Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Small business restructuring: The US experience

Online event

This webinar will consider the SME restructuring reforms introduced in 2020 in SubChapter V of Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code. The presenter will examine how the recent reforms have performed and compare this experience with other small business restructuring provisions under Chapter 11. The session will also discuss the Australian experience with SME restructuring.

Speakers

Presenter: Prof Brook Gotberg (Francis R. Kirkham Professor of Law, Brigham Young University, Utah USA)

Professor Gotberg teaches Bankruptcy, Contracts, Secured Transactions and other commercial law subjects at BYU Law in the United States. Professor Gotberg’s scholarship focuses primarily on debtor and creditor relations, both in and out of bankruptcy. She has published articles on the impact of bankruptcy provisions on small and medium-sized enterprises, the treatment of preferential transfers in the bankruptcy code, and more generally on the laws and policies shaping business reorganization in the United States.

Commentator: Mark Robinson (dVT Group)

Mark has over 25 years experience in turnaround and insolvency, strategy, operations and risk management. Mark is a registered liquidator and registered bankruptcy trustee and is a former president of ARITA and former president of INSOL International.

Chair: Dr Jason Harris (Professor of Corporate Law, Sydney Law School)

Tuesday 21 March, 8am AEDT

This event is proudly presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney.