consequences for practitioners.

Speakers include:

• Felicity Toube QC
• David Allison QC
• Kirsty McMahon, BDO

Felicity Toube QC

Felicity Toube QC specialises in domestic and cross-border insolvency and restructuring, banking and financial services, commercial litigation, civil fraud, and company law. Felicity is regularly instructed in cases in the Cayman Islands and the BVI. She acts as an expert (in the laws of England and other common law jurisdictions) in international proceedings (including in the USA).

Felicity has acted on all the recent major corporate insolvencies, including: Gategroup, NMC, Pizza Express, Smile Telecoms, Codere, Swissport, Carluccios, Debenhams, Matalan, Saad, Madoff, Peak Hotels, Lehman, Stanford, Nortel, and MF Global. She also acted for the successful supporting creditor in the Gertner appeal.

She is a mediator (ADR Group), an arbitrator (CiArb), and Co-Chair of the INSOL ADR Colloquium.

Felicity’s publications include: Moss, Fletcher & Isaacs on the EU Regulation, Toube on "International Asset Tracing in Insolvency" (OUP), Halsbury’s Laws on Corporate Insolvency. Felicity is a Vice President of III, and Chair of the Appeal Panel for ICAS.

She also teaches on the BCL course at Oxford University and is currently undertaking a part-time DPhil in Law at Oxford University, focussing on issues of cross-border insolvency.

David Allison QC

David Allison QC specialises in business, commercial and financial law, with a particular emphasis on corporate restructuring (both domestic and cross-border), sovereign debt restructuring, banking and financial services, structured finance, commercial litigation and company matters. He has an extensive overseas practice which includes Cayman, BVI, Dubai, Jersey and Guernsey. He has acted as an expert witness in proceedings in a number of overseas jurisdictions.

Recent cases include Premier Oil, Arcadia, Carillion, Interserve, Thomas Cook, Debenhams, British Steel, Lehman Waterfall, Metinvest, Galapagos, Syncreon, Monarch, Noble, House of Fraser, BHS, Agrokor, KWM, Codere, Abengoa, Russian Standard Bank, APCOA, ATU, Airwave, Stemcor, MF Global, Nortel, Bank of Ireland, European Directories, Stanford International Bank, Madoff, Landsbanki, Glitnir, Kaupthing, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Deutsche Annington, PrimaCom, Nef Telecom, Biffa, Fitness First, NCP, Monier, Tele Columbus and Cattles.

Kirsty McMahon, BDO

Kirsty is a Director in the Cross Border and Contentious Insolvency team and has over 15 years’ experience of working with financial institutions, management and stakeholders of businesses across multiple sectors. Kirsty regularly deals with complex situations, advising on and enacting strategies to protect and realise assets across multiple jurisdictions. Kirsty is experienced in obtaining recognition of insolvency proceedings and bringing claims in foreign jurisdictions. Kirsty is a Chartered Accountant and a Member of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals.

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