Past events

Registration for this event will close on Monday 28 February at 12:00 GMT / 13:00 CET

The Academic Forum of INSOL Europe will be hosting its Annual Conference at the Clayton Hotel Burlington Road, 2-3 March 2022, immediately prior to INSOL Europe’s main Annual Congress. The overall theme of the academic conference will be: “The Emerging New Landscape of European Restructuring and Insolvency”.

The full technical programme and registration brochure can be downloaded here.

For further information about the Academic Conference, please contact Line Langkjaer, the Academic Forum's Secretary.

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Academic Forum Sponsor
Edwin Coe – edwincoe.com  

Registration now open!

Calling all Young Members (up to 45 years) of INSOL Europe. 

The event will take place on Thursday 13 January at 18:00 CET and will be free to members on a first-come-first-served basis, limited to the first 100 applicants.

Using the concept of ‘speed dating’, each attendee will have the opportunity to take part in 5 private (one to one) live video conversations with other members. Each conversation lasts approximately 5 minutes before you are automatically moved onto the next conversation.

Guests are encouraged to bring along a glass of their preferred wine/beer/soft drink from their fridge and tune into the session from the comfort of their home or office.

We look forward to seeing you online!

SOLD OUT! 


Young Members Group Christmas Networking Event
Belgian Beer & Chocolate Tasting
Online, Thursday 9 December 18:00 – 19:00 CET
Free to attend - Limited availability!

Following our successful virtual networking events and online tasting sessions, the Young Members Group is back with a new twist - Belgian beer & chocolate!

Now that the evenings are becoming long and dark, it is the perfect time to join us with some mouth-watering sweets and hand-picked beverages. Besides, this time you don’t have to bring your own beverage. 

INSOL Europe and the YMG are the best way to meet colleagues with the same interest and field of work. We want to give interested and prospective young members a chance to see how great it is to be part of INSOL Europe and the YMG, even if the venue is on-line. 

Don’t miss the chance to meet old Young Members before the Christmas season kicks in and join us - we look forward to seeing you all!

This event has limited availability so to register, please email Harriet Taylor at harriet@insol-europe.org to provide your delivery address. The deadline for registration is Thursday 25 November so we can make the necessary arrangements for delivery in time for the event.

See you all again soon,

Clarissa Nitsch & Robert Peldan
Co-Chairs of the INSOL Europe Young Members Group

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Date for your diary: 1 December 2021
"StaRUG: The New German Restructuring Law"

INSOL Europe's Academic Forum is excited to announce an online lecture by Professor Christoph Thole, on the topic of the new German law on restructuring, in particular the so-called "StaRUG", an act on the implementation of the Directive no. 2019/1023, which adds a completely new pre-insolvency proceeding to the German law.

Christoph Thole is a Professor of Law at the University of Cologne and Managing Director of the Institute for European and International Insolvency Law and the Institute for Procedural and Insolvency Law at the University of Cologne. His research focuses on insolvency and restructuring law as well as (international) civil procedure law, corporate law and tort law. He has written numerous publications on both national and international restructuring law such as a recent article on the new German “Stabilisation and Restructuring Framework for Businesses (to be found under https://eirjournal.com/articles).

Other recent works by Professor Thole include a commentary on the European Insolvency Regulation (Münchener Kommentar zur Insolvenzordnung, 4th ed. 2020, art. 3-6, 19-33) or an article on the recognition of confidential preventive restructuring frameworks (forthcoming).

We look forward to seeing you online for this very topical lecture!

Visit our Academic Forum page for more updates when available.

Set your alarm for our next EECC Online Conference:
A Wake-up Call for Sleepy Companies?
16:25 CET, Thursday 25 November 2021 

> Download the latest technical programme here

Many articles and experts forecast a rising tide of insolvencies in Europe given all we have been through in the past year and, it’s more than understandable. We were used to seeing insolvency following somewhat regular patterns, and following 2009, we learned to spot a crisis.

Just imagine having the ability to send a message to yourself from January 2020 – but nothing too specific as to not disturb the axis of time – what would you even say? Buy stock in pharma companies? That would be too obvious and most surely go against time travel regulation.

Where to even begin? More has changed in the last 18 months than in the previous ten years put together. We have a pandemic, with its ever-changing variant, fleeting state aid, whole industries on the brink of collapsing while others flourish unexpectedly and a restructuring Directive being dragged through parliaments for transposition.

Once, we had the luxury of certainty. Given the same data set, we persisted in the belief that everyone would draw the same conclusion and, moreover, that we could see the future, as though reason operated according to an obligatory physics, like the optics of an eye. At the beginning of that year, we were once certain that we could see, in broad strokes, how it was going to play out. Now, uncertainty is all we have, and it freed us; it made room for possibilities and new strategies – for growth, pushing us forward. Now, all we have are plans a, b, c, and so on.

This is the painful beginning of the new restructuring. We invite you to discuss together scenarios and plans on Thursday, 25 November from 16:25 CET for a two-hour EECC session - A wake-up call for sleepy companies? Will there be a growing army of zombie companies? Are we ready? Are the tides changing? What about Poland, Czech Republic and Bulgaria? Have airlines reached a survival at any cost point? 

So join us online from the comfort of your home/office in this journey to embrace uncertainty in these new exciting times!

Further information
Please contact the EECC Co-Chairs Evert Verwey or Niculina Somlea.