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Global Insolvency Practice Course 2023/24

INSOL International is delighted to confirm that applications for the 2023/24 in-person Global Insolvency Practice Course will open on 14 July 2023 and will remain open until 30 September 2023 (or until the course is full and we close applications). The course will commence on 1 October 2023 and Module A will take place in London from 29 November to 1 December 2023. A downloadable brochure for the 2023/24 course is available below (click on the blue button).

Please contact Heather Callow at [email protected] should you require further information.

Download 2023/24 Course Brochure

The class for 2023/24 is now full and no further applications can be taken. Please contact Heather Callow with any further enquiries.

About the Global Insolvency Practice Course

The Global Insolvency Practice Course is a result of the large interest that the INSOL membership demonstrated for an advanced educational qualification focusing on international insolvency. The qualification received will bestow a Fellowship from INSOL International.

Modern business enterprises operate in multiple jurisdictions. The financial distress of a global business is no longer limited to a single jurisdiction and can no longer be addressed by a single jurisdiction’s insolvency system.

The fast growing number of cross-border insolvency cases and the adoption in many jurisdictions of rescue regimes and cross-border insolvency procedures present new challenges to the turnaround and insolvency profession. Practitioners and turnaround experts need to have extensive knowledge of the transnational and international aspects of the legal and financial problems facing a business in distress. The Global Insolvency Practice Course provides this knowledge.

The style of the fellowship programme is intensive, carried out over three short periods, so those taking the course must dedicate the time and energy needed to get the most out of the opportunity. Many sessions are interactive and each requires the full attention of the participants.

Professor Ronald W Harmer Bursary

INSOL International offers a bursary in each class to enable a judge or a regulator from an emerging country to participate on the course. The bursary has been named the Professor Ronald W Harmer Bursary to mark the enormous contribution made by Ron to academic learning in international and comparative insolvency law, most recently as a Professor at University College London, where he worked with Professor Ian Fletcher. For further details please contact [email protected]

The Stephen Adamson Award

In association with Redress Solutions PLC

We are delighted to announce the creation of this new award which will be presented to the GIPC First in Class.

The award will be made annually to the first in class of the Global Insolvency Practice Course (GIPC), in memory of Stephen Adamson, kindly sponsored by Redress Solutions where Stephen was a Chairman from 2007. First and foremost, Redress is honouring Stephen's memory in a manner that reflects his connection with INSOL.

Redress Solutions PLC is proud to honour the memory of Stephen through the GIPC where the future leaders of the profession he so loved are making their way in the turnaround and insolvency profession. Award Details.

Testimonials

ROB VAN DEN SIGTENHORST, TOON, INSOL FELLOW, CLASS OF 2018 / 2019:

I participated in the GIPC in 2018-2019. In my view, it’s an outstanding programme. While I already had significant experience in cross-border, complex restructurings before the course, I still learned a lot and got a different, deeper perspective on the things I already knew. Maybe even more important though are the amazing classmates – excellent restructuring professionals from all over the world – who you get to know and build such strong, lasting ties with.

LAURA HALL, ALLEN & OVERY, INSOL FELLOW, CLASS OF 2017 / 2018:

INSOL’s GIPC broadened my knowledge of global insolvency regimes and experience negotiating with professionals of diverse backgrounds. The opportunity for professional and personal connections is the most rewarding aspect of the program.

NICOLETA MIRELA NASTASIE, BUCHAREST TRIBUNAL, INSOL FELLOW, CLASS OF 2017 /2018:

I was given the opportunity to be part of the INSOL International Global Insolvency Practice Course 2017-2018, through Ronald W. Harmer Bursary.

The Course is amazing because of the intensity of learning activities, complexity of issues analyzed and information provided, the extraordinary performances of trainers and speakers, but there a professional can find something more important: an environment encouraging people to become friends beyond possible boundaries between professions, different backgrounds and traditions.

Communications through informal mechanisms provided by the Global Insolvency Practice Course, in the attempt to develop a community of professionals connected around the world into the idea of being "INSOL Fellow", along with the principles and the proposals promoted by INSOL International through Strategic review of INSOL International - Taskforce 2021, they are ones of the most important programs and projects in the field of international insolvency.

As a judge dealing with insolvency cases and passionate about the domain, this experience gives me the courage to increase my effort not just for developing my own skills and enlarging my personal knowledge but also for trying to bring professionals from Romania and (why not) from South-East Europe closer to international insolvency community.

ORLA McCOY, CLAYTON UTZ, INSOL FELLOW, CLASS OF 2016 / 2017:

I wholeheartedly recommend the INSOL International Global Insolvency Practice Course to anyone who is interested in genuinely deepening their knowledge and experience of cross-border insolvency and, in particular, to understand better the opportunities, challenges and solutions offered by different regimes in other jurisdictions. The course provides an unparalleled opportunity (and privilege) to work with and learn from exceptional practitioners from multiple jurisdictions and, in doing so, to develop fantastic relationships both within your cohort and amongst the Fellows network more broadly. The content and structure of the course also forces you to develop a much more profound understanding of the insolvency regimes of other (key) jurisdictions than you would have the opportunity to develop on any conventional cross-border insolvency matter. My cohort were phenomenal and I thoroughly enjoyed the course.