Cross-Border Insolvency Disputes and Investigations

Kobre & Kim serves as special counsel in high-stakes, complex restructuring and insolvency litigation and investigations for corporate boards, investment funds, special committees, creditors and creditor committees, debtors, liquidators, trustees and other investors. We often work cooperatively with clients’ existing legal teams as special counsel and can be adverse to virtually any institution. 


Events April 25, 2018

Farrington Yates Examines the Impact of Technology on Restructuring

INSOL fellow Farrington Yates will lead a discussion on the financial ramifications of data breaches, hacks and phishing scams at the INSOL New York Annual Regional Conference on April 30. The panel will explore the impact of privacy and data breaches on businesses and how the misuse of this data may lead to corporate restructurings.     

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Events April 19, 2018

Insolvency Lawyer Daniel Saval Explores Offshore Restructuring at INSOL’s Annual Regional Conference

INSOL fellow Daniel Saval will discuss issues that commonly arise in international restructurings at the INSOL Annual Regional conference on April 29. On the panel titled “Offshore Restructuring: The Legal Overlay,” he will explore what happens when a proceeding is initiated, key issues lawyers often face, and strategies for implementing a restructuring in offshore and onshore jurisdictions.  

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Events March 19, 2018

Rebecca Hume Explores the Importance of Prioritizing Claims in Cross-Border Insolvency Disputes

Insolvency litigator Rebecca Hume will discuss the necessity of prioritizing claims in cross-border insolvency proceedings at INSOL’s Buenos Aires One Day Seminar on March 22. The panel will compare the various bankruptcy systems in different jurisdictions, focusing on how best to structure those claims to maximize results.

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Events March 5, 2018

George Utlik Examines the U.S. Litigation Tools Available in Cross-Border Insolvency Disputes

George Utlik will explore how the revised insolvency law in Russia impacts the use of U.S. litigation tools in international disputes at the British Russian Law Association seminar on March 6.

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Events February 28, 2018

Rebecca Hume and Andrew Stafford KC Discuss International Asset Recovery and Fraud Litigation

Rebecca Hume and Andrew Stafford KC will examine international judgment enforcement, asset recovery and fraud litigation on February 28 at KNect’s “Asset Recovery: Fraud Litigation, Enforcement & Contentious Insolvency” conference.

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Events February 9, 2018

Farrington Yates Explores Offshore Insolvency and Recovery Strategies at ARIL Conference

Farrington Yates will share effective strategies for offshore insolvency and recovery February 9 at the Annual Review of Insolvency Law Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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Accolades November 30, 2017

Firm’s White-Collar and Insolvency Groups Receive Top Marks From The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific

The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific 2017 recognized Kobre & Kim’s Asia-Pacific government enforcement defense and insolvency teams as top-tier in the region in recently released rankings.

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Firm News September 12, 2017

Kobre & Kim Continues to Expand Global Insolvency Practice With Senior Hire

Kobre & Kim welcomes Daniel Saval to its cross-border insolvency litigation practice in New York. 

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Events August 21, 2017

Randall Arthur Explores Cross-Border Insolvency in Hong Kong at IWIRC PacRim Conference

Randall Arthur will lead a discussion August 23 on cross-border insolvency in Hong Kong at the IWIRC PacRim Restructuring and Insolvency Conference in Singapore. 

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Events August 21, 2017

Randall Arthur and Gabrielle Liu Analyze the Legal and Practical Issues in Cross-Border Insolvency

Randall Arthur and Gabrielle Liu will lead a discussion on cross-border insolvency laws around the world at the August 22 LexOmnibus seminar titled “Cross-Border Insolvency – Updates to the Law” in Hong Kong. 

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Events July 20, 2017

Rebecca Hume Explores Cayman Islands Bankruptcy and Litigation at IWIRC Leadership Summit

Offshore litigator Rebecca Hume will examine bankruptcy litigation at the July 21 IWIRC Leadership Summit in Grand Cayman.

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Publications May 30, 2017

Insolvency Lawyer D. Farrington Yates Dissects Industry Trends and the Shifting Landscape for Insolvency Practitioners

D. Farrington Yates offers an analysis of the keynote address at the INSOL 2017 Tenth World Congress, citing the need for directors to carefully balance competing stakeholder interests and embrace a changing global landscape.

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Publications May 30, 2017

Global Insolvency Team Offers Strategies for Overcoming Jurisdictional Roadblocks in Cross-Border Involvencies and Investigations

Multijurisdictional insolvencies have been on the rise in recent years, and with claims against directors and officers also becoming more common, overcoming jurisdictional and foreign law hurdles are key to effectively recovering against directors of companies in cross-border insolvencies. 

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Firm News April 12, 2017

Kobre & Kim Expands Multijurisdictional Insolvency Disputes Capabilities With London Hire

Kobre & Kim has strengthened its multijurisdictional insolvency disputes capabilities in high-value litigation with the addition of senior lateral hire Mark Griffiths in London.

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Events March 20, 2017

Insolvency Lawyers Rebecca Hume and Farrington Yates Tackle the Latest Developments in Cross-Border Insolvency at INSOL 2017 Congress

Insolvency lawyers Rebecca Hume and Farrington Yates explored the latest developments in cross-border insolvency and how to navigate recent changes at the INSOL 2017 Congress.

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