INSOL Latin America Virtual Seminar

3, 10, 17 March 3.00pm [GMT]

Speakers

International Dispute Funding in Latin America
Thursday 3 March

Moderator: Tim DeSieno, Omni Bridgeway, USA

Tim DeSieno is Global Director of Distressed Debt and Senior Investment Manager. He is responsible for the formation and implementation of Omni Bridgeway’s global distressed debt business. He will also pursue distress-related litigation funding opportunities in emerging markets, with a special focus on Latin America.

Tim has over 30 years of leading law firm experience advising institutional investors in managing their distressed debt investments around the globe.  Prior to joining Omni Bridgeway, he was a senior partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, and he previously was a partner at Bingham McCutchen LLP and Hebb & Gitlin.

Nyana Abreu Miller, Sequor Law, USA

Nyana Abreu Miller, an attorney at Sequor Law, focuses her practice on cross-border insolvency, marital asset recovery and financial fraud. Nyana has worked on cases brought under Chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code on behalf of foreign office holders of bankrupt Latin American companies and financial institutions where insiders concealed hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of assets into or through the United States. She has represented individuals, corporations, receivers and trustees in applications for assistance in obtaining evidence under 28 U.S.C § 1782, in litigation and in judgment enforcement proceedings. Nyana has domesticated and enforced foreign judgments under Florida’s Uniform Out-of-country Foreign Money-Judgment Recognition Act.

Henrique Forssell, Duarte Forssell Advogados, Brazil

Henrique Forssell is one of the founding partners of DFA, with extensive experience in advising trustees, foreign liquidators and financial institutions in the identification of bankruptcy and banking frauds of national repercussion. Over the last ten years, he has been appointed by several judicial authorities to some of the most relevant proceedings of international recovery of assets in Brazil. Since 2011 he has been a member of FraudNet, an organization established by the International Chamber of Commerce that selects highly qualified and experienced lawyers in recovery of assets in each country. 

Enrique Gonzales, Gonzalez Calvillo, Mexico

Enrique is founding partner of the firm and has over 35 years of experience as a leading expert in cross-border transactions with emphasis in energy, power generation, M&A’s, joint ventures, project finance and international commercial arbitration. He supports his transactional practice by bringing together his corporate and dispute resolution experience, for the structuring and negotiation of transactions.

Sovereign Debt in Latin America—will it weather the COVID economic storm?
Thursday 10 March
 

Kim Caine, Norton Rose Fulbright, USA

Kim Caine is a partner in the Washington, DC office. She joined the firm in 2006 as an associate in the Washington, DC office. Her practice focuses on regulatory compliance matters, government and internal investigations, and complex civil litigation. Given the breadth of her practice, Kim is uniquely positioned to represent and advise a broad range of clients, including US and non-US companies, organizations, and individuals, regarding a variety of complex regulatory matters, investigations, and disputes arising under US law.
 

Andrés de la Cruz, Cleary Gottlieb, USA

Andrés de la Cruz has a uniquely multidisciplinary cross-border practice that includes some of the largest and most complex deals in Latin America, assisting clients with matters that cross multiple borders and practice areas.
Andrés focuses on advising private and public sector clients in connection with cross-border corporate and financial matters, including debt restructurings, securities offerings, structured financing, as well as mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures.

Hon. Arthur J. Gonzalez, former Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York

Judge Gonzalez became a Senior Fellow immediately following his retirement as Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York on March 1, 2012. Prior to becoming a Senior Fellow, he was an adjunct professor. Judge Gonzalez teaches courses in bankruptcy law.

Judge Gonzalez received an undergraduate degree in accounting from Fordham University and a master’s degree in education from Brooklyn College in 1974. He received a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in 1982. He also received an LL.M. in taxation from New York University School of Law in 1990. Judge Gonzalez was a staff attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service and earned the Chief Counsel’s Special Achievement Award for three consecutive years. Thereafter, he entered private practice. Judge Gonzalez was appointed Assistant United States Trustee for the Southern District of New York in 1991 and served in that position until his appointment as United States Trustee for Region 2 (Second Circuit) in 1993. He served in that position until his appointment to the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in 1995 to a fourteen-year term. In 2009 he was appointed to another fourteen-year term and in 2010 was appointed Chief Judge. During his tenure Judge Gonzalez presided over many large complex corporate reorganizations, including Enron, WorldCom and Chrysler cases.

