The Dentons Rodyk Academy Seminar: Implications of the Singapore Insolvency Law reforms for Financial Institutions – the US and English experience and the Australian perspective was conducted on the 20th and 22nd September 2017 in the Singapore office.

Synergies within Dentons was evident in the robust discussion driven by the partners from around the globe - Herman Jeremiah (Dentons Rodyk, Singapore), Robert E. Richards (Dentons US), Giorgio Bovenzi (Dentons US), Neil Griffiths (Dentons UK), Byron Nurse (Dentons UK), David McIntosh (Dentons Australia) and Koh Kia Jeng (Dentons Rodyk, Singapore).

To help financial institutions navigate the changes to the Singapore Insolvency Law, the speakers shared their perspectives and “war stories” from the jurisdictions whose legislative provisions have in part inspired the reforms to the law. We also had meetings with several individual financial institutions – Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Standard Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank and Development Bank of Singapore.

In all, the Dentons partners engaged more than 30 legal counsels representing more than 20 financial institutions at the seminars, and spoke to more than 50 members of credit risk and special asset management teams at the individual bank meetings, spanning three days.

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