12 February 2026 SGRI Seminar: New Frontiers in Insolvency Law: Towards a Contractualization of Financial Distress?

SYNOPSIS

The length and costs of formal insolvency proceedings have encouraged regulators, policymakers, practitioners and scholars to explore alternative mechanisms for addressing financial distress. This event will examine the emerging trend toward the “contractualization” of financial distress, that is, a shift whereby parties increasingly structure financial restructuring and insolvency arrangements outside traditional court processes, as well as the growing need to provide debtors and creditors with greater flexibility to deal with financial distress. To that end, the event will discuss the rise of hybrid procedures, including pre-packaged reorganizations and pre-arranged sales of businesses, along with the strategies and regulatory conditions needed to facilitate out-of-court restructurings. It will also examine the use of arbitration in insolvency-related disputes, different approaches to the choice of insolvency forum, and how the use of AI may facilitate contractual solutions for the resolution of financial distress. By bringing together leading insolvency experts from several jurisdictions, including Asia, Australia, Continental Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States, this event ultimately seeks to discuss new trends and frontiers in insolvency law, and how contractual and hybrid solutions can offer new pathways toward more efficient insolvency regimes that foster entrepreneurship, access to finance, job creation and economic growth.

 

PROGRAMME

 

SPEAKERS

You may refer to the Speakers Biography here.

SILE ATTENDANCE POLICY

Participants who wish to obtain CPD Points are reminded that they must comply strictly with the Attendance Policy set out in the CPD Guidelines. For this activity, this includes signing in on arrival and signing out at the conclusion of the activity in the manner required by the organiser, and not being absent from the entire activity for more than 15 minutes. Participants who do not comply with the Attendance Policy will not be able to obtain CPD Points for attending the activity. Please refer to https://www.sileCPDcentre.sg for more information.

ABOUT SINGAPORE GLOBAL RESTRUCTURING INITIATIVE

The Singapore Global Restructuring Initiative (SGRI) is a project launched by the Singapore Management University with the support of the Ministry of Law that seeks to promote cutting-edge research on restructuring and corporate insolvency law while promoting cooperation between academics, practitioners, judges and policymakers from all over the world.