Current restructuring and bankruptcy regimes: case studies from Canada, the Cayman Islands and Poland

The owner and CEO of ) Restructuring and Bankruptcy Business Center ltd. (RBBC brand). Jagoda is specialized in dealing with cases involving bankruptcies and restructuring, both as the authority in liquidation and restructuring proceedings (receiver, administrator, court supervisor) and out-of-court advisor providing comprehensive legal services to developing national and overseas business entities. In 2018 Jagoda also worked in her profession in an international investment management corporation– BlackRock. She is an active member of the professional association of Licensed Restructuring Advisors of the Polish Chamber of Licensed Restructuring Advisors as well as an Officer of the Insolvency Section of the International Bar Association (IBA), which refers to the international association of lawyers interested in restructuring, bankruptcy law, creditors’ rights as well as affiliated company law, trading behaviour and market and procedural practices.

Cliff is a member of the Alberta and Nova Scotia Bars, a Queen’s Counsel (QC), and a valued legal educator. His experience and expertise include banking and financial services law, insolvency and restructuring, and commercial litigation. Cliff taught the Unsecured Creditors’ Remedies and the Bankruptcy and Restructuring Law courses in the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary and the Business Law course in the Bissett School of Business at Mount Royal University. He is a regular consultant to the Canadian Centre for Professional Legal Education (CPLED), a non-profit organization that offers the Bar admission program in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Nova Scotia. Cliff’s recent book is Aspects of Banking and Financial Services Law (Toronto: LexisNexis Canada, 2021).

Amelia is a senior associate in the litigation, insolvency and restructuring team of Carey Olsen in Singapore. She has a broad range of experience in commercial litigation, with a focus on complex, multi-jurisdictional shareholder related litigation, corporate disputes and insolvency and restructuring matters. Her practice includes acting in relation to unfair prejudice claims, derivative actions and the liquidation and winding up of offshore private companies, and she has represented clients in the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Privy Council. She also regularly advises listed companies and financial institutions in the region. Amelia has been involved in many of the leading decisions in the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court and has successfully acted for clients in complex factual and legal disputes involving novel issues of law. Amelia is fluent in English and Mandarin and also sits on the Board of Directors of the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), Singapore Network. Amelia practised in another leading offshore firm in Singapore before joining Carey Olsen in 2019. Prior to moving offshore in 2017, Amelia was an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore and practised at one of the largest leading Singapore law firm where she gained extensive experience in international arbitration, corporate and shareholder litigation, trade and commodities disputes and insolvency related matters. Amelia is admitted as a solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (BVI) and is enrolled as a Registered Associate in the Supreme Court of Bermuda. She is also admitted as a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales (non-practising).