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Ian Innes

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Serhiy Chrony (Managing Partner, Kyiv) and Paul Melling (founding partner, former Moscow office) both of Baker McKenzie, and Daniel Thoniley (President, DT Global Business Consulting) spoke about issues in banking and finance and restructuring in Ukraine and Russia since the escalation of hostilities in February 2022. Serhiy and Paul reflected on their personal experiences in those respective countries since February, but also of the sense of optimism in Ukraine. State-owned Ukrainian banks have not been…

The construction sector has long suffered from narrow margins, inappropriate risk allocation and cyclical bouts of insolvency. Jon Davies, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Constructors Association (ACA), spoke today about the challenges facing the Australian construction industry, with a call for cultural change under the attention grabbing title ‘Disrupt or die’. Issue significantly affecting the sector include: labour shortages, exacerbated by constrained migration of skilled workers needed by the sector;falling productivity (a massive decline…