The IRDA at 5 Years: Key R&I Insights and Actionable Takeaways

In celebration of the 5th Anniversary of the IRDA’s commencement, this seminar offers insights and actionable take-aways from a comprehensive review of Singapore's Restructuring & Insolvency landscape. We have meticulously analysed all published court decisions and significant statutory changes since 2020, along with the 2025 Committee recommendations. This course distils this extensive research and our collective practical experience into clear and actionable takeaways, key data points and practical perspectives. Participants will gain a clear and practical understanding of emerging trends and critical developments across key topics, including cross-border insolvency, schemes of arrangement, judicial management, winding-up (including the SIP 2.0), receivership, bankruptcy, director duties, asset recovery, and the evolving treatment of digital assets. We will focus on equipping practitioners with concise and strategic knowledge to effectively navigate the current and future R&I environment.

Our learning objectives:

• Grasp the key statutory and regulatory shifts in Singapore R&I since July 2020 and the core implications of upcoming reform proposal.
• Identify and understand key data points and practical takeaways from significant R&I court decisions over the past five years, across key topics.
• Recognise the key considerations in emerging areas like digital asset insolvencies, and the interaction between arbitration and R&I.
• Apply distilled insights to enhance your R&I practice and navigate common practical issues.

Date & Time:

16 July 2025 | Wednesday | 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Course Fees

• Member: S$300.00
• Non-Member: S$360.00

Please register and pay by 14 July 2025. Zoom access details will be included in the event confirmation email. Course handout (if any) will be emailed to participants on the day of the course.

SILE Accredited CPD Activity

• Public CPD Points: 3
• Practice Area: Corporate / Commercial
• Training Level: Intermediate

Accountants will be issued with a Certificate of Attendance (Category 4).

Speakers

Mitchell Yeo, Director, Drew & Napier LLC

Mitchell Yeo is a Director of the Corporate Restructuring & Workouts practice at Drew & Napier LLC.

Bringing over a decade of experience to complex, high-stakes debt restructurings and insolvencies, Mitchell has been actively involved in some of the largest restructurings in Asia including those in relation to Pacific International Lines, Pacific Radiance, critical billion-dollar infrastructure projects previously owned by Hyflux, and an investment arm in a large Chinese conglomerate.

Mitchell’s experience spans advising diverse stakeholders, including debtor groups, investors, insolvency office-holders, and financial creditors, and on both transactional and contentious aspects, which encompasses formal insolvency administrations and related disputes.

David Kim, Partner, KordaMentha

David Kim is a Partner of KordaMentha and has over 18 years’ experience in corporate recovery, restructuring and insolvency engagements with extensive international working experience in jurisdictions including Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Indonesia and the Offshore Islands.

A licensed insolvency practitioner in Singapore and an INSOL Fellow, he has extensive experience in administration, receivership, liquidation and judicial management engagements in diverse industries including oil and gas, shipping, manufacturing, retail and digital assets. Some engagements of note include the judicial management of Petrofac South East Asia, Liberty House Group and Dermatology & Surgery Clinics, financial advisors to Zipmex, liquidator of companies associated with Wirecard and liquidator of Robinsons Department Stores.

David is able to communicate in Korean and has also advised companies and creditors in matters in South Korea.

SILE Attendance Policy:

Participants who wish to obtain CPD Points are reminded that they must comply strictly with the Attendance Policy set out in the CPD Guidelines. For this activity, this includes logging in at the start of the webinar and logging out at the conclusion of the webinar in the manner required by the organiser, and not being away from the entire activity for more than 15 minutes. Participants who do not comply with the Attendance Policy will not be able to obtain CPD Points for attending the activity. Please refer to http://www.sileCPDcentre.sg for more information.