A Tale of Sovereign Restructurings: Venezuela and the CITGO Saga

Session Description: 
Discussion on the developments of Venezuela's indefinitely postponed external debt restructuring process and the individual execution efforts over the country’s most valuable assets in the US—CITGO’s network of downstream assets—in the context of the Crystallex litigation in Delaware. The session would highlight the tension between “first come / first served” principles guiding the current stream of individual enforcement / execution, and the creditor coordination features of a pure insolvency proceeding.
Learning Outcomes: 
The session will provide clarity on the status of the ongoing melee of court cases going after Venezuela's assets abroad, in the zoom-out context of the prospects for a broad, all-encompassing, debt restructuring process
Target Audience: 
Creditor
Suggested Speakers: 
Roland
Pettersson
Suzzanne
Uhland
Richard
Levin
First Name: 
Roland
Last Name: 
Pettersson
Firm: 
D'Empaire