Fukuoka Bldg, 2-8-7 Yaesu, Chuo-ku,Tokyo,
104-0028, Japan
Tel +81 3 3273 2066 Fax +81 3 3273 2033
Web www.aiklaw.co.jp
Koji Hayashi
Partner
Email hayashi@aiklaw.co.jp
Koji Hayashi qualified as a Japanese attorney-at-law and joined Abe Ikubo & Katayama in 1995. He has been a junior partner in the firm since 2000. He studied commercial law focusing on corporate insolvency at the LLM programme at University College London. He has one year’s work experience at law firms in New York and London. He actively deals with a wide range of corporate restructurings and bankruptcies, financial dealings, investments and commercial transactions. International and cross-border insolvency having Japan-US or Japan-UK elements is characteristically included in his field of activity. His practice covers representation in court and business negotiations and transactional/strategic advice.
Practice areas: corporate restructuring and bankruptcy, international and cross-border insolvency, financial transactions and litigation
Ali
Budiardjo, Nugroho, Reksodiputro
Indonesia Graha Niaga, 24th Floor, Jl. Jend.
Sudirman
Kav. 58, Jakarta 12190, Indonesia
Tel +62 21 250 5125 Fax +62 21 250 5001
Web www.abnrlaw.com Email info@abnrlaw.com
Singapore Ocean Building #11-04, 10 Collyer
Quay,
Singapore 049315
Tel +65 6236 0282 Fax +65 6532 2972
Email infosg@abnrlaw.com
Emir
Nurmansyah, SH
Partner
Emir Nurmansyah is a partner with Ali Budiardjo, Nugroho, Reksodiputro. He joined the firm in 1989 after graduating from the University of Indonesia. In 1993, he obtained an LLM degree from Bond University, Australia. Initially, his main practice areas were project and corporate financing. His current practice focuses on debt restructuring and insolvency, and he is involved in the restructuring of a number of large Indonesian conglomerates. He was also involved in the drafting of the fiduciary security law, which was recently enacted in Indonesia.
Theodoor Bakker
Of-Counsel
Email tbakker@abnrlaw.com
Theodoor Bakker has worked in Southeast Asia since 1984
and since 1997, Mr Bakker is intensely involved in many aspects of restructuring
and insolvency law. As advisor to the IMF, he participated in the redrafting
of the
Indonesian Bankruptcy Law. He currently advises creditor committees in
connection with the restructuring of many Indonesian corporates.
Mr Bakker, a Dutch law qualified lawyer, has published articles on Indonesian insolvency and cross-border investment issues, has taught at the Law Faculty of Universitas Indonesia and is a regular speaker at conferences on legal issues surrounding Indonesian restructurings.
Allen
& Overy
9th Floor,Three Exchange Square, Central,
Hong Kong, China
Tel +852 2974 7000 Fax +852 2974 6999
Web www.allenovery.com
David Kidd
Partner, Hong Kong, China
David is the Head of the Asian Business Restructuring Group. He received his education from Auckland University (1982 B.Com, LLB). He is qualified in New Zealand, England and Wales and Hong Kong, China and has practised in the field of corporate recovery and restructuring for almost 18 years, the last five in Asia. His recent experience in Asia includes advising a multinational group which commenced Chapter 11 proceedings after discovery of accounting irregularities of several billions of US dollars, in particular in relation to its exposure in the Asia-Pacific region; advising banks and borrowers in relation to the restructuring of listed and private groups of companies in Hong Kong, China, the People’s Republic of China, Indonesia, Japan and Malaysia; and advising governments on the restructuring of state-owned enterprises. David has extensive experience of working with companies, financial advisers and creditors in the formulation and implementation of restructuring plans. David is a founder member of the International Insolvency Institute.
John Wacker
Senior Associate, Hong Kong, China
John is a senior associate in the firm’s Hong
Kong, China office. He received his education at The University of Queensland
(B.Com 1990; LLB 1993; LLM 1999). He has extensive experience on a wide
variety of major restructurings and reschedulings, workouts and insolvencies
in Asia, acting for both creditors and debtors, steering committees, borrowing
groups and government institutions. His recent work includes advising
a Korean chaebol on
its proposed restructuring, advising the liquidators of Akai Holdings
Limited, Hong Kong’s largest ever corporate collapse and advising
the steering committee on the restructuring of Enron UK. John is qualified
in Queensland, Australia and Hong Kong, China.
Amarchand
& Mangaldas &
Suresh A. Shroff & Co.
5th Floor, Peninsula Chambers, Penisula Corporate
Park, Ganpatrao Kadam Marg, Lower Parel,
Mumbai 400 013, India
Tel +91 22 2496 4455 Fax +91 22 2496 3666
Email am.mumbai@amarchand.com
Amarchand Mangaldas Towers, 216, Okhla Industrial
Estate, Phase III, New Delhi 110020, India
Email am.delhi@amarchand.com
Cyril Shroff
Partner
Email cyril.shroff@amarchand.com
Cyril Shroff is managing partner of Amarchand Mangaldas. He graduated with an LLB from Government Law College, Mumbai and is a Solicitor, High Court of Judicature at Bombay, as well as an Advocate on Record, Supreme Court of India. His practice includes a broad range of areas, including restructuring and insolvency matters and both commercial/transactional advice and litigation in these areas.
