With deep sorrow I am reporting about the death, on 15 March 2019, of my dear colleague Gabriel Moss QC. Gabriel has had a remarkable career as a practitioner, with a clever and unrivalled grasp on the practical as well as the academic dimensions of especially international insolvency law. We met in the early 2000s both being speakers at several… Read More »2019-03-doc7 Passing away of Gabriel Moss QC
Prof. em. Ian F. Fletcher QC (hc) Obituary With great sadness I report the passing away of a dear friend and colleague, Ian Fletcher, on 21 July 2018. He was 74. I will commemorate him on another occasion more fully, but I wish to express here that in particular the world of international insolvency law has lost a giant. I… Read More »2018-07-doc3 Passing away of prof. Ian F. Fletcher
I am saddened by the news that on 11 January Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, has passed away. He was, among many other things, also a Professor of Law at Yale, the University of Chicago, and the University of California, Berkeley. In the USA he was a leading figure in… Read More »2018-01-doc11 Passing away of Professor Hazard
Bruce Leonard, one of the most influential and respected lawyers in the field of international insolvency law, has passed away. Bruce has been an esteemed lawyer in Canada, but non-Canadians know him best as the auctor intellectualis, founder and chair for many years of the International Insolvency Institute (III). III presently is a non-profit limited-membership invitational association of over 300… Read More »2017-01-doc10 Passing of Bruce Leonard
With great sadness I inform about the death of Stephen Adamson CBE. He is an insolvency veteran from England, but with global experience. See below, his obituary from Global Restructuring Review of 10 January 2017. I learned he died in October last year. In the 90s I was a young partner of Ernst & Young (EY now) and I remember… Read More »2017-01-doc5 Passing of Stephen Adamson
Last Monday, I received the sad news that Harvey Miller had passed away. He was 82. Undoubtedly, Harvey Miller is one of the giants in bankruptcy practice in the USA. With a short period outside the firm, he has been a partner of Weil Gotshal & Manges for close to 50 years. Harvey Miller was one of the first partners… Read More »2015-04-doc9 Passing of Harvey Miller