The Evolution of Debtor-in-Possession Financing

SGRI Professorship Lecture

The Evolution of Debtor-in-Possession Financing 

SYNOPSIS

As seats are limited, registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.

PROGRAMME

SPEAKER

Singapore Global Restructuring Initiative (SGRI) Visiting Professor

Professor Kenneth Ayotte
University of California, Berkeley

Professor Kenneth Ayotte is the Robert L. Bridges Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley - School of Law. He joined Berkeley Law in 2014. From 2007-2014, he was a Professor of Law at Northwestern University. From 2002-2007, he was an Assistant Professor in the Finance and Economics group at Columbia Business School. Professor Ayotte has served as a director of the American Law and Economics Association and an Associate Editor of the International Review of Law and Economics. He teaches corporate finance and bankruptcy law. His research uses financial and economic tools to better understand the bankruptcy system. His most recent articles have focused on valuation disputes in corporate reorganizations and the treatment and evolution of debtor-in-possession financing in the United States. He holds a BA from the University of Virginia and PhD in Economics from Princeton University. In 2023, Professor Ayotte will be visiting Singapore Management University as the inaugural SGRI Visiting Professor.

MODERATOR

Head, Singapore Global Restructuring Initiative

Associate Professor Aurelio Gurrea Martínez
Singapore Management University

Aurelio Gurrea Martínez is an Associate Professor of Law and Head of the Singapore Global Restructuring Initiative at the Singapore Management University. He is a member of the Academic Steering Committee at INSOL International, founding director at the Ibero-American Institute for Law and Finance, and co-chair of the SMU-3CL Cambridge Roundtable on Corporate Insolvency Law. He has taught, studied or conducted research at several institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Asia and Latin America, including Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, Columbia Law School, Stanford University, and the University of Oxford. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago.

DATE
28 March 2023

TIME
5.00pm to 6.15pm (Singapore time)

VENUE
Function Lounge, Level 4
Yong Pung How School of Law
55 Armenian Street
Singapore 179943

FEES

Complimentary

PUBLIC CPD POINTS

1.0 Point

PRACTICE AREA

Corporate / Commercial

TRAINING CATEGORY

Advanced

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