Areas of particular experience include advising on a number of recent successful debt restructuring transactions, including informal and formal processes of restructuring. He is also advising several asset reconstruction companies on issues in relation to the commencement of business in India, as well as the structure of their proposed transactions and issues arising from them.
Practice areas: restructuring, insolvency, securitisation, recovery litigation, banking, corporate finance, project finance (power, telecom and infrastructure projects), company law, capital markets, foreign investment, privatisation, mergers and acquisitions, taxation and commercial litigation
Asian
Development Bank
6 ADB Avenue, 0401 Mandaluyong City, Philippines
Tel +632 632 4444 Fax +632 636 2444
Web www.adb.org
Arthur
M Mitchell
General Counsel
Arthur M Mitchell, General Counsel of the Asian Development Bank, is one of the leading American lawyers specialising in trade, investment and financing transactions between Japan, the United States and the rest of Asia. Mr Mitchell has dealt with matters related to Japan for more than thirty-five years and served in New York as head of the Japan Practice Group at Coudert Brothers. As a young lawyer, he studied Japanese politics at the International Christian University and Japanese law at Kyoto University, under a Japanese Ministry of Education grant. Also, he once served as a private secretary to Masayoshi Ohira, one of Japan's Prime Ministers.
Mr Mitchell is a frequent commentator on legal and regulatory
issues affecting trade, investment and finance. His
writings appear regularly in The Asian Wall Street Journal, Nihon Keizai
Shimbun and other publications. He has taught Japanese law at Columbia
University's Parker School of International and Comparative Law.
Clare Wee
Senior Counsel and Deputy Head, Private Sector Legal Group
Clare Wee is Senior Counsel and Deputy Head, Private Sector Legal Group, at the Office of the General Counsel (OGC), Asian Development Bank. She leads OGC's insolvency law initiatives, including various projects to survey and reform insolvency laws in Asia-Pacific, and to provide insolvency training to receivers, court officials and judges. For her work in the Philippines, OGC received a Plaque of Appreciation from the Philippines Judicial Academy. Clare has, and continues to represent ADB on various international advisory panels on insolvency. She contributes articles to, among others, Asia Pacific Insolvency and Restructuring News, Global Insolvency Restructuring Review, Global Turnaround and publications by Globe White Page. A Brooklyn Law School graduate, Clare was formerly with Whitman Breed Abbott & Morgan, New York. Whist in New York, she was active on various committees, including acting as Secretary, Asian Affairs Committee, Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
3th,
5th-12th Floors, Hankook Tire Bldg. 647-15,
Yoksam-dong, Kangnam-gu, Seoul, 135-723,
Republic of Korea
Tel +82 2 3404 0000 Fax +82 2 3404 0001
Web www.bkl.co.kr Email
Bkl@lawyers.co.kr
Dong
Woo Seo
Partner, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Email dws@bkl.co.kr
Dong Woo Seo is a partner in Bae, Kim & Lee’s corporate restructuring and M&A department. He graduated with an LLB from Seoul National University and with an LLM from Harvard Law School, Boston, USA. He deals with almost all major mergers and acquisitions transactions and corporate restructuring cases in the Republic of Korea. His areas of particular experience include corporate restructuring and mergers and acquisitions of financial institutions, companies undergoing workouts and companies undergoing corporate reorganisations, as well as foreign investment in the Republic of Korea. His practice includes both litigation and commercial/ transactional advice in these areas.
Kyu Sang Chung
Foreign Legal Consultant, Seoul
Email ksc@bkl.co.kr
Kyu Sang Chung is a senior foreign legal consultant (admitted to the New York Bar in 1997). He graduated with an LLB from Seoul National University and with an LLM from University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, USA. Before joining Bae Kim & Lee in 1999, he served as a government official with the Office of the President (Blue House), the Ministry of Finance & Economy, the Economic Planning Board, etc in the Republic of Korea for 13 years. He has expertise in insolvency law, corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions and foreign investment.
41/F,
Bank of China Tower, 1 Garden Road, Central,
Hong Kong, China
Tel +852 2103 0682 Fax +852 2522 8683
Web www.dla.com
Prue Mitchell
Partner, Hong Kong, China
Prue Mitchell is the head of the Business Support & Restructuring group, DLA Hong Kong, China. Prue has over 17 years’ experience in insolvency in Hong Kong, China, Australia and the United Kingdom and practices in both contentious and non-contentious recovery and reconstruction work. Prue focuses on large-scale restructurings of international trust and investment corporations resident in the People’s Republic of China and on advising financial institutions about and litigating the numerous conflict of law issues which arise from cross-border insolvencies that touch upon Hong Kong, China. Prue acts predominantly for bank creditors/financial institutions and insolvency accountants.
