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UN Day Lecture presented by Professor Christopher Symes
October 24 is UN Day and in Adelaide this was celebrated with the UN Day Lecture hosted by the Federal Court. Professor Christopher Symes of Adelaide Law School gave the Lecture on his reflections on UNCITRAL’s Model Law on Cross Border Insolvency. Professor Symes outlined the achievements of Working Group V and Australia’s adoption and […]
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Professor Christopher Symes spoke at the annual ARITA conference
Professor Christopher Symes spoke at the annual ARITA (Australian Restructuring Insolvency $ Turnaround Associaton) conference held at Adelaide Oval on Wednesday 7th September. His address raised the need for a detailed insolvency reform project to follow up from the extremely successful ALRC Harmer Report of 1988. ARITA recently announced they were creating a Financial Recovery […]
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Adelaide Law School and Singapore Management University Law School join for a Comparative Corporate Governance conference
In January 2019 Adelaide Law School and SMU Law School are holding a conference in Singapore on comparative corporate governance. The theme covers global and Asian perspectives and there are papers by scholars, practitioners and regulators working in the fields of corporate law, securities law, insolvency law and corporate governance. For example, speakers will be […]
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The Forum of Asian Insolvency Reform (FAIR) attended by Professor Christopher Symes
The Forum of Asian Insolvency Reform (FAIR) is a means for sharing and obtaining feedback in areas addressed by the UNCITRAL Principles for Effective Insolvency and Creditor/Debtor Regimes which are a distillation of international best practice on design aspects of these systems. In September 2018 the 11th Forum of FAIR was hosted by the […]
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CPD Seminar: Take a Further 20% Off: Corporate Law Advice to Retail Industry Clients in Financial Difficulties
Companies with a tenuous grasp on solvency, in the Twilight Zone before the commencement of a formal insolvency process, need to be able to employ commercial strategies to try to trade their way back to solvency. Unfortunately, as was recently demonstrated by Dick Smith’s, some of the typical strategies employed by companies with tenuous solvency […]
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