Annual Congress 1-4 OCTOBER 2020

TOWARDS A NEW WORLD

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Connect IRL! In these times, where communication channels are FaceBook, Snapchat, Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitter, etc, we sometimes forget how enriching it is to meet one another in person, talk about work, business opportunities, challenges, war stories, Piya Mukherjee digress on to likes and dislikes, family, food, holidays, pets etc. Unplugged communication! President INSOL Europe It is with great pleasure that I invite you to our next and 39th Annual Congress from 1 to 4 October 2020 in Sorrento () on the breathtaking Amalfi coast and the perfect venue for unplugged communication. Expect lemon groves, implausibly clear waters, a spectacular Further view of the Gulf of and marvellous sunsets. It was Information here, though, that Ulysses resisted the tempting chants of the Sirens, tied to the mast of his ship and with his ears Details on plugged with wax! how to obtain Expect a tempting technical programme. An enriching our discounted plethora of debates and discussions under the visionary hotel corporate overall theme “ Towards a New World ”. In this new world, rates will be Brexit would have happened (…or would it?), Member advertised in States will be in the process of transposing the Directive on our registration Pre-Insolvency Restructuring and the new groundbreaking brochure (due reform of Italian insolvency law would have come into force. to be mailed in These and many more visions will be the topics of the March 2020). sessions in the technical programme put together expertly by our hardworking Congress Technical Committee with Details will also co-chairs Giorgio Corno (Studio Corno Avvocati) and be available on Simeon Gilchrist (Edwin Coe) at the helm. our website: www.insol- We are very pleased and thankful for all the suggestions europe.org for topics received from the membership – the Congress Technical Committee has been spoilt for choice! Further information Come to Sorrento, make the debates and discussions may also be lively, stay unplugged and connect ‘In Real Life’! obtained from: Ci vediamo a Sorrento! Harriet Taylor Event Manager INSOL Europe PO Box 7149 Sponsorship Opportunities Clifton Please contact Hannah Denney: [email protected] Nottingham for information about any of the available opportunities. NG11 6WD United Kingdom Academic Forum Gala Dinner Reception Congress App ¤6,000 SOLD ¤4,000 SOLD ¤5,000 1 AVAILABLE Main Sponsor Gala Dinner Film & Photography Tel: +44 (0) ¤17,500 SOLD ¤10,000 SOLD ¤4,000 AVAILABLE 7771 621930 Congress General Technical Sessions Sponsor ¤9,000 ¤4,000 SOLD Young Members’ Group 2 AVAILABLE Email: harriet@ Promotional Gift Reception ¤4,000 SOLD Welcome Reception insol-europe.org & Dinner ¤7,500 SOLD Sponsor ¤1,500 Anti-Fraud Forum AVAILABLE Friday Delegate Lunch ¤2,000 SOLD ¤4,000 SOLD Coffee Breaks Insolvency Office Saturday Delegate ¤2,000 AVAILABLE & Guest Lunch Exhibition Area Holders Forum ¤4,000 SOLD ¤2,000 AVAILABLE ¤3,000 AVAILABLE Technical Programme 2020

