The Future of Cross-Border Insolvency Overcoming Biases and Closing Gaps

Irit Mevorach, Professor of International Commercial Law, University of Nottingham,

Irit Mevorach is Professor of International Commercial Law at the University of Nottingham. From 1998-2003, Irit practised at Lipa Meir & Co, Tel-Aviv. Since 2006 Irit has been an expert adviser to the UK delegation to UNCITRAL. In 2013, she was appointed Senior Counsel to the World Bank. In that capacity, she has advised governments of some ten countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean on the reform of business, personal insolvency, and creditor/debtor systems, and has led the Bank's Global Task Force on Insolvency and Creditor Rights. Her book Insolvency within Multinational Enterprise Groups (OUP, 2009) won the Edwin-Co/INSOL Europe Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship (2010).