Alastair Beveridge
President of
INSOL Europe

A series of short films from the Annual Congress in Athens is now published on our website. 

We thank all our sponsors, speakers and delegates who took part in the filming, which captures some of the highlights of the Congress and gives a real flavour of the event.

Thank you to our Film & Photography sponsor, PROF. DR. PANNEN RECHTSANWÄLTE.

Watch the films here on Technical Sessions, 
Sponsorship and Networking.

Last year, the Council of INSOL Europe decided to initiate the formulation of our organisation's strategy for the years to come. To this effect, the Strategic Task Force 2025 was established, which comprises eight members of INSOL Europe, mirroring its extensive professional and geographic diversity, led by Messrs Dr. Steffen Koch and Wolf Waschkuhn.

As for any strategy, the starting point is of key importance. The Strategic Task Force developed a questionnaire to elicit the many opinions of the current membership, your motivation and aspirations and how INSOL Europe should be seen in and seen to interact with the outside world.

Download the Summary here

The questionnaire was completed in 2017. The results have been analysed in detail and used in the development of the strategy. A summary of the areas of strategic focus is presented on our website and can be downloaded as a PowerPoint presentation here. For further information contact the Co-Chairs of the Strategic Task Force 2025, Dr. Steffen Koch and Wolf Waschkuhn.

Yutong Zhang is the latest winner of the annual Richard Turton Award with his paper on "Blockchain: A Chance for Turnaround Procedure Modernization".

He was presented with his award at the Annual Congress in Athens, which he attended as our guest. Yutong said "I am very grateful for the chance to meet with colleagues and professionals from the industry. I can learn a lot here from experts on the cutting edge of insolvency law and extend my network of contacts." 

Read Richard Yutong's
award-winning paper here.

Wisit our website for further information about the award.

INSOL Europe was invited to attend the 17th edition of the Private Equity Exchange & Awards in Paris on 21 November 2018. Our Deputy President Piya Mukherjee spoke on a panel dealing with the restructuring industry, to give her perspectives from Europe.

This year the event was dedicated to 'Entrepreneurship, Venture and Growth Capital', with the conference including 24 roundtables on topics such as Private Equity best strategies: Leader’s secrets; Shopping: Seizing opportunities in a changing world; France: A renewed European pillar; Managing restructuring through skills and teams, Stepping up through digitalization, and LBO limit: Is the sky the limit… In addition to the conferences, one-to-one meetings were organised for networking before the gala dinner.

As part of the new insolvency framework enacted in Cyprus in May 2015 following the near collapse of the economy, the concept of Examinership was incorporated into the Cyprus Companies Law Cap 113, a procedure largely based on Irish legislation.
Examinership is a debt restructuring and corporate rescue mechanism for companies which are insolvent or likely to become insolvent but have reasonable prospects of success as a going concern. 

Examinership was intended to bridge the gap for debtor companies which have a genuine opportunity to survive, to provide them with much needed “breathing space” and effectively give them a second chance not previously available to them. Andri Antoniou, director at CRI Group, a firm specialising in all aspects of corporate recovery reconstruction and renewal in Cyprus, enquires how effectively this is working in practice. Read the full Inside Story and other articles here.

If you would like the opportunity to have your Inside Story published in a future edition, please email Communicatons Manager, Paul Newson for details.