20 January 2021 - 16:00 to 17:40 (CET) - Online Event - Zoom
Registration opening soon! 
Registration will be free for members. If you are a non-member, please contact our Membership Manager, Hannah Denney.

The technical programme is available here.

We are pleased to announce the following confirmed speakers for this event:

Prof. Antonio Leandro will be speaking on:
“Harmonizing Insolvency Regimes in the Prism of European Investment Law”
Directive (EU) 2019/1023 on restructuring and insolvency has been adopted to harmonize the national frameworks of the Member States so as to make national means facing business crises more efficient throughout the EU territory. One may wonder if the Directive, against the backdrop of the ongoing EU actions for a Capital Markets Union, shifted the paradigm of the virtuous forum-law competitiveness – which means for Member States to be competitive one against another in attracting business and investments from abroad (even from third countries) – into a wider rationale that ends up protecting also general interests of EU investment law.

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.

Prof. Gerard McCormack will be speaking on:
“Restructuring and Stays – Moving Forward in Europe?”
The Covid crisis has highlighted the need for stays/moratoria on creditor actions against financially troubled debtors.  The European Restructuring Directive is of fundamental importance in this regard.  But the stay envisaged by the Directive is debtor specific and perhaps shorter in duration than the more general stay occasioned by the Covid crisis.  Nevertheless, the same balancing of debtor and creditor interests and structuring an appropriate stay comes into play in both scenarios.

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.

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PIFOR, Where Art Thou? What will the new world for Office Holders look like?

Insolvency Office Holders Forum / Turnaround Wing Joint Live Webinar 
Thursday 17 December at 12.00 GMT/13.00 CET for one hour 

We are delighted to invite you to an online webinar devoted to the practitioners in the field of restructuring (PIFOR) created by the EU Directive on Restructuring and Insolvency. The two working groups - Insolvency Office Holders Forum (IOH) and Turnaround Wing (TW) - are combining their efforts for this one-off event.

The webinar will be led by the Co-Chairs of the IOH Forum and Co-Chairs of the Turnaround Wing. Topics to be discussed will be:

• Qualification / eligibility / appointment system of the insolvency practitioners and practitioners in the field of restructuring
• Cooperation between INSOL Europe and the EBRD in the revision of the EBRD IOH Principles
• Attractiveness of the profession in the field of restructuring
• Liability of the practitioners in the field of restructuring

Registration will be free for members. If you're a non-member, please contact our Membership Manager Hannah Denney for details on how to book. 

Add the dates to your calendar and join us!

Thursday 3 December / Thursday 10 December

Registration will be free for members. If you're a non-member, please contact our Membership Manager Hannah Denney for details on how to book.  

> Download the conference brochure here

As the evolving impacts of COVID-19 ripple through our communities, we are all facing unforeseen challenges. With a renewed spotlight on insolvency, gaining fresh insight and real life examples will help us, as insolvency professionals, stay on top of our game, enhance business resiliency, ensure business continuity and most importantly, stay connected.
 
We feel that it is our responsibility to help flatten the Coronavirus curve and keep you safe. While we are still as dedicated as ever to offering amazing content and networking opportunities, your safety comes first. 
 
As such, we have transitioned our in-person Eastern European Countries' Committee Conference into a virtual conference. Watch, listen, and ask questions from the convenience of your home or office, no travel needed. 
 
On 3 and 10 December 2020, we will be holding our first online conference 'Tectonic Changes in Eastern European Insolvency', bringing together fresh insight and exceptional speakers.

Watch a video from Radu Lotrean here explaining the new format!

Add the dates to your calendar and join us!

For further information on sponsorship opportunities, please contact Membership & Sponsorship Manager, Hannah Denney.

Download the conference brochure and full programme here.

> Download the full conference report by Paul Omar and Myriam Mailly here.

Online Sessions: 8, 15, 22 & 29 October
Session Time: 12:25 - 14:05 CET

Registration will be free for members or €100+VAT per weekly session for non-members.
A discount of 25% will be given to non-members booking onto all 4 sessions.