Roland Pettersson, D’Empaire, Venezuela

Roland joined D’Empaire as a partner in 2019, focusing on Corporate Finance, Financing Transactions, Insolvency and Debt Restructuring, M&A and Oil & Gas. He holds a law degree from the Universidad Catolica Andres Bello (2006), a Diploma in Finance from the University of California – Berkeley (International Diploma Program, Extension), and a postgraduate degree in International Business from the Universidad Metropolitana.

Looking North?  Latin American debtors continue to seek protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts
Thursday 17 March

Moderator: Floris Iking, Alvarez & Marsal, Mexico

Floris Iking is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal in Mexico City. He is also a founding member of A&M’s Mexico City office, which opened in 2011. With over 16 years of financial restructuring and corporate finance experience for U.S. and Mexico-based companies, he specializes in business diagnostics, restructuring plan development and implementation, cash flow forecasting, contingency planning for corporate turnaround and restructurings, and leading transformational projects for businesses such as M&A, capital raising and wholesale operational changes.

Hon. Judge Martin Glenn, US Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York

Martin Glenn is a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York.  He received a B.S. from Cornell University in 1968 and a J.D. from Rutgers Law School in 1971.  He was a law clerk for Hon. Henry J. Friendly, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, from 1971-72.  From 1972 until his appointment to the bench in November 2006, he practiced law with O’Melveny & Myers LLP.  Judge Glenn is a member of the Committee on International Judicial Relations of the United States Judicial Conference; New York Federal-State Judicial Council; American Law Institute; International Insolvency Institute; New York City Bar; National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges; American Bankruptcy Institute; and Federal Bar Council.  Judge Glenn is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and a Contributing Author of Collier on Bankruptcy.  He is a frequent lecturer on bankruptcy-related issues.

Brent Herlihy, PJT Partners, USA

Brent Herlihy is a Managing Director in the Restructuring and Special Situations Group at PJT Partners, based in New York. Since joining PJT Partners’ predecessor firm Blackstone in 2013, he has advised companies, creditors and sponsors in restructurings, special situations, financings, mergers and acquisitions. He has worked across numerous industries including retail, industrials, power and energy, shipping and telecom. Prior to joining Blackstone, Mr. Herlihy worked as an investment banker at Lazard, providing M&A and corporate finance advice to consumer, food and retail clients. Mr. Herlihy received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a JD from Harvard Law School, where he graduated cum laude. Mr. Herlihy also received a BA in Politics from Princeton University, where he graduated cum laude.

Tyson Lomazow, Milbank, USA

Tyson Lomazow is a partner in the New York office of Milbank and a member of the firm's Financial Restructuring Group. Mr. Lomazow represents debtors and creditors in chapter 11 reorganization cases and out-of-court restructurings, both in the US and internationally. Mr. Lomazow’s experience also includes representing acquirors and sellers of assets of chapter 11 debtors and financially distressed companies, and negotiating debtor-in-possession financing facilities. Mr. Lomazow frequently advises private equity funds, hedge funds, and other financial institutions acquiring control positions in financially distressed companies. His engagements have spanned a wide array of industries, including airline, automotive, construction, energy, healthcare, hospitality and gaming, manufacturing, oil & gas, pharmaceutical, printing, real estate, retail, restaurant, satellite, shipping, subprime lending, technology, telecommunications, and textile.

Main Organising Committee

Howard Seife (Chair)

Norton Rose Fulbright

USA

Diana Talero

Independent Consultant

Colombia

Floris Iking

Alvarez & Marsal

Mexico

Isabel Picot

Galdino & Coelho

Brazil

Javier Lorente

Lorente & Lopez

Argentina

Rosa Rojas Vértiz

ITAM/RMRV Consulting

Mexico

Tim DeSieno

Omni Bridgeway

USA