Prue graduated with a BA LLB from Sydney University and obtained an LLM (with merit) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
10th
floor, Sathorn City Tower,
175 South Sathorn Road, Khet Sathorn,
Bangkok 10120,Thailand
Tel +66 2344 9200 Fax +66 2344 9300
Web www.freshfields.com
Surasak Vajasit
Partner, Bangkok
Email surasak.vajasit@freshfields.com
Surasak Vajasit has been a partner in the Bangkok office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer since 1997 and head of the office since 2003. He has a first class law degree from Thammasat University and an LLB from King’s College, London. He is a member of both the Thai and English Bar Associations. Prior to returning to private practice, he spent eight years as a judge in Buriram, Phetchaboon and Bangkok provinces.
He has wide experience in restructurings, bankruptcy, corporate and finance transactions, including privatisations, securities transactions (public issues of debt and equity), loan facilities, project finance and dispute resolution. He has also been involved in legislation reform in Thailand, including advising on the Bankruptcy Act.
Practice areas: restructuring, insolvency, finance and dispute resolution
Rialto
Towers, 525 Collins Street, Melbourne,
Australia 3000
Tel +61 3 8608 2000 Fax +61 3 8608 1000
Web www.minterellison.com
Email info@minterellison.com
Ian Walker
Partner, Melbourne, Australia
Email ian.walker@minterellison.com
Ian is a partner in the insolvency practice of our dispute resolution division. He graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Melbourne. Ian deals with a broad range of insolvency and commercial disputes for a range of clients, including banks, accounting firms and corporate clients.
His insolvency practice includes acting for insolvency practitioners and the creditors who appoint them. He advises creditors and insolvency practitioners, whether as administrators, receivers or liquidators on all aspects of the administration of insolvent companies and their reconstruction and on any associated litigation. He has significant experience in security enforcement for all types of creditors. He has advised banks and lenders on lending liability issues and the range of disputes in which banks and their customers become involved.
He has acted for the government, statutory corporations and corporate clients on a range of litigious and non-litigious matters, principally in the areas of contractual disputes, trade practices claims, corporate governance and shareholder issues.
Practice areas: commercial dispute resolution, corporate recovery, insolvency and reconstruction, liquidations and bankruptcies, security enforcement, shareholder disputes, contractual disputes and trust law
Brendon Watkins
Partner, Melbourne, Australia
Email brendon.watkins@minterellison.com
Brendon is a partner in the insolvency practice of our
dispute resolution division. He graduated with a Bachelor of Economics
and Bachelor of Laws from Monash University. Brendon deals with a broad
range of insolvency, banking and finance and commercial disputes and acts
for several major banks, accounting firms and corporate clients.
Areas of particular experience include advising clients on all aspects
of insolvency, including reconstructions, workouts and formal appointments,
as well as matters of general banking law, banking and finance litigation,
securities enforcement, partnership disputes, mediation, retention of
title and general commercial disputes.
Practice areas: arbitration and mediation, corporate recovery, insolvency and reconstruction, liquidations and bankruptcies, partnership and joint ventures, risk management, security enforcement, shareholder disputes, commercial/business finance, debt reconstruction
Minter
Ellison Rudd Watts
Auckland PO Box 3798, Bank of New Zealand Tower,
125 Queen Street,Auckland, New Zealand
Tel +64 9 353 9700 Fax +64 9 353 9701
Web www.minterellison.co.nz
Email info@minterellison.com
Wellington PO Box 2793, Level 17, 125 The Terrace,
Wellington, New Zealand
Tel +64 4 498 5000 Fax +64 4 498 5001
Sean
Gollin
Partner, Auckland
Email sean.gollin@minterellison.co.nz
Sean is a partner in our commercial litigation team. He has commercial experience in all areas of insolvency and corporate restructuring, including receiverships and liquidations, as well as banking litigation, securities enforcement and creditors’ remedies experience. Sean has a Masters of Commercial Law with first class honours and has a particular specialty in the area of maritime and admiralty.
Sean works with New Zealand’s leading banks, financial institutions and insolvency practitioners, and is a lead partner in the team acting for Ferrier Hodgson in New Zealand’s largest ever receivership and restructuring – the Central North Island Forestry Partnership.
Kioicho
Building, 3-12, Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo 102-0094, Japan
Tel +81 3 3288 7000 Fax +81 3 5213 7800
Minoru Ota
Partner
Email minoru_ota@noandt.com
Minoru Ota is a partner with Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. He graduated with an LLB from the Hitotsubashi University and also studied at the University of Washington, School of Law. He deals with a wide range of corporate restructuring and banking transactions.
Practice areas: corporate and banking
PricewaterhouseCoopers Business Recovery Services, Australia
Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle Street, Brisbane,
Qld 4000,
Australia
Tel +61 7 3257 5000 Fax +61 7 3257 5999
215 Spring Street, Melbourne,Vic 3000,Australia
Tel +61 3 8603 1000 Fax +61 3 8603 6444
QV1, 250 St Georges Terrace, Perth,WA 6000,
Australia
Tel +61 8 9238 3000 Fax +61 8 9238 3999
Darling Park Tower 2, 201 Sussex Street, Sydney,
NSW 2000,Australia
Tel +61 2 8266 0000 Fax +61 2 8266 6999
Web www.pwc.com/au
Martin
Brown
Partner, Sydney
Email martin.brown@au.pwc.com
Martin Brown is the National Leader of our Business
Recovery Services practice in Australia. From 1998 to 2002, Martin was
based in Bangkok from where he led our practice in the Asia-Pacific region.
