IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024

15 Sep - 20 Sep 2024

CASA DEL DIEZMO 3, LEVEL S

Session information

When the senior becomes the junior: debt to equity swaps in listed companies and how they are done (or not done)

Thursday 19 September (1115 - 1230)

CASA DEL DIEZMO 3, LEVEL S

Committee(s)

Financial Services Section (Lead)
Asset Management and Investment Funds Committee
Banking & Financial Law Committee
Capital Markets Forum
Insurance Committee
Securities Law Committee

Description

The panel will address key considerations and processes of equitisation of unsecured debt as a balance sheet repair tool in financial restructurings.


This session will navigate through the following issues:

•    Available protections for lenders and shareholders;
•    regulatory constraints;
•    directors duties;
•    orderly sales of equitised debt on the markets;
•    disclosure issues;
•    implementation risks; 
•    And conflicts in domestic and cross border constellations.
 

Session / Workshop Chair(s)

Jean-Francois ADELLE Jeantet, Paris, France; Co-Chair, Banking & Financial Law Committee
Jan Peeters Stibbe, Brussels, Belgium

Speakers

Dorothee Fischer-Appelt Greenberg Traurig, London, England
Shubhangi Garg Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co, New Delhi, Delhi, India; Vice Chair, Financial and Banking Law Conferences Subcommittee
Cecilia Mairal Marval O'Farrell Mairal, Buenos Aires, Argentina; LPD Council Member
Dorothee Prosteder Noerr, Munich, Germany