April 26, 2021
Restructure with Foresight: Russia, CEE & CIS
Webinar in Partnership with Debtwire
DATE: Thursday, 27 April 2021
TIME: 14:00 MSK | 12:00 BST
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have been both global and profound but Russian issuers largely managed to avoid defaults in 2020, using a window of opportunity in the second half of the year to refinance their liabilities. The full outcome of the crisis remains to be seen, however. Closures of small retail and entertainment businesses will likely increase NPL levels in local banks, while transportation, oil and gas and metals and mining businesses have all been affected during the pandemic.
On 27 April, in partnership with Debtwire, we hosted a live webinar for the Emerging Markets Restructuring Series, covering the CEE, Russia & the CIS markets.
The live webinar focused on:
- CEE & Russia: banking and corporate restructuring outlook
- Belarus: debt servicing during the crisis
- Restructuring remotely and the role of technology
Register today to view the on-demand replay.
PANELISTS
Ashley Messick
Partner, GPW Sovereign Debt Advisors
BioAshley Messick
Partner, GPW Sovereign Debt Advisors
Ashley Messick is a partner at the corporate intelligence firm GPW. She leads the firm’s London-based dispute consulting team and is the head of GPW Sovereign Debt Advisors. Ashley is an acknowledged expert in asset recovery and global investigations with a particular focus on providing investigative support in relation to large-scale sovereign and corporate restructurings, fraud and debt recovery initiatives.
Laura Brank
Managing Partner, Head of the Russia Practice, Dechert
BioLaura Brank
Managing Partner, Head of the Russia Practice, Dechert
Laura M. Brank, the head of Dechert’s Russia practice and the managing partner of the Moscow office, has been advising corporations, investment funds, banks, multinational institutions, and high net worth individuals on complex corporate and finance transactions for nearly three decades. She has provided strategic legal advice to clients on their business activities in Russia and throughout the Former Soviet Union (“FSU”) since 1995, supervising major local and cross-border M&A, joint venture, and debt and equity financing transactions. She frequently counsels clients on compliance and sanctions matters and is a sought out speaker on these subjects. Ms. Brank has written extensively on issues affecting business in emerging markets and has lectured at various universities including Columbia University, Georgetown University (both at the law school and at the school of foreign service) and Peking University and also teaches a course at Pericles on economic sanctions to LLM students.
Markus Schiller
Head of DACH and CEE, Datasite
BioMarkus Schiller
Head of DACH and CEE, Datasite
Markus Schiller is Head of DACH, CEE and CIS at Datasite Germany GmbH.
He has supported the transformation to Datasite over the past four years and has led the Frankfurt office since 2017. Prior to his time at Datasite, Markus worked in the financial sector, as Sales Manager Europe for Trading Technologies and account manager at Thomson Reuters. In 2016, he co-founded the technology start-up Evo Fintech.
He holds an MBA from Purdue University (US) and a BA from the University of Oregon (US).
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