Prior to that, Martin spent 13 years in Sydney after starting his career
in the UK. Martin has over 20 years’ experience in insolvency
and related topics and has undertaken a wide range of both formal and
informal appointments in a number of different countries.
John McDonough
Director, Melbourne
Email john.mcdonough@au.pwc.com
John McDonough is a director in our Business Recovery Services group. John has over 14 years’ experience in corporate restructuring and insolvency. He has gained considerable experience in all types of insolvency matters, including receiverships, voluntary administrations, liquidations and informal restructuring consulting to banks and businesses. John spent a year on secondment to the National Australia Bank Ltd in their Credit Restructuring Unit (problem loans area).
John’s industry experience is broad, having worked on a large variety of assignments. Some key areas of industry expertise include commercial and residential property, banking and finance, retail, manufacturing and transport.
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hong Kong, China and People’s Republic of
China
22/F Prince’s Building, Central, Hong
Kong, China
Tel +852 2289 8888 Fax +852 2810 9888
Web www.pwchk.com
Beijing Kerry Centre 18/F, 1 Guang Hua Road,
Chao Yang District, Beijing 100020, People’s Republic
of China
Tel +86 10 6505 3333 Fax +86 10 8529 9000
Web www.cn.pwc.com
Mike
Harris
Partner, Beijing
Email michael.p.harris@cn.pwc.com
Michael P Harris (‘Mike’) is a partner in the PwC Beijing office and the senior partner in the People’s Republic of China (mainland China) responsible for corporate recovery and non-performing loan (NPL) activity. He formerly was the Managing Partner of the Global Corporate Finance Group – Greater China – for Arthur Andersen. He has over 20 years’ experience, including more than seven years in Asia, providing traditional corporate recovery services and NPL transactional advisory and portfolio due diligence assistance to debtors, financial institutions and strategic and distressed debt investors.
Through his involvement and extensive experience in the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, China and throughout Asia, Mike has led numerous NPL portfolio acquisition and disposition engagements for commercial banks, asset management companies, other interested government agencies and distressed debt and troubled asset investors.
Practice areas: restructuring, corporate advisory
Ted Osborn
Partner, Hong Kong, China
Email t.osborn@hk.pwc.com
Ted Osborn is the Leader of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Hong Kong, China and China Corporate Recovery practice. In Hong Kong, China since 1995, Ted has over 15 years’ experience providing corporate advisory, non-performing loan and restructuring related services to debtors, bank groups and bondholders.
Ted has extensive experience in Hong Kong, China and People’s Republic of China workout practices and procedures and has led numerous workouts of Hong Kong, China listed groups and entities from the People’s Republic of China. Formerly with PricewaterhouseCoopers in the US, Ted is also experienced in dealing with US workout related issues and Chapter 11 bankruptcies.
Practice areas: restructuring, corporate advisory
PricewaterhouseCoopers (P) Limited, India
Shri Ram Bhartiya Kala Kendra, 5th Floor,
1 Copernicus Marg, New Delhi 110001, India
Tel +91 11 23385627 Fax +91 11 23385641
Web www.pwc.com
Trade World, C Wing, 8th Floor, Kamala Mills
Compound, Senapati Bapat Marg, Lower Parel,
Mumbai 400 013, India
4th Floor, C Wing, Mittal Towers, 47/6 M.G.Road,
Bangalore 560001, India
Ashwani
Puri
Executive Director and Country Leader – CFR,
New Dehli
Email ashwani.puri@in.pwc.com
Ashwani Puri leads the Business Recovery Services practice of PwC India. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, London. He deals with a broad range of business/financial restructuring matters and non-performing loan resolution related issues, and his practice includes providing advisory assistance in these areas.
His key engagements include assisting the World Bank in reviewing the functioning of Debt Recovery Tribunals, assisting the Government of India in reviewing a US$4 billion loan portfolio of a development financial institution to make its solvency assessment, advising a lenders’ consortium in disposal of the secured assets possessed under the recently strengthened creditors’ rights and advising the first asset reconstruction company in rolling out its operations. He is currently leading a PwC team in an ADB TA for creating an enabling environment for ARC operations in India.
Practice areas: restructuring, insolvency, securitisation, business and equity valuations, mergers, acquisitions and cross-border investments
PT PricewaterhouseCoopers FAS, Indonesia
Jl. H.R. Rasuna Said Kav. C-3, Jakarta 12920,
Indonesia
Tel +62 21 521 2901 06 Fax +62 21 521 2911
Web www.pwc.com/id
Clifford D Rees
Partner, Jakarta
Email cliff.rees@id.pwc.com
Cliff qualified and worked in the United Kingdom before moving to Australia and then Indonesia, where he has been the partner in charge of Financial Advisory Services for 15 years.
Cliff has significant experience in all facets of corporate finance and restructuring, including debt and business restructurings, strategic advice, financial modelling, projections and business case reviews and cash/performance monitoring, purchases, sales and valuations of non-performing loans, optimised exits, fund raising and business plan development and review.
