[Webinar] Quistclose Trusts and Directors’ Creditor-Regarding Duties in Near-Insolvent Companies

3:00pm
Introduction
Mr Harold Foo
Assistant Director, Policy Advisory Division
Ministry of Law of Singapore

3:05pm
Presentation - Quistclose Trusts and Directors’ Creditor-Regarding Duties in Near-Insolvent Companies
Professor Adam Hofri-Winogradow
Montesquieu Chair in Comparative Law
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

3:40pm
Commentary
Ms Jo Tay
Partner
Allen & Gledhill LLP

3:55pm
Q&A Session
Mr Harold Foo (Moderator)
Professor Adam Hofri-Winogradow
Ms Jo Tay

4:10pm
End of Webinar

Mr Harold Foo
Assistant Director (Policy Advisory)
Ministry of Law

Mr Harold Foo is an Assistant Director in the Policy Advisory Division at the Ministry of Law.  He has been closely involved in debt restructuring and insolvency policy development and legislative reform in Singapore, including the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act – Singapore’s omnibus insolvency legislation. 

At the international level, Mr Foo has been a member of the Singapore delegation to UNCITRAL Working Group V (Insolvency Law) since 2017.  He was actively involved in the negotiations and completion of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Recognition and Enforcement of Insolvency-related Judgments (2018) and the UNCITRAL Model Law on Enterprise Group Insolvency (2019).  He has been the Chair of the Working Group since 2019, overseeing the Working Group’s deliberations on a simplified insolvency regime. 
 
Prior to joining the Singapore Legal Service, Mr Foo was a member of the debt restructuring and insolvency team at one of Singapore’s largest law firms.

Professor Adam Hofri-Winogradow
Montesquieu Chair in Comparative Law
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Adam Hofri-Winogradow is Montesquieu Chair in Comparative Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Specialising in trusts and corporations, Adam has published extensively on modern trusts law, utilising quantitative, qualitative and normative research methods. Adam has served as visiting professor at the University of Virginia, Georgetown Law Center, Western Ontario University and elsewhere. He has been a member of STEP - the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners - since 2008. 

Ms Jo Tay
Partner
Allen & Gledhill LLP

Jo is a Partner in the Restructuring & Insolvency Practice Group, Litigation, at Allen & Gledhill LLP. She specialises in cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters and structured finance transactions, and practises generally in the area of equity and trusts. Jo has been extensively involved in advising financial institutions on the debt restructuring regimes in Singapore, in the context of complex financial transactions. She has been reviewed in IFLR1000 as “an excellent lawyer” who is “able to seamlessly provide advice”. Jo graduated with a Master of Laws (First Class) from the University of Cambridge. Before that, she graduated from SMU with the Kwa Geok Choo Top Law Student Award, having read a double degree programme in Law (LLB) and Business Management (BBM, Finance).