Arbitration & Insolvency | Perspectives form Brazil and Germany
Channel: Bucerius Law School – Lecture digital
Date: 2023-06-19

ARBITRATION & INSOLVENCY

In March 2022, the Center for International Dispute Resolution at Bucerius Law School, the University of Hamburg and the University of São Paulo joined forces and organized an international conference on arbitration and insolvency. Arbitration proceedings encounter different obstacles when one of the parties is insolvent. Effectiveness and scope of the arbitration agreement are in question, arbitration proceedings have to be coordinated with the insolvency proceedings, and conflict of laws issues are given particular weight. This applies equally to national and international arbitration. Speakers from both the insolvency law and arbitration law worlds addressed the issues associated with this topic:

SESSION I:

The arbitrability of insolvency related claims and other restrictions: general approach

Germany and selected European countries
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Bork, University of Hamburg

Brazil and selected other jurisdictions
Prof. Dr. Francisco Satiro, University of São Paulo

The scope of the arbitration clause: ratio personae
Dr. Manuel Penades, King's College London

Q&A session moderated by Dr. Torsten Lörcher, CMS Germany

SESSION II:

Specific rights of the insolvency practitioner (election and termination rights)
Dr. Vesna Lazić, Associate Professor Utrecht University; Senior Researcher T.M.C. Asser Instituut 

Arbitration and avoidance claims
Ph.D. Candidate Bárbara Gadig, LL.M., University of São Paulo / University of Lisbon

Insolvency and arbitration: a few procedural questions
Prof. Dr. Maria de Lurdes Pereira, University of Lisbon

Q&A session moderated by Prof. Dr. Francisco Satiro, University of São Paulo.

SESSION III:

Post-petition arbitration agreements
Prof. Dr. Christoph Thole, University of Cologne

Arbitration, insolvency and the work of UNCITRAL
Prof. José Angelo Estrella-Faria | UNCITRAL Secretariat, Vienna 

International cases: conflict of laws questions
Prof. Dr. Stefan Kröll, LL.M., Bucerius Law School



00:00:00 Kröll: welcome remarks
00:02:57 Lörcher: introduction
00:07:28 Bork: arbitrability Germany
00:28:55 Satiro: arbitrability Brazil
00:54:22 Q+A
01:17:48 Break
01:39:30 Penades: arbitration clause
02:07:48 Q+A
02:25:01 Lazić: insolvency practitioner
02:44:00 Gadig: avoidance claims
03:03:25 Pereira: procedural questions
03:29:35 Q&A
03:42:01 Thole: Post-petition arbitration agreements
04:14:58 Q&A
04:25:01 Mubarak:
04:29:35 Estrella-Faria: work of UNCITRAL
04:59:07 Kröll: conflict of laws
05:34:33 Q&A
05:53:37 Bork: closing remarks