He has experience across a broad range of industry sectors in Indonesia and the Asia-Pacific region, including financial services, energy and mining and consumer/industrial products, as well as infrastructure projects. He has directed large multidisciplinary teams on many assignments.
PricewaterhouseCoopers Financial Advisory Services,
Japan
Kasumigaseki Building, 5th Floor, 3-2-5, Kasumigaseki,
Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo, 100-6005, Japan
Tel +81 3 3503 3200 Fax +81 3 3503 2800
Ralph McHenry
Partner, Tokyo
Ralph McHenry is a Partner in the Business Recovery Services practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers Financial Advisory Services (Tokyo) and is currently Chief Operating Officer of PwC’s Tokyo operations and head of Risk Management and Independence for the firm’s Asia-Pacific Theatre, covering 16 countries.
He has been with PwC and its legacy firms for 13 years in total and cultivated his expertise in such wide areas as corporate restructuring and insolvency (receiverships, administrations and liquidations) credit assessment and risk management. Ralph has also had a wealth of industry experiences outside of PwC, including serving five years as Executive Director and Operations Manager of a listed investment, stockbroking group.
As a risk management professional, Ralph has successfully undertaken assignments covering numerous industry groups. They include investigations into the fraudulent activities of a Japanese shipping company, credit risk management advice on business viability and debt reconstruction for a major five-star hotel and property group and evaluations of NPL portfolios for banks and non-bank financial institutions in Thailand, Korea and, most recently, Japan.
Tomoo Tasaku
Partner,Tokyo
Email tomoo.tasaku@jp.pwc.com
Tomoo Tasaku is recognised as one of the leading business recovery professionals in Japan, currently serving as an official adviser to the Financial Services Agency and a member of the Industrial Revitalisation Committee in Japan. He joined PwC in 1999 after working for a commercial bank for more than 20 years. As a workout specialist, he worked on distressed loans and completed many corporate restructuring and business recoveries in the US and UK, where he lived for more than 15 years.
He is an author of more than ten books and various articles for professional journals. He is a part-time lecturer at Niigata University and Waseda University. He earned a Bachelors degree from the Faculty of Law at The University of Tokyo in 1979 and MBA from Stanford University in 1984.
Practice areas: business recovery, insolvency and turnaround management
Samil Accounting Corporation,
Republic of Korea
(Korean Network Firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers)
26th Floor, Kukje Center Building, 191 Hangangro 2 ga,
Yongsan-gu, Seoul 140-702, Republic of Korea
Tel +82 2 709 0916 Fax +82 2 749 6147
Web www.samil.com
Hwa-Joo Bae
Partner, Seoul
Email hjbae@samil.com
Mr Hwa-Joo Bae is a partner in the Financial Advisory Services (FAS) division. He graduated with a BA in Business Administration from Seoul National University. He deals with a broad range of restructuring and insolvency-based matters across the Republic of Korea and his practice includes both restructuring and commercial/transactional advice in these areas.
Areas of particular experience encompass the financial, construction, computer hardware manufacturing and transportation sectors, including corporate valuation, due diligence and advice on the sale of non-performing loans. He has advised on the restructurings of Chohung and Jeonbuk Bank, as well as workout plans for the once financially troubled Daewoo Group and Young Chang Co, Ltd. Most recently, he advised on the sale of non-performing credit card loans of the Korea Exchange Bank Credit Service Co, Ltd.
Practice areas: restructuring, corporate valuation and M&A
PricewaterhouseCoopers Business Recovery Services,
Malaysia
22nd Floor, Plaza Permata, Jalan Kampar, Off
Jalan Tun
Razak , 50706 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Tel + 60 3 4041 1188 Fax + 61 3 4011 0880
4th Floor,Wisma Penang Garden, Jalan Sultan Ahmad
Shah, 10050 Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
Tel +60 4 227 2200 Fax +61 4 227 0124
Level 16, Menara Ansar, Jalan Trus, 80000 Johor Bahru,
Malaysia
Tel +60 7 222 4448 Fax +60 7 224 8088
9th Floor, Bangunan Binamas, Jalan Padungan,
93100
Kuching, Malaysia
Tel +60 82 413 957 Fax +60 82 412 644
Web www.pwc.com/my
San
Peen Lim
Partner, Kuala Lumpur
Email san.peen.lim@my.pwc.com
San Peen is the leader of our Business Recovery Services in Malaysia. He has over 20 years of experience in debt restructuring, business reviews, mergers and acquisitions, receiverships and audits.
Ken Teh
Partner, Kuala Lumpur
Email ken.teh@my.pwc.com
Ken has over 25 years of experience in receiverships, liquidations, consultancy, reconstructions, audits and taxation. He has vast experience in the preservation and revival of insolvent companies in receivership.
Wai Fun
Yap
Partner, Kuala Lumpur
Email wai.fun.yap@my.pwc.com
Wai Fun has over 20 years of experience in debt restructuring, schemes of arrangement, credit evaluations and monitoring, receiverships and liquidations, rescues of abandoned housing projects and audits.
