Cape Town Convention Academic Project Conference 2019

This reports on the above session, held on 10 September 2019 at the Cape Town Convention Academic Project Conference. The panelists for the session were Professor John Pottow (University of Michigan), Mr William Piels (Partner, Holland & Knight, San Francisco) and Mr Henry Nahm (recent graduate of Columbia Law School and entering Associate, Millbank, New York). The session was chaired by Professor Jeffrey Wool (University of Washington and University of Oxford). The session focused on a specific but impactful set of issues arising and judicially addressed in cross-border insolvency proceedings involving a Brazilian airline, Oceanair Linhas Aereas S/A (‘Oceanair’).