We are delighted to warmly invite Although the UK is expected to have , you to the paradisiacal Sorrento Vide 'o mare de Surriento, exited the EU by the implementation for the Annual Congress of INSOL che tesoro tene nfunno: deadline of the EU Directive on Europe which will be held between chi ha girato tutto 'o munno Restructuring and Insolvency, the UK 1 and 4 October 2020. nun l'ha visto comm'a ccà. […] will undoubtfully remain in the race with the announced reforms on its If Sorrento got its name from Come Back to Sorrento, restructuring and insolvency regime in Surrentum in ancient Rome, some Look at the sea of Sorrento, what a treasure it is! line with the Directive and the need to prefer to believe rather that its name Even who has travelled maintain the attractiveness of its comes from the word Siren, who lured all around the world, cross-border restructuring in the sailors with their enchanting voices to Has never seen a sea like this. […] Brexit era. Our 2020 Congress will shipwreck on the rocky coast of Giambattista de Curtis cover these issues in depth. Sorrento. Maybe that is why people “Come Back to Sorrento” always have been attracted by this Listen to the song here: Our community is thus going towards Italian jewel by the sea lying between https://youtu.be/HbUfpQ9Nmbw a New World of greater restructuring the Gulfs of Naples in the north and and insolvency harmonisation. Salerno in the south and felt the need In this regard, the INSOL Europe to “Come Back to Sorrento” as say the words by Judicial Wing will organise a mock trial devoted to the Giambattista de Curtis of the famous Neapolitan song crucial issue of creditors’ challenges to practitioners in composed by his brother . Sorrento procedures concerning restructuring, insolvency and has indeed been visited by the illustrious Lord Byron, discharge of debt. The mock trial will be the John Keats, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Charles opportunity to simulate two different national judicial Dickens, Alphonse de Lamartine, Richard Wagner, proceedings. Henrik Ibsen and Friedrich Nietzsche, to name a few, We should warn our delegates that some horror is and inspired their work to a great extent… Sorrento has coming their way… Indeed, the INSOL Europe IOH also seen the birth of the poet Torquato Tasso, the Forum will present their “Little Shop of Horrors” since painters Giuseppe Agellio, Giacomo di Castro, Edoardo insolvency practitioners cannot escape the European De Martino, the poet and writer Aniello Califano and the General Data Protection Regulation which is applicable politician and writer Raffaele Lauro who just received to them as of 25 May 2018, creating new duties and the 2019 “Penisola Sorrentina Arturo Esposito” award responsibilities... for his career in narrative writing. What better setting to host our 2020 Congress than Sorrento, which has The voluntary arrangements of an individual or a inspired great minds whose work changed the world. company which is insolvent or in likelihood of insolvency with its creditors are taking on a bigger role The main theme of our 2020 Congress will be and a panel will examine them on a comparative “Towards a New World”. perspective as voluntary arrangements raise practical, Now that the Directive on Restructuring and Insolvency commercial and moral issues. was adopted on 20 June 2019 and entered into force The 2020 Sorrento Congress will also cover topical on 16 July 2019, the transposition race has started: EU matters related to the Recast European Insolvency Member States are required to implement the Directive Regulation now that all its provisions are in force. by 17 July 2021 in their national legislation at the latest (with an extension up to 17 July 2022 if they encounter As our New World is a digital world, the insolvency practice will be challenged with the question of particular difficulties in transposing the Directive). Our protecting and recovering digital assets. The INSOL 2020 Congress will be the opportunity for the INSOL Europe Insolvency Tech & Digital Assets Group will Europe Directive Project Group to present the present an update on the treatment and valuation of Implementation Guide on the Restructuring Directive digital assets as well as the latest cases related to the which might serve as a reference tool to assist the insolvency of cryptocurrency exchanges/ICOs/miners. national legislators but also to assess the adequacy of national legislative proposals and legislations that As a New World cannot be conceived without the need already implemented the Directive. for environmental protection and sustainable development, our 2020 Congress will unavoidably The EU Directive on Restructuring and Insolvency, once question the environmental liabilities of insolvency implemented, will have important practical practitioners which will undoubtedly increase. In consequences and will be discussed, amongst others, particular, we must question how to deal with during our breakout sections. contaminated assets ( de lege late and de lege ferenda ). The Directive will represent a change for EU Member We trust that you will enthusiastically join us to discuss States towards debtor-in-possession-type insolvency the rich insights of our panel sessions and speakers in regimes like chapter 11 in the US and schemes of Sorrento where you will have the opportunity to arrangement in the UK. It is indispensable that lessons network and share unforgettable moments with friends be learned from the experience of these common law old and new. jurisdictions which will be presented during our 2020 Congress. We look forward to seeing you all in Sorrento in October 2020 for what will be a truly memorable conference! The practical consequences of the liability of directors in a likelihood of insolvency will also be explored as Co-chairs of the 2020 Sorrento well as the new role of the practitioner on the field of Congress Technical Committee restructuring which appears to be not only a supervisor Giorgio Corno, Studio Corno Avvocati, Italy but also a mediator. Simeon Gilchrist, Edwin Coe, UK INSOL Europe General Sponsors

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