Programme

9h00 – Welcome

9h30 – Opening Session
Catarina Frade – Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra and researcher at the Centre for Social Studies 
Alfredo Ávila de la Torre – Full Professor of Commercial Law at Universidad de Salamanca

9h45 – Panel 1 – Out-of-court restructuring plan
Moderator: Alfredo Ávila de la Torre – Full Professor of Commercial Law at Universidad de Salamanca
Catarina Serra – Professor at EDUM & Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice 
Alberto Emparanza – Full Professor of Commercial Law at Universidad del País Vasco

10h45 – Break

11h00 – Panel 2 – The approval of the plan 
Moderator: Rúben Jesus – Juiz de Direito
Fernando Taínhas – Judge
Francisco de Borja Villena Cortes – Magistrate: Audiencia Provincial de