PricewaterhouseCoopers Business Recovery Services,
New Zealand
Level 22, 188 Quay Street,Auckland, New Zealand
Tel +64 9 355 8000 Fax +64 9 355 8001
113-119 The Terrace,Wellington, New Zealand
Tel +64 4 462 7000 Fax +64 4 462 7001
119 Armagh Street, Christchurch
Tel +64 3 374 3000 Fax +64 3 374 3001
Web www.pwcglobal.com/nz
John
Waller
Partner, Auckland
Email john.waller@nz.pwc.com
John Waller is the National Leader of our Financial Advisory Services division. John has over 20 years’ experience in insolvency and related topics and has undertaken a wide range of high profile formal and informal appointments in New Zealand. In addition, he is an independent financial advisor to a number of companies and also sits as observer on the boards of many large companies.
Richard
Agnew
Partner, Auckland
Email richard.agnew@nz.pwc.com
Richard Agnew is responsible for the New Zealand Business Recovery Services team. His expertise includes taking a lead role in numerous corporate recovery assignments covering receiverships, liquidations, business appraisals, business sales and turnaround advice. Richard’s experience covers 15 years in the corporate recovery industry in New Zealand and internationally.
Jeremy
Morley
Director, Auckland
Email jeremy.m.morley@nz.pwc.com
Jeremy Morley has more than 20 years’ business experience in New Zealand. He has worked on numerous Business Recovery assignments covering business appraisals and pre-lending reports for major financial institutions, monitoring and budget review roles for lenders, management of various business restructuring, receivership and liquidation assignments. Jeremy is also responsible for managing the external credit risk and financial analysis training provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers in New Zealand to banking and similar institutions.
Abacus Consulting, Pakistan
Abacus House, 4-Noon Avenue, Main Canal, Lahore
54600, Pakistan
Tel + 92 42 5884981 Fax +92 42 5884986
6th Floor,Technology Park, Shahrah-e-Faisal, Karachi,
Pakistan
Tel +92 21 111 808 404 Fax +92 21 779 2108
Beverly Centre, Jinnah Avenue, Islamabad, Pakistan
Tel +92 51 111 808 404 Fax +92 51 287 1369
Web www.pwcconsulting-tsc.com
Asad
Ali Khan
Partner
Email asad.khan@abacus-global.com
Asad Ali Khan is the President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Abacus Consulting. He has had overall responsibility for operational activities and has been responsible for undertaking and/or directing a wide range of studies in a variety of sectors in Pakistan and in Middle Eastern, African and European countries. Has spent over 25 years in the consultancy field and acted as a team leader and supervised and directed numerous studies involving corporate finance and restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, institutional building, privatisation, valuations, organisation planning and development, capital restructuring, audit procedures, share valuations and evaluation/diagnostic studies. He has been involved in top-level consultancy at board level and has acted as an advisor to or as a professional board member on corporate boards of several national and multinational companies in Pakistan and the Middle East.
Alliya
Haidar
Director
Email alliya.haidar@abacus-global.com
Alliya is a Director and practice area head of Strategy Consulting at Abacus Consulting. Alliya has led and contributed to several consultancy assignments in a diverse portfolio of industries including power, oil and gas, telecommunication, transport, services and several consumer and industrial products. She brings with her an experience spread over 11 years, including a significant portion on corporate finance and strategy work carried out for IFIs, the GoP and its implementing agencies, as well as the private sector. Alliya has extensively worked on assignments involving restructuring and privatisation, mergers and acquisitions, financial analysis, project evaluation, due diligence exercises, market and sector analyses and related issues.
Joaquin Cunanan
& Co/ PricewaterhouseCoopers Philippines
29th Floor, Philamlife Tower, 8767 Paseo de
Roxas,
1226 Makati City, Philippines
Tel +63 2 845 2728 Fax +63 2 845 2806
Carlos
T Francisco
Principal, Corporate Finance and Recovery, Makati City
Email charlie.francisco@ph.pwc.com
Charlie is the partner for Corporate Finance and Recovery of PricewaterhouseCoopers Philippines. His range of experience spans restructuring negotiations with companies, creditors, shareholders and investors, and mergers and acquisitions in the financially distressed sector. He has been involved in the corporate receivership of a finance company and has provided financial advice to creditors of a number of manufacturing companies under rehabilitation.
Cosette
V Canilao
Manager, Corporate Finance and Recovery, Makati City
Email cosette.v.canilao@ph.pwc.com
Cosette has nine years’ banking experience, focusing on account management, credit evaluation and loan restructuring. She has been involved in several significant debt restructurings and negotiations involving business rehabilitation, disposal of non-core assets and debt rescheduling. In PwC’s Corporate Finance and Recovery Group, she is the lead manager for Business Recovery Services (BRS). She has been involved in liquidations of wireless financial information service providers, the winding-up of a business consulting firm, the valuation and sale of a distressed business and the monitoring of distressed companies’ recovery performances.
