Scott Butler Partner, Hall & Wilcox Lawyers Brisbane, Australia He has practised in the restructuring and insolvency area for close to 30 years. He is a member, and former chair, of the Insolvency and Restructuring Committee of the Law Council of Australia, a Fellow of the Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association and a Fellow of INSOL International.
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Casey Donald M. Ephraim Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School Chicago, USA He is also the Faculty Director of the Law School’ s Center on Law and Finance. His research examines the intersection of finance and law, with a focus on insolvency law. Before entering academics, Professor Casey was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
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Yee Cheung Global Head, Baker McKenzie ' s Restructuring &
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Insolvency group and Head of the Dispute Resolution Practice Group at the China and Hong Kong offices, Hong Kong Focusing on company insolvency and commercial litigation. Based in Hong Kong, her practice includes litigation and advisory work representing insolvency practitioners, corporate clients and banks on a wide range of complex disputes and insolvency and restructuring matters, including compulsory and voluntary liquidations, receiverships, corporate restructuring and schemes of arrangement. She also focuses on company law and commercial disputes, regularly advising corporate clients, shareholders and directors in relation to matters including shareholders ' rights and remedies, directors '
duties, joint venture disputes and unfair prejudice petitions.
Joanne Collett Partner, Ogier ' s Dispute Resolution team, Hong Kong With more than 23 years ' experience specialising in insolvency and restructuring matters( including 13 years in Hong Kong), she regularly represents debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, shareholders, investors, directors, fund managers and insolvency practitioners regarding Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands law with respect to a broad range of issues arising in relation to offshore entities and structures.
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Cooper Burnside, K. C. Partner, Higgs & Johnson, New Providence, Bahamas Chair of Higgs & Johnson’ s Insolvency & Corporate Restructuring practice Group and Deputy Chair of the Financial Services Law & Regulation practice group. Appointed as King’ s Counsel in 2023 and recognized as one of the country’ s leading female litigators with specialist expertise in Insolvency & Restructuring. She is consistently ranked as a leading lawyer by Chambers Global and Legal 500 Caribbean. She has detailed knowledge of the Bahamian insolvency regime, representing clients in complex, cross-border insolvencies, and restructurings. She is also a well-established litigation lawyer, frequently involved in large commercial disputes often including a multi-jurisdictional element. She was invited to serve as an Acting Supreme Court Judge from December 2020 to June 2021.
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