International Insolvency

Why Not Chapter 15?

Geopolitical Impacts on the Restructuring Market

The Next Wave of EU Harmonisation

Liability Management Is Arriving in Europe

America Now!

Faculty Biographies (2024 International European Insolvency Symposium)

Cross-Class Cramdowns Across Borders

Digital Assets Are Coming to a Bankruptcy Near You This session will introduce participants to the very hiogh likelihood that digital assets could be a part of a bankruptcy estate given the rapid growth in the use of digital assets to transact business and in the number of people in the United States that own digital assets. Participants will be made aware of the resources, tools, and professional services available to locate, track, quantify, value and recover digital assets for the bankruptcy estate. 1. Participants will gain a working understanding of blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies and other digital assets and their rapid adoption by individuals and businesses.
2. Participants will learn to identify signs that a party may possess digital assets and will be familiar with the resources available to aid in discovering and identifying digital asset ownership.
3. Participants will learn about the techniques and tools available to trace and recover digital asset transactions.
4. Participants will learn the basic issues and challenges in valuing digital assets. Creditor Suggested Speakers Marc Schwartz Mschwartz@schwartzassociates.us Schwartz Associates, LLC

ABI International Committee Leadership Updates

Meet the new Membership Relations Director, Charles Phiri

Charles Phiri is an international restructuring expert with more than 15 years in international and cross-border Insolvencies. He is a founder of CP ADVISERS (PTY) LTD., a Johannesburg, South Africa-based company that is involved in corporate restructuring, cross-border insolvency, business advisory, business turnarounds, business rescue and tax services.

A Tale of Sovereign Restructurings: Venezuela and the CITGO Saga Discussion on the developments of Venezuela's indefinitely postponed external debt restructuring process and the individual execution efforts over the country’s most valuable assets in the US—CITGO’s network of downstream assets—in the context of the Crystallex litigation in Delaware. The session would highlight the tension between “first come / first served” principles guiding the current stream of individual enforcement / execution, and the creditor coordination features of a pure insolvency proceeding. The session will provide clarity on the status of the ongoing melee of court cases going after Venezuela's assets abroad, in the zoom-out context of the prospects for a broad, all-encompassing, debt restructuring process Creditor Suggested Speakers Roland Pettersson rpettersson@dra.com.ve D'Empaire