[SGRI] Seminar - Simplified Insolvency Regimes for Micro and Small Enterprises: Lessons from Australia, Singapore and the United States

SPEAKERS

Professor Edith Hotchkiss
Professor and Hillenbrand Family Faculty Fellow
Boston College Carroll School of Management  
 

Professor Edith Hotchkiss is a professor in the Seidner Department of Finance at the Boston College Carroll School of Management. Her research focuses mainly on corporate finance, more specifically, the efficiency of Chapter 11 bankruptcy procedures; restructuring mechanisms for financially distressed firms; transparency and efficiency of the corporate bond market. Professor Hotchkiss has worked for New York University as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance and at Standard & Poor's Corporation as an Assistant Vice President. She is a member of the academic advisory board and has served on the board of directors of the Turnaround Management Association.

Professor Jason Harris
Professor of Corporate Law
Director, Ross Parsons Centre of Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law 
The University of Sydney Law School 
 

Jason Harris is Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Sydney Law School. Professor Harris teaches and researches in the areas of Corporate Law, Insolvency Law, Commercial Law and Contracts. His research is focused on the public and private regulation of financially distressed companies, including debt restructuring, voluntary administration, corporate governance and directors’ duties during financial distress and the regulation of corporate groups.

 
Ms Smitha Menon
Partner and Head of Restructuring & Insolvency Practice
WongPartnership
 

Smitha Menon is a partner at WongPartnership. She is the Head of the firm’s Restructuring & Insolvency Practice and a Partner in the International Arbitration, India and Special Situations Advisory Practices. Her main areas of practice are corporate disputes and restructuring. Smitha is the Asia Co-Chair of the International Insolvency Institute, Asia Group Leader of the World Law Group’s (WLG) Restructuring & Insolvency Practice Group, an Honorary Member of the board of the Singapore network of the International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) and a Fellow of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore.

CHAIR

 
Professor Aurelio Gurrea-Martínez
Head, Singapore Global Restructuring Initiative
Associate Professor of Law
Yong Pung How School of Law
Singapore Management University 
 

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