Insolvency Event - the 4th Insolvency Research Conference - IS and ICAEW to host jointly

The 4th Insolvency Research Conference has been announced. The event will be hosted jointly by the Insolvency Service (IS) and the ICAEW. It will be held on Tuesday 10 November 2009 at The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, Chartered Accountants’ Hall, Moorgate Place, London EC2P 2BJ. The line up of speakers looks very interesting. Here is the agenda for the day:

09:00 – 09:45	Registration & coffee
09:45	Welcome addresses
10:00	The good, the bad, and the ugly: A survival guide to M&A in distressed times Maria Carapeto,  Mergers and Acquisitions Research Centre, Cass Business School, City University, London
10:30	Pre-packs and Statement of Insolvency Practice 16 Insolvency Practitioner Policy Section, Insolvency Service Dr Sandra Frisby, Baker & McKenzie Associate Professor in Company and Commercial Law, University of Nottingham
11:00	Coffee
11:30	Making creditor protection effective Alan Katz and Michael Mumford, International Centre for Research in Accounting, Lancaster University
12:00	An independent review of the fee-charging debt management industry Sharon Collard, Personal Finance Research Centre, University of Bristol
12:30	Lunch
13:45	Debt Relief Orders John McGurk, Official Receiver, Plymouth
14:15	COMI issues in personal insolvency Chief Registrar Stephen Baister
14:45	Afternoon tea break
15:15	Discharge in bankruptcy: An examination of personal insolvency relief John Tribe, KPMG Lecturer in Restructuring, Kingston University
15:45	Personal over-indebtedness régime design :- A basis for a predictive model and empirical evidence from a small geography Michael Green, Research Fellow, University of Wales

Picture Credit: Insolvency Service.