Middle East Restructuring and Refinancing Conference
Date:
28 September 2009 - 29 September 2009
Venue:
Fairmont, Dubai
The credit crunch has drastically affected banks’ lending capacity to the Middle East during 2009. Institutions, who in the past have had had access to multiple lines of credit, are now struggling to meet their repayment obligations to creditors, and seeking advice to restructure their corporate debt.
Euromoney Seminars’ Middle East Restructuring and Refinancing Conference will be your chance to hear from leading practitioners about their experiences arranging the first restructurings in the region and the challenges they faced along the way. The conference will provide you with a unique insight into legal, regulatory and cultural complexities of arranging a Middle East restructuring, investor strategies and solutions to restructuring Islamic transactions.
Key issues to be discussed include:
- What do we mean by restructuring in the Middle East and how are they being played out?
- Update on insolvency regimes across Middle East jurisdictions
- Why this recession is fuelling a boom in restructuring activity and how it is affecting the Middle East economies
- Challenges borrowers and creditors are facing amidst current market volatility
- Corporate recovery vs. insolvency – why restructurings are advantageous to all parties
- Successfully negotiating a turnaround – case studies and applications to the Middle East
- Understanding legal enforcement and court procedures when corporate disputes result in litigation
- Private equity on the search for undervalued assets – who are the turnaround investors and what are their strategies?
- How does an Islamic restructuring play out differently to a conventional restructuring?
- Restructuring construction and project finance deals – developer and creditor options and solutions
Restructuring activity in the Middle East is set to take-off, make sure you are at the forefront of this exciting new market by joining us in September.