Speaker details

IBA Annual Conference Sydney 2017

8 Oct - 13 Oct 2017

Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Speaker information

Joanna Gumpelson

Biography

Joanna Gumpelson’s main areas of expertise are insolvency proceedings and debt-restructuring. She represents French and foreign investment funds, banks, as well as lease-finance and factoring institutions, bondholders or suppliers, etc. She also regularly represents French or foreign issuers, in particular in the context of failing LBOs. She is also handling – jointly with partners of the litigation group headed by Paul Talbourdet – commercial, banking and finance litigation cases. Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2002, she graduated from HEC Paris (2000) and holds an advanced degree (DESS) in Tax and Business law from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (2000). She joined De Pardieu Brocas Maffei’s Restructuring & Insolvency team in 2002. She was appointed counsel in 2009, before being co-opted as Partner in 2014. Joanna Gumpelson was elected as “Lawyer of the Year 2017” by Best Lawyers in Restructuring and Reorganization Law, “Women Leaders for France” by IFLR1000 since 2018, as well as “Juriste HEC 2014” . Joanna is also recognized by the 2016 “Who’s who Legal – Restructuring & Insolvency”. She is a member of the Society of Turnaround Professionals (Association pour le Retournement des Entreprises – ARE). Vice Chair of the Financial Institutions Subcommittee IBA (2017-2018). She is also co-author of several articles in her practice areas: « Du comité à la classe de créanciers : modalités de vote et de décision des créanciers seniors en France et aux Etats-Unis » Bulletin Joly Entreprises en Difficulté, July 2018; “Restructuring and insolvency handbook: France”, Practical Law Company, every year since 2005; “Claw-back of security in insolvency (France)”, IBA, Banking Law Committee project, March 2012; “Debt-equity swaps in France: recent developments“, Practical Law Multi-Jurisdictional Guide 2012/2013; “International Insolvency: France”, The European Lawyer Reference, November 2012; “Restructurations de LBO Le charme discret de la prévention”, Option Droit et Affaires, December 2011; “The European Restructuring and Insolvency Guide 2005/2006”, sponsored by PriceWaterhouse Coopers; “Multinational Enterprise Liability in Insolvency Proceedings” edited by J.W. Boone, Alston & Bird, January 2010; Regular contributions to the IBA‘s Newsletter.