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IBA Annual Conference Sydney 2017

8 Oct - 13 Oct 2017

Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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Kirsten Schümann-Kleber

Biography

Dr Kirsten Schümann-Kleber is a partner in the area of financing/financial restructuring at the German law firm GÖRG. She focuses on offering advice to a variety of stakeholders in distress or when facing insolvency of their subsidiaries or (potential) contractual partners. At the same time, she regularly works in complex finance and refinancing transactions. The vast majority of the clients managed by Dr Kirsten Schümann-Kleber have cross-border elements. Before starting at GÖRG, Dr Kirsten Schümann-Kleber worked as a lawyer at a large international firm, initially in Berlin and then in Frankfurt. After studying law at the University of Dresden, Dr Kirsten Schümann-Kleber gained a Master of Law degree at Emory University (USA). She then took the bar exam in New York (USA) and completed her legal training in Berlin. In parallel, she gained a doctorate at the University of Dresden. She has been certified as a lawyer in Berlin and attorney at law in New York (USA) since 2001.

Session

Trading when the darkness starts, with a focus on funding companies in the twilight zone

Monday 9 October (1430 - 1600)

Room C3.4, Convention Centre, Level 3

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