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[SMULA-SGRI] Module 2 Recent Development on Corporate Insolvency Law in the UK and the European Union <Professor Felix Steffek>

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Recent Development on Corporate Insolvency Law in the UK and the European Union 


 		 
Felix Steffek

Professor Felix Steffek  

Professor of Law 

University of Cambridge

 

 

This course focusses on selected issues in corporate insolvency law. It takes a comparative and economic approach. 

The first module presents the latest reform proposals on insolvency by the EU Commission to which the speaker has contributed as member of the Commission’s expert group. 

The second module investigates approaches in the UK and the EU to solve the distress of corporate groups. 

The third module engages with ways in which contracts can be used to solve the problems arising in the financial distress of the corporation.
 


 

Professor Felix Steffek is Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge and Senior Member of Newnham College. He serves as Director of the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law (3CL) and holds a JM Keynes Fellowship in Financial Economics awarded by the University of Cambridge. He is SGRI Visiting Professor at Singapore Management University and Global Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame. 

His research interests cover corporate finance and insolvency law, commercial law, dispute resolution and artificial intelligence. He has advised international organisations, governments, parliaments and courts in these areas. He is the representative for law on the Academic Publishing Committee of Cambridge University Press. 

Felix Steffek is leading multiple research projects on artificial intelligence and law, among them the Nuffield Foundation funded project on ‘Access to Justice Through Artificial Intelligence’ and the AHRC funded project on ‘Explainable and Ethical Legal Artificial Intelligence’. For further information please see https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/f-steffek/6136.


 

The registration fees for this course is $392.40 (including GST).

Please note that there will be no refund of any fees should the participant cancel the registration/ fail to attend the event. However, registration is transferable. Notice of any change in participant should be sent to SMULA, by 20 November 2024.

SMU Law Academy reserves the right to cancel or postpone any event. In such case, we will arrange for the refund of fees paid.

 
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Registration will close on 20 Nov 2024.
 
Complimentary for regulators, members of the judiciary and SMU Law full-time faculty, staff & students (please sign up with your SMU email address).
 

27, 28 & 29 Nov 2024
 

2:30 - 5:45 PM

 

Singapore Management University

 

9 points (3 points per day)

 

Corporate / Commercial

 

General

 

2:15 PMRegistration
  
2:30 PMPart 1
  
4:00 PMBreak
  
4:15 PMPart 2
  
5:45 PMEnd of Event

 

 

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. 

 

The SMU Law Academy has an established track record of providing the legal profession with high quality seminars and other opportunities to remain fully informed about contemporary legal developments in Singapore and beyond. Its carefully curated listing of seminars is developed with the profession’s multi-faceted needs in mind and meets the requirements of the CPD scheme. The Academy also administers the Auditing Scheme which enables members of the legal profession to consolidate and upgrade their understanding of the law by auditing courses in the School’s LL.B., J.D. and LL.M. programmes. For an overview of upcoming SMU Law Academy events, please click here. 

 

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, participants are reminded to sign in on arrival and sign out at the conclusion of each day of the event in the manner required by the organiser. Participants must not be absent from each day of the event for more than 15 minutes. Participants who do not comply with the Attendance Policy on any particular day of the event will not be able to obtain CPD Points for that day.Please refer to http://www.silecpdcentre.sg for more information.

 

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