08:30 – 09:00

Registration and refreshments

09:00 – 09:05

Chairs’ welcome

A welcome to delegates from your conference chairs: Sebastiaan van den Berg (RESOR), Morgan Bowen (Mills & Reeve) and Christos Christoforou (CMS)

09:05 – 09:15

Presidents’ welcome

A joint welcome from Nicky Fisher, President of R3, and Barry Cahir, President of INSOL Europe

09:15 – 10:00

International case-law update

An update on significant recent cross-border insolvency cases. This session will feature leading South Square practitioners.

10:00 – 10:45

Crypto – the latest developments from the Crypto sector

This panel session will be chaired by Henry Page (Mercer & Hole) and will focus on the latest developments in the Crypto sector as they affect insolvency professionals featuring renowned Crypto experts Charles Kerrigan (CMS), Julia Marshall (Alvarez & Marsal) and Allister Manson (Opus)

10:45 – 10:50

Understanding the hidden cost of currency conversion and the impact it could have on insolvency

This is a short spot on an important but often neglected issue from the event sponsor Lumon.

10:50 – 11:20

Coffee Break

11:20 – 12:10

The interview segment – lessons learned from the Three Arrows Capital liquidation

John Willcock, editor of Global Turnaround, will interview Christopher Farmer of Teneo on his experience at the coalface on the Three Arrows Capital liquidation.

12:10 – 13:10

Networking Lunch

13:10 – 14:00

Do you recognise me? UK-EU cross-border insolvency in the Brexit aftermath

This panel session will be led by Chris Laughton (Mercer & Hole) and will feature practitioners from different types of mainland jurisdictions including a country that has a form of exequatur procedure (Italy) and from a country that has adopted the UNCITRAL Model law (Greece)

14:00 – 14:50

The English Restructuring Plan, the German StaRUG and the Dutch WHOA – a practical comparison

This panel session will compare expert practitioners’ experiences of the new English, German and Dutch restructuring procedures.

14:50 – 15:00

Coffee Break

15:00 – 15:50

The proposed EU directive on the harmonisation of insolvency law

This is a panel session in which our expert panellists – including Rita Gismondi (Gianni & Origoni) and Niels Pannevis (RESOR) among others – will consider the merits (and demerits) of the new proposed EU harmonisation directive

15:50 – 16:00

Chairs’ close

16:00 – 17:00

Networking drinks reception