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Singapore
(with contributions from Subramaniam Iyer)
8 Cross Street, #17-00 PWC Building,
Singapore 048424
Tel +65 6236 3388 Fax +65 6236 3300
Web www.pwc.com.sg
Subramaniam
Iyer
Partner, Singapore
Email subramaniam.iyer@sg.pwc.com
Subramaniam Iyer ('Subra') is the leader of PricewaterhouseCoopers' Business Recovery practice in Singapore and has been with the firm for 16 years. Over the 16 years, Subra has had experience in many areas of the firm including audit and business advisory; insolvency services such as judicial management and liquidation; controls review; transaction advisory - commercial and financial due diligence; operational efficiency - business process reviews and review of underperforming subsidiaries for potential turnaround; strategic reviews, including review of business plans; investigations; and negotiations, including settlement of disputes. As the judicial manager of a SGX-listed company, Subra negotiated with potential investors and major bank creditors in the restructuring of the company.
Practice areas: restructuring, insolvency
PricewaterhouseCoopers Business Recovery Services,
Taipei,China
2401, Int’l Trade Building, 333 Keelung
Rd., Sec. 1,
Taipei,China
Tel +886 2 2729 6666 Fax +886 2 2757 6529
Hui-Erh
Yuan
Partner, Taipei,China
Email hui-erh.yuan@tw.pwc.com
Hui-Erh Yuan has done consulting work for many companies in the areas of auditing, corporate finance, corporate valuation and market analysis. Additionally, Hui-Erh provides consultation services for numerous companies in Taiwan that are applying for public listing, setting up strategic planning and raising funds overseas. She also is a consultant for the Accounting Research and Development Foundation of Taipei,China.
Hui-Erh has more than 20 years’ experience in the firm with an emphasis on corporate valuation analysis, corporate finance advisory, auditing, financial analysis and due diligence.
Jason Liu
Associate Director, Taipei,China
Email jason.liu@tw.pwc.com
Jason Liu is an associate director in our Business Recovery Services group. Jason has over seven years’ experience in the banking and securities industry. He has been involved in almost every NPL sell-side transactions PwC has advised on so far. Jason is very familiar with services related to this kind of transaction, such as due diligence, valuation and closing.
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Thailand
15th Floor Bangkok City Tower, 179/74-80 South
Sathorn Road, Bangkok 10120,Thailand
Tel +66 2344 1000 Fax +66 2286 4440
Web www.pwc.com/thailand
Charles
Ostick
Partner
Email charles.ostick@th.pwc.com
Charles Ostick is a partner in PwC Thailand’s Financial Advisory Services group in Bangkok, where he has been based since 1998. He graduated with a BA in Management Science from Kent University in England and became a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales in 1986. Prior to joining PwC in Bangkok, Charles was involved in restructuring and corporate finance activities in Hong Kong, China for seven years.
Charles deals primarily with advising clients on debt and corporate restructuring issues, including both formal rehabilitation under the Thai Bankruptcy Act and informal restructuring. He has acted as the planner or plan administrator on a number of cases under the Bankruptcy Act. He has also been involved in a number of debt refinancing and distressed mergers and acquisitions transactions in Thailand.
PricewaterhouseCoopers Indochina
Socialist Republic of Viet Nam
4th Floor, Saigon Tower, 29 Le Duan Boulevard, District
1, Ho Chi Minh City, Socialist Republic of Viet Nam
Tel +84 8 823 0796 Fax +84 8 825 1947
Web www.pwc.com Email
pwc.enquiries@vn.pwc.com
Kelvin
CJ Lee
Partner, Corporate Finance and Recovery
Email kelvin.cj.lee@vn.pwc.com
Kelvin Lee joined PricewaterhouseCoopers in October
1999 and has over 15 years of experience in handling investment banking,
corporate finance, corporate restructuring, private equity investments
and MBO transactions.
Prior to joining PricewaterhouseCoopers, Kelvin worked for the Lippo Group
of Indonesia where he was the Managing Director of Lippo Securities and
the Lead Manager for numerous IPOs and rights issues.
Raymond
A Pisarczyk
Manager, Corporate Finance and Recovery
Email raymond.a.pisarczyk@vn.pwc.com
Raymond Pisarczyk is the manager in the Corporate Finance and Recovery service line. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce and a degree in Accounting from De Paul University, Chicago, USA and has over eleven years of professional experience, with eight of those in Asia-Pacific.
He has in excess of three years’ corporate finance experience in the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam and has advised on corporate restructurings, including mergers and acquisitions, project finance and valuations and has assisted international investors in numerous cross-border transactions.
PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal Indochina
Joelle
Daumas
Director, Ho Chi Minh City
Email Joelle.Daumas@vn.pwc.com
Joelle Daumas is a director at PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal in Ho Chi Minh City, Socialist Republic of Viet Nam. She has ten years’ experience in international commercial and financial law. She also has extensive experience in the regulatory framework of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam’s banking and financial sector, which she has built up over a seven-year period advising multinationals and domestic companies in these sectors. Joelle completed her legal studies at the University of Strasbourg in France.
Before joining PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal, Joelle spent eighteen months as in-house legal counsel to the Asian Development Bank in Manila. During this time, Joelle’s responsibilities included projects in Lao People’s Democratic Republic and the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam.
