2023 MENA Forum on Insolvency Reform

In addition to the primary focus of developing and implementing insolvency, restructuring regimes across the MENA region, this “First MENA Forum” will analyze and address a diverse range of topics, including courts specialization in bankruptcy issues, tracing and recovery of assets, preventive action to save viable firms, capacity building for judges and judicial e-learning tools, the use of mediation and other ADR tools in large, medium and small insolvency.

Pillsbury's Patrick Potter will participate in a panel discussing medium and small  restructurings, chaired by Andres Martinez, a Senior Financial Sector Specialist from The World Bank Group.

Mr. Potter will speak on Sub-Chapter V of Chapter 11, which became effective in the U.S. in 2020, and covers chapter 11 debtors whose fixed non-insider debts are $7.5 million or less.  Mr. Potter’s co-panelists will be Judge Nehad Al-Hussban, President of Amman Court of First Instance in Jordan, Judge Mohommed Abdel-Aal, Chief of High Court of Appeal (and Secretary General of the Supreme Committee for Legislative Reform in Egypt), and Attorney Lucas Kortmann, a partner with the insolvency and restructuring law firm RESOR, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.