Financial Crisis Management: U.S. Advisors’ Guide to Navigating Europe’s Liability Risks and Enhancing Outcomes
Includes a Live Web Event on 09/11/2025 at 2:00 PM (EDT)
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In this session, U.S. advisors will gain valuable insights into the European legal requirements for early financial crisis detection systems, the personal liability risks executives face if these obligations are not fulfilled, and how to navigate them. As crisis management becomes increasingly vital, we will explore how U.S. clients can safeguard themselves from liability by ensuring compliance with these key regulations and effective use of restructuring strategies and tools. You will learn how to support your clients in navigating the complex legal landscapes of countries like Germany, France, and the UK, helping them establish effective crisis detection and management systems that reduce risks and lead to positive business outcomes.
Additionally, we will discuss how to strengthen your role as a trusted advisor in cross-border restructuring efforts. Through real-world examples and practical solutions, this session will equip you with the knowledge and tools to help your clients stay compliant, manage risks, and thrive in the European market.
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This live program offers free CLE in select jurisdictions for members of ACC. Please see details below!
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District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, South Dakota
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LockedGlen Flannery
Global Co-leader of the Restructuring & Insolvency Group
CMS
Glen is a Partner in our Restructuring & Insolvency team. He co-heads CMS’s restructuring & insolvency group. He qualified in 2003 and became a partner in the business in 2007.
Glen advises boards of directors, debtors, creditors, insolvency practitioners, investors in distressed assets, and a variety of other stakeholders, at all stages of the decline and recovery curves.
This includes advising on directors' duties, restructuring plans, contingency planning, security package enhancements and enforcement, distressed asset sales and acquisitions, non-performing loan acquisitions and work-outs, loan-to-own strategies, solvent reconstructions, counterparty insolvency issues, mitigation of insolvency risk in transactions, insolvency investigations and insolvency related claims.
During his career, Glen has guided many boards and helped multiple clients to structure and implement successful business rescues. Among a wide spectrum of cases, he has led complex debtor-side restructuring projects for British Steel, Harland & Wolff, Costcutter, Hoover and UK Coal.
Glen has also led many major international and cross-border mandates, involving use of the European Insolvency Regulation, the UNCITRAL model law on insolvency and other cross-border tools. He often helps overseas clients to resolve UK and cross-border conflict of law issues. Past cases include Gazprom, Hydrodec, Lowcosttravelgroup, Stanford International Bank, Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander, Lehman Brothers, the Niton Fund, Eurodis and Crisscross/Dynegy.
Dr. Alexandra Schluck-Amend
Partner
CMS
Alexandra Schluck-Amend specialises in corporate and insolvency law. She advises on reorganisations and restructurings, with a focus on the preparation and implementation of reorganisation concepts both in out-of-court restructurings (including pre-insolvency restructuring proceedings according to the German Corporate Stabilisation and Restructuring Act) and during insolvency proceedings. She advises corporate groups on internal and external financing and reorganisations as well as on distressed M&A. This often involves avoiding liability risks for the parent company, other group companies and their management teams and boards in the event of a subsequent insolvency or sale of a participating group company. Alexandra also advises creditors of insolvent companies or companies in crisis on the best possible enforcement of their interests and the appropriate strategies in crisis and insolvency situations. Her practice also covers avoidance matters, risk-reducing behaviour and ESG advice, with a focus on corporate governance and risk compliance. Alexandra has special automotive as well as energy sector expertise.
Alexandra joined CMS in 2002 after her business administration and law studies and after having worked at Deutsche Bundesbank as well as in insolvency administration and academia. She was made partner in 2008 and has been heading the firm’s Restructuring & Insolvency practice since 2018.
Alexandra also teaches at the University of Heidelberg (since 2002), at Andrassy University Budapest (since 2005), where she was appointed honorary professor in 2013, and at the University of Nuertingen-Geislingen (since 2012).
