Speaker details

IBA Annual Conference Sydney 2017

8 Oct - 13 Oct 2017

Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Speaker information

Leon Zwier

Biography

Leon Zwier is a corporate recovery services lawyer and partner of Arnold Bloch Leibler. He is head of the firm’s restructuring & insolvency practice. Leon has acted as lead counsel in many of Australia’s largest and most complex restructurings and workouts. He has advised and negotiated on behalf of major US and European enterprises with Australian interests across numerous industries in the resolution of complex cross-border reconstructions. He has also acted for insolvency practitioners, lenders and companies in the ‘twilight zone’ of solvency. Significant matters in which Leon has been involved include Ansett, Sons of Gwalia, One.Tel, Alinta, Lehman Bros., Timbercorp, Gunns, Centro Nine Entertainment, Boart Longyear and NewSat.

Session

Recognition of insolvency decisions/foreign office-holders in Australia

Thursday 12 October (1430 - 1545)

Room C4.10, Convention Centre, Level 4

Session Co-Chair

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