Announcing our first keynote speaker: 
Lars Liebst, former CEO of Tivoli, Denmark
The keynote speaker for the first webinar on 8 October will be Lars Liebst. Lars Liebst was the CEO of Tivoli (the second-most popular seasonal theme park in the world which opened in 1843 in Copenhagen) from January 1996 to August 2020. Lars is also the chair of one of the eight committees set down by the Danish government to advise on the restart of the business sector in Denmark. In this regard, Lars is the chair of the committee concerning tourism and experience economy. Lars' perspective as an experienced CEO of a sector particularly hit hard by the Covid-19 crisis will be very topical and is sure to be extremely interesting! (Photo: Tivoli)

Key Topics of the Conference:

• Directors and shareholders’ liability.
• Implementation of the Directive on Restructuring and Insolvency.
• Saving SMEs during the pandemic.
• The (new) role of the practitioner in the field of restructuring.
• Voluntary arrangements with creditors in the time of COVID-19: Has legislation helped?
• Battle of Schemes: UK vs The Netherlands.
• Lessons learned from the failures of the Fintech company Wirecard Case.
• Judges faced with a COVID-19 World.

Young Members Group: Virtual Wine Tasting

If you’re already a member of INSOL Europe aged 45 or below, we welcome you to join our virtual wine tasting session. Simply select this optional extra on the registration page and we’ll post 6 small bottles of carefully selected wines straight to your door, log into the session and you'll be guided through the tasting process. The perfect way to unwind from the comfort of your home whilst networking online with like-minded professionals.

Further information

More details will be posted here when available. If you have any queries, please contact Event Manager, Harriet Taylor. In the meantime, keep your diary free for these special events!

With thanks to our Sponsors:

Main Sponsor

NetBid - www.netbid.com

Download the NetBID company profile here.

Session Sponsors
AlixPartners - www.alixpartners.com
HORTEN - www.horten.dk
Proskauer - www.proskauer.com
Hoche Avocats - www.hoche-avocats.com
anchor rechtsanwälte - www.anchor.eu
bnt attorneys in CEE - www.bnt.eu
Grant Thornton – www.grantthornton.co.uk
CITR - www.citr.ro
 
Young Members Wine Tasting
Schiebe und Collegen - www.schiebe.de

 

Registration Now Open > Download the conference brochure and full programme here.

Online Sessions: 8, 15, 22 & 29 October
Session Time: 12:25 - 14:05 CET

Registration will be free for members or €100+VAT per weekly session for non-members.
A discount of 25% will be given to non-members booking onto all 4 sessions.

Announcing our first keynote speaker: 
Lars Liebst, former CEO of Tivoli, Denmark
The keynote speaker for the first webinar on 8 October will be Lars Liebst. Lars Liebst was the CEO of Tivoli (the second-most popular seasonal theme park in the world which opened in 1843 in Copenhagen) from January 1996 to August 2020. Lars is also the chair of one of the eight committees set down by the Danish government to advise on the restart of the business sector in Denmark. In this regard, Lars is the chair of the committee concerning tourism and experience economy. Lars' perspective as an experienced CEO of a sector particularly hit hard by the Covid-19 crisis will be very topical and is sure to be extremely interesting! (Photo: Tivoli)

Key Topics of the Conference:

• Directors and shareholders’ liability.
• Implementation of the Directive on Restructuring and Insolvency.
• Saving SMEs during the pandemic.
• The (new) role of the practitioner in the field of restructuring.
• Voluntary arrangements with creditors in the time of COVID-19: Has legislation helped?
• Battle of Schemes: UK vs The Netherlands.
• Lessons learned from the failures of the Fintech company Wirecard Case.
• Judges faced with a COVID-19 World.

Young Members Group: Virtual Wine Tasting

If you’re already a member of INSOL Europe aged 45 or below, we welcome you to join our virtual wine tasting session. Simply select this optional extra on the registration page and we’ll post 6 small bottles of carefully selected wines straight to your door, log into the session and you'll be guided through the tasting process. The perfect way to unwind from the comfort of your home whilst networking online with like-minded professionals.

Further information
More details will be posted here when available. If you have any queries, please contact Event Manager, Harriet Taylor. In the meantime, keep your diary free for these special events!

With thanks to our Sponsors:

Main Sponsor

NetBid - www.netbid.com

Download the NetBID company profile here.

Session Sponsors
AlixPartners - www.alixpartners.com
HORTEN - www.horten.dk
Proskauer - www.proskauer.com
Hoche Avocats - www.hoche-avocats.com
anchor rechtsanwälte - www.anchor.eu
bnt attorneys in CEE - www.bnt.eu
Grant Thornton – www.grantthornton.co.uk
CITR - www.citr.ro
 
Young Members Wine Tasting
Schiebe und Collegen - www.schiebe.de