ACADEMIC PROGRAM
Legal track #2 | Session 3 - Navigating Insolvency Proceedings in Cross-Border M&A: Legal and Strategic Considerations
DATE & TIME
LOCATION
🗓️ Wednesday, August 27
🕐 10:00-11:00 EDT
📍Waldorf Astoria
DESCRIPTION
What happens when a thriving business suddenly collapses? Enter the court-appointed ‘designated survivor’ aka the bankruptcy trustee thrust into power as the unelected ruler of the ruins. Tasked with salvaging value and making critical decisions, the trustee and its team of global lawyers must navigate complex cross-border insolvency laws, conflicting creditor interests, and high-stakes distressed M&A transactions. This panel will explore the challenges of restructuring and selling distressed assets across jurisdictions, highlighting the evolving legal landscape and the skills future insolvency and corporate professionals must master in an increasingly globalized world.
Speakers
Marcel Jakob
Schellenberg Wittmer, Switzerland
Marcel Jakob is a partner in Schellenberg Wittmer’s mergers & acquisitions group in Zurich, Switzerland. He focuses on domestic and cross-border M&A transactions including asset deals and restructuring transactions (incl. complex carve-outs). He is experienced in advising investors and companies in times of financial distress, including court-approved restructurings during administration/moratorium (distressed M&A).
Elena Pintea-Pushkin
Racine, France
Elena has extensive experience in representing companies at critical stages of their development, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions and strategic alliances in France and abroad.
She advises companies on a wide range of general corporate matters and is particularly active in the life sciences, real estate and industrial sectors.
Eugenia Siracusa
International Monetary Fund, USA
Ms. Eugenia Siracusa is a Counsel in the Legal Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC, United States. Before joining the IMF, Ms. Siracusa worked as Legal Officer in the Legal and Enforcement Department (Legal Unit) of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in Paris, France. Prior to this Ms. Siracusa was an Associate in the Corporate and Financial Services Department of Law Firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and a Teaching Assistant in International Law at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, both located in Milan, Italy. Ms. Siracusa also worked in the Legal Service of the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium. She received her LL.M. from the University College of London (UCL) in the United Kingdom, and her Masters Degree in Law from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy. Ms. Siracusa is a solicitor admitted to practice law in England and Wales
SESSION COORDINATORS AND MODERATORS
Luke van de Laar
Kemperink Maarschalkerweerd Wouters N.V., Netherlands
Johannes Egelhof
bnt attorneys in CEE, Germany
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