Puhua
& Associates
The correspondent law firm of
PricewaterhouseCoopers Taiwan
12F, 460, Hsin Yi Rd., Sec. 4,Taipei,China 110
Tel +886 2 2729 6687 Fax +886 2 8788 4501
Eric Tsai
Partner
Email eric.tsai@tw.pwcglobal.com
Eric is the managing partner of Puhua & Associates, a correspondent law firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers and the senior legal counsel of PricewaterhouseCoopers Taipei,China.
As an admitted attorney in New York and Taipei,China, Eric specialises in company, securities, tax and labour law, and has extensive experience in domestic and cross-border transactions. He advises an array of high profile clients, both domestic and international, and has acted in complex transactions, delivering innovative and complete solutions. Eric is also an active member of the legal and business community and has authored various legal and business articles. In addition, he is conversant in English, Mandarin and the Taiwanese dialect.
Eric wishes to take this opportunity to thank Lawrence Ong and Ross Yang, associates of Puhua & Associates, for their outstanding contributions to this article.
65/4,
FCC, Syed Maratab Ali Road, Gulberg-IV, Lahore
Tel +92 42 5750208 Fax +92 42 5750175
Salman Raja
Partner
Email rma@nexlinx.net.pk
Salman Raja is a senior partner in Raja Mohammad Akram & Co. He graduated with an LLB degree from the Punjab University, a Masters in Economics from Cambridge University and LLMs from Harvard Law School and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He has extensive experience in insolvency and banking laws and is frequently instructed by financial institutions as well as corporate clients to conduct litigation as well as out-of-court settlements. Such settlements have included syndicated restructuring, debt-equity swaps and sale of assets through the Corporate & Industrial Restructuring Corporation (CIRC).
Responsibilities as a partner have included drafting of agreements and memoranda pertaining to all aspects of corporate affairs, as well as financing transactions. He has also acted as a consultant to governmental departments with respect to significant projects requiring advice on all corporate, commercial and property laws in force in Pakistan.
Romulo
Mabanta Buenaventura Sayoc & De Los Angeles
Philippines
30th Floor, Citibank Tower, 8741 Paseo de Roxas,
Makati City, Philippines
Tel +632 8480114 Fax +632 8103110
Web www.rmbsa.net Email
rmbsa@rmbsa.com
Hong Kong
4206 Far East Finance Center, 16 Harcourt Road,
Hong Kong
Cynthia
Roxas-Del Castillo
Partner
Cynthia is a partner in the law firm of Romulo Mabanta Buenaventura Sayoc & De Los Angeles and has been with the firm for over 20 years. She served as Dean of the Law School of the Ateneo De Manila University from 1990 to 2000 and is a Professor of Civil Law. She is the partner in charge of both the Piltel and Bayantel restructuring teams and currently serves as the court appointed receiver for Prime East Properties, Inc.
Connie obtained her JD Degree from the Ateneo De Manila University, graduating as Class Salutatorian with honors, and her Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of San Carlos, with Latin Honours. She placed second in the 2002 Philippine Bar Examinations and is an associate in the law firm of Romulo Mabanta Buenaventura Sayoc & De Los Angeles.
7th
Floor,Wisma Hamzah-Kwong Hing, No. 1,
Leboh Ampang, 50100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Tel +603 2070 0644 Fax +603 2034 2763
Web www.shearndelamore.com
6th Floor,Wisma Penang Garden, No. 42, Jalan
Sultan
Ahmad Shah, 10050 Penang, Malaysia
Tel +604 226 7062 Fax + 604 227 5166
Rabindra
Nathan
Partner
Email rabindra@shearndelamore.com
Rabindra Nathan is a partner in the Banking and Insolvency Litigation Practice Group of the Dispute Resolution Department of Shearn Delamore & Co. He graduated in 1986 with an LLB (Hons) from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and in 1988 with an LLM from the University of Cambridge in the UK. He deals with a broad range of banking and insolvency litigation, as well as corporate litigation, corporate restructuring and advisory work on insolvency-related aspects of derivatives. He was a Consultant for Malaysia to the Asian Development Bank on Asian Insolvency Law Reform (1998 – 1999).
80
Raffles Place, #58-01 UOB Plaza 1,
Singapore 048624
Tel +65 6416 8000 Fax +65 6532 5722
Web www.wongpartnership.com.sg
Email wonglaw@singnet.com.sg
Nish Shetty
Partner
Email nks@wongpartnership.com.sg
Nish Shetty practises in WONGPARTNERSHIP’s insolvency, litigation and arbitration practice groups. His main areas of practice are litigation and arbitration, encompassing banking and commercial transactions, corporate and shareholder disputes, insolvency, receivership and judicial management, construction and civil engineering claims and defamation.
Nish has been involved in many major deals, including representing Deutsche Bank and BNP Paribas against Asia Pulp and Paper Company in an internationally publicised insolvency action; representing bondholders in respect of the restructuring of a Singapore-incorporated company with hotel and leisure assets in Indonesia, with an estimated debt exposure in excess of S$100 million; and representing the receivers and managers in the receivership involving Failsafe Corporation.
He graduated from the National University of Singapore and was admitted to the Singapore Bar in 1995. He was admitted as a Solicitor of England and Wales in 2000.
Nish speaks regularly at local and regional seminars and conferences and contributes articles to leading publications on insolvency, arbitration and construction law.