Derek Lai
Ernst & Young Transactions Limited Hong Kong Derek Lai is a veteran restructuring and insolvency expert with more than three decades of experience, currently Senior Partner at EY Transactions Limited and the Turnaround & Restructuring Leader for Asia Pacific and Greater China. Previously, he spent 36 years at another big four firm, helping build its restructuring practice in Greater China and has overseen complex cross border matters for listed and multinational groups.
David Mizrachi
MDU Legal Panama David M. Mizrachi Fidanque is the founder of MDU Legal, a law firm based in Panama, Republic of Panama. His professional practice focuses on complex cross border disputes and business transactions with an emphasis on asset recovery, arbitration, and insolvency. He is licensed to practice law in Panama and the United States( Florida). In 2018, his firm obtained
10 the first recognition of a foreign insolvency proceeding under Panama’ s new Insolvency Law. He frequently serves as Panamanian law expert in foreign courts. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania( B. A. with Departmental Honours), Tulane University Law School( J. D. cum laude), and Columbia University Law School( LL. M. in Global Business Law).
Peter K. Newman
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP United Kingdom Peter K Newman is a partner and head of Skadden’ s European corporate restructuring practice in London. He advises companies, boards, sponsors, creditors and other stakeholders on complex restructurings, liability management exercises and cross-border insolvencies, and is an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law, where he teaches cross-border restructuring. He is recognised as a leading restructuring practitioner by Chambers, Legal 500 and Best Lawyers.
Eddee Ng
TKQP Law LLP Singapore Eddee Ng is Joint Managing Partner of TKQP Law LLP and co-head of its Dispute Resolution practice, where he also leads the Insolvency, Restructuring and Investigations team. Qualified in Singapore in 1997, he has acted as litigator on many of the country’ s most significant cross-border insolvency and restructuring matters, including the Hyflux Group restructuring. He is ranked for Restructuring / Insolvency by Chambers Asia-Pacific and sits on the Law Society of Singapore’ s Insolvency Practice Committee.
Fidelis Oditah KC, SAN
Fidelis Oditah & Co. Nigeria & UK Fidelis Oditah KC, SAN is a barrister practising at South Square in London and at Fidelis Oditah & Co in Lagos, and is a former Professor of Law at the University of Oxford. Called to the Nigerian Bar in 1985 and the English Bar in 1992, he is a recognised authority on insolvency law and has acted or advised on many of the UK’ s major corporate insolvencies over the past two decades, alongside an active Nigerian practice in energy, projects and commercial law. He is the author of several books on insolvency and secured transactions.
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