From the Chair
Nancy Valentine, Ice Miller LLP, IWIRC Chair
IWIRC has started the twenty-fourth year of its mission to support and connect women in the insolvency industry worldwide. Our mission remains critically important in assisting women with their professional development, including providing leadership and business development opportunities. The Women’s Marches in Washington D.C., across the United States, and around the world on January 21, 2017, highlighted not only the power of women to lead across an array of political issues and beliefs, but also underscored the importance of networks of women working together, supporting each other, and having a dialogue with one another. The founders of IWIRC understood this necessity and IWIRC lives and breathes this mission today.
In 2017, IWIRC internationally, regionally, and locally has a wide array of programs to continue to bring women from across the world together and has many opportunities for you to recognize your colleagues and stand out IWIRC members and networks. Currently, nominations are open for The Melnik Award for Exceptional IWIRC Member (after our founder Selinda Melnik), the Fetner Award for Outstanding International IWIRC Member (after our founding Vice Chair Martha Fetner), and the Ryan Award for the Network that best exemplified IWIRC in 2016 (after IWIRC founding Secretary/Treasurer Laureen Ryan). We hope you will take advantage of these nominating opportunities before March 3, 2017.
IWIRC is also providing leadership, education, and input across the continents. In December 2016, in Vienna, IWIRC again participated in UNCITRAL’s Working Group V, including Beth Hansen, Carren Shulman, Tinamarie Feil, Debra Grassgreen, and Eloise Fardon, to provide material comments and opinions on two issues of cross-border insolvency law currently under review at the meeting through the UNCITRAL member states. Our PAC RIM networks have added IWIRC Malaysia and its seven members to their roster, and other PAC RIM members are reporting on India’s new bankruptcy court and law in this submission of the newsletter. IWIRC New York just hosted a webinar on environmental claims and obligations in Chapter 11,
The International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation
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Volume 23, Number 1
March 2017
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
IWIRC Strategic Planning Survey.......2
UNCITRAL Report......4
Network News..........5
Member Spotlight..14
Feature Article.......15
Member News........19
Upcoming Network Activities................22
Welcome IWIRC New Members................23
2016 Sponsors................26
Save the Date!........29
SPONSORS
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Nancy Valentine
IWIRC Chair
Ice Miller LLP
Alexandra CC Schnapp
IWIRC Newsletter Director
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Georgia