Professor Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal

Professor in Banking and Finance Law, Queen Mary University of London

Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal is a Professor in Banking and Finance Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) at Queen Mary University of London. Prior to joining CCLS he was a Senior Lecturer in Financial Law and the Academic Director at the Centre for Financial and Management Studies (SOAS), University of London and the School of Law, University of Warwick. He taught in undergraduate and postgraduate courses in various Schools of Law and Business Schools in the United Kingdom, Spain, Greece, France and Argentina as well as in professional training courses in Africa, Asia and Europe.

Rodrigo has acted as a Sovereign Debt Expert for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Senior Insolvency Expert for the World Bank / IFC and as a consultant to several multilateral institutions in Washington DC and Europe, Central Banks and Sovereign States as well as in several international transactions with Law Firms. He specialises in international finance and insolvency law. He is the author/editor of seven books and has extensively published in peer-reviewed journals. He sits in the editorial/advisory board of several law journals in the UK and US and is a member of national and international institutions and associations specialised in comparative commercial and insolvency law.

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Collective action clauses

Practice Notes

Restructuring & Insolvency

General issues in sovereign debt restructuring

Practice Notes

This Practice Note, produced in partnership with Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal, Professor in Banking and Finance Law at Queen Mary University of London and Principal of Pari Passu Consulting Ltd, covers sources of sovereign debt financing, difficulties with sovereign debt restructuring, the aim of sovereign debt restructuring and lessons from the Greek sovereign debt restructuring, including the use of exit consents and collective action clauses (CACs).

Restructuring & Insolvency

Litigation issues in sovereign debt

Practice Notes

This Practice Note, produced in partnership with Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal, Professor in Banking and Finance Law at Queen Mary University of London and Principal of Pari Passu Consulting Ltd, looks at litigation issues arising in sovereign debt situations, including deciding which country to take enforcement action in, sovereign or state immunity and enforcing a judgment against a sovereign.

Restructuring & Insolvency

Transactional aspects of sovereign debt restructuring

Practice Notes

This Practice Note, produced in association with Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal, Professor in Banking and Finance Law at Queen Mary University of London and Principal of Pari Passu Consulting Ltd, covers sovereign debt restructuring techniques, particularly collective action clauses (or CACs), the Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism (SDRM) and exit consents.

Restructuring & Insolvency