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We have the privilege to co-organize a conference in Trier (Germany) with the renowned Europäische Rechtsakademie (ERA) on 11 and 12 May 2023. The title of the 2-day conference is Corporate Rescue and Insolvency (see the programme) and will be of great interest to our members. It is a meeting point of practitioners and academics in the best possible framework.
As co-organizers, we can offer our members special rates, a flat rate of EUR 500.—for IEAF members. In order to take advantage of that rate, go to the website ERA – Academy of European Law > Corporate Rescue and Insolvency, select the standard rate and the enter the Code 2023IAEF123D26 in the ‘comments’ field. The following confirmation will show the full price, but the bill will show the reduced rate of EUR 500.—Payment upon billing is the only payment method available.
Please note that also non-academic members of INSOL Europe have a 25% discount on the rate, by submitting the code 123D26_INSOL25 (this means until 11.4. 627 Euro instead of 930 Euro).
We hope that many of you take the opportunity to attend the conference in Trier and reinforce our visibility in the European insolvency world.
The Academic Forum of INSOL Europe held its 18th Annual Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on Wednesday 5 October – Thursday 6 October 2022, immediately prior to INSOL Europe's main Congress which took place ifrom 6 to 8 October, 2022. The overall conference theme was “Insolvency Law in Times of Crisis”. You can read a report of the event here.
Academic Forum sponsored by
The Emerging New Landscape of
European Restructuring and Insolvency
Dear Colleagues and Friends
It is with great excitement that I present to you the programme of the INSOL Europe Academic Conference to be held in Dublin on 2 and 3 March 2022.
When the Academic Forum last met in Copenhagen in October 2019, little did we know that it will take more than two years for us to reunite. As we all know now, those two years were unlike anything any of us has seen or lived through, both personally and professionally.
In the latter context, our bread-and-butter tools of insolvency law have unprecedentedly been "switched off" across Europe for a good part of 2020. And contrary to common wisdom, the follow-up wave of restructurings and insolvencies widely expected as the result of the pandemic simply did not arrive in 2021.
Yet legal development did not stop: the pandemic did not switch-off the clock measuring the time to the 2022 deadline for the implementation of the European Restructuring Directive. Nor did it prevent European academics from applying their minds to that topic and other questions in our field of enquiry. Quite the contrary. Our call for papers for the Dublin conference met with an overwhelmingly positive response, resulting in the INSOL Europe Academic Forum Board selecting from close to 30 very thoughtful paper proposals. We are very thankful to all authors who have replied to the call.
The selection that we proudly present to you here testifies to the breadth and depth of insolvency and restructuring research conducted in Europe today, and to the unique role which our Academic Forum plays in giving that research an outlet. A brief look at our programme should leave no one in doubt that the INSOL Europe Academic Forum is where cutting-edge insolvency and restructuring research is presented and debated, in a way that is relevant not only to academics but to lawyers and others practicing in the field as well.
We hope that you will agree and come and join us in Dublin in March.
Tomáš Richter
Chair, INSOL Europe Academic Forum
Read a full report of the conference here.
View the Wednesday presentation slides here.
View the Thursday presentation slides here.
Academic Forum kindly sponsored by
1 December 2021
Nuria Bermejo is Professor on Commercial Law (“Profesora Titular”) at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) since 2008. From March 2008 to October 2015, she was Legal Secretary (“Référendaire”) at the EU General Court (Luxembourg). She has lectured in other Spanish universities, as well as in European higher education institutions and South-American universities. Read a report of the conference by Paul Omar and Myriam Mailly here.
Watch a video of the conference here:
'Harmonizing Insolvency Regimes in the Prism of European Investment Law'
By Prof. Antonio Leandro
Presentation slides are available here.
Antonio Leandro is Associate Professor of International Law at the Department of Economics, Management and Business Law of the University of Bari (Italy) with National Scientific Qualification as a Full Professor. He mainly focuses its professional activity on private international law, cross-border insolvency, international arbitration, and international and European investment law. His bibliography includes three books, four co-editions, and some more 170 papers among notes, commentaries, articles and book chapters. He sits in the editorial boards of various journals and is co-director of a scientific series. He has been member of the EC Group of experts on the attachment of bank accounts. He is: conferee of the CERIL (Conference on European Restructuring and Insolvency Law); member of the International Insolvency Institute; coordinator of the Study Group on Cross-border Insolvency and National Legal Orders for the Italian branch of the International Law Association. He served as trainer for the European Judicial Training Network. He cooperated with the Committee appointed by the Italian Ministry of Justice with the task to revise the Italian insolvency law. 
Gerard (Gerry) McCormack is a Professor of International Business Law at the University of Leeds in the UK, a Visiting Professor at the University of Vaasa in Finland and INSOL International Scholar for 2020/2021. He has also led and worked on a number of international and comparative research projects. He has researched and published extensively on insolvency and secured credit law and particularly the international and comparative dimensions of the subject.This year the Academic Forum's Annual Conference was held on-line with two highly relevant papers by Professors Horst Eidenmüller and Kristin Van Zwieten, both of University of Oxford, and by Lydia Tsioli of King's College London. Read the conference report by Paul Omar and Myriam Mailly here.
Watch a video of the conference here:
An outline of the Academic Forum Online Conference 2020 is available here as well as the final technical programme here.
Download here the presentation slides of Session 1: Stabilizing Corporate Workouts (Out-Of-Court Restructurings) in Times of the COVID 19-Pandemic and Beyond: The Case for Creditor Cooperation Duties
Download here the presentation slides of Session 2: Viability Assessment: Models and filtering mechanisms from U.S. Chapter 11 to the European Directive
Download a report of the Q&A session here.
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