2025 Vienna Annual Congress

It is with great pleasure that we warmly invite you to our next and 44th Annual Congress from Thursday 9 to Sunday 12 October 2025 in Vienna (Austria) called The City of Dreams!

Vienna, the capital of Austria, is located in the northeastern part of the country, near the borders with Slovakia, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. Nestled along the Danube River and surrounded by the eastern foothills of the Alps, the city enjoys a strategic position at the crossroads of Central and Eastern Europe. This location has historically made Vienna a centre for trade, diplomacy, and cultural exchange.

The timeless city of music and movement, Vienna offers a poetic stage for our 2025 Annual Congress titled “A Waltz Through Insolvency: Lessons from the Past, Steps into the Future.” Renowned as the birthplace of the waltz, Vienna evokes images of graceful turns, precise timing, and elegant transitions, an apt metaphor for the evolving choreography of insolvency law. Just as dancers must learn from each step before confidently moving forward, so must legal systems reflect on past frameworks to design resilient, future-oriented solutions.

The conference’s theme resonates with Vienna’s dual spirit: a reverence for tradition paired with a readiness to lead change. Here, delegates will not only reflect on insolvency regimes past and present, but - much like dancers in a grand Viennese ballroom - will take deliberate, harmonized steps into a more coherent and dynamic future for European insolvency law.

Topics will include:

• Happy 10th anniversary Recast EIR!
• Between Brick and Debt: Restructuring Strategies for Real Estate Companies in a Downturn
• Status of the shareholder in restructuring procedures
• Financiers’ Trends to Watch
• Failure to Prevent
• Valuation in restructuring
• The growing need for parallel proceedings for European recognition of UK and US restructurings
• AI and Corporate Insolvency Law
• Game of Loans: Liability management exercises (LMEs)
• Stigma of Insolvency
• Harmonisation of the EU restructuring and insolvency landscape

Come to Vienna, make the debates and discussions lively!

Continuing Professional Education 
A number of CPE points and academic hours of professional education will be awarded for attendance at the conference by the local professional associations. Please contact Harriet Taylor after the conference for a certificate of attendance, which you can forward to the relevant organisation as evidence.  

If you have any queries or would like further information, please contact Harriet Taylor

Refunds will not be given for any cancellation received after Friday 18 July although it will be permissible for registrations to be transferred within organisations.

This year our Congress will be held at Hilton Vienna Park, Am Stadtpark 1, 1030, Wien, Austria. We have a limited number of bedrooms reserved at the corporate rate of €309 per night, please click here to reserve a bedroom. 

We also have a limited number of bedrooms reserved at the corporate rate of €199 per night at The Hoxton Vienna, a 10 minute walk away from the Congress Hotel. Please click here to reserve a bedroom. 

Moments from Vienna's vibrant city centre, both hotels are located next to the beautiful Stadtpark, just 16 minutes from the airport by train. You can find Hilton's Corporate Responsibility Strategy here. Furthermore, the INSOL Europe Caring for the Environment statement can be found here. 

Make the most of your visit to Vienna and book a local tour, we recommend using GetYourGuide

The preliminary draft Technical Programme is available here (subject to change).

The full programme including social events and additional meetings is shown below.

Distance from Vienna International Airport: 18km

Enjoy a comfortable arrival and departure to and from Vienna Airport with City Airport Train. With rides every 30 minutes, this is the easiest and fastest choice. The train costs €14.90 each way and takes 16 minutes non-stop between the airport and the hotel. Click here to book your train. 

Alternatively, there is a dedicated airport taxi rank immediately outside the arrivals hall, estimated cost of €60.00 each way. 

Sustainable Travel
If you are flying to Austria, we have published some information about how to carbon-offset your flights on our website here.

Travel & Health Insurance 
It is the attendee's responsibility to be adequately insured in case of claims pertaining to travel/accidents for the duration of their visit.  

2025 Vienna Congress Technical Committee

• Matthias Prior, Abel Rechtsanwälte, Austria (Council member & Country Coordinator)
• Christel Dumont, Dentons, Luxembourg (Council member & Country Coordinator)
• Bart Heynickx, ALTIUS, Belgium (Anti-Fraud Forum Co-Chair)
• Nuno Libano Monteiro, PLMJ, Portugal
• Elina Pesonen, Castren & Snellman Attorneys, Finland
• Fedra Valencia, Cuatrecasas, Spain (Council member)
• Alice van der Schee, Van Benthem & Keulen, The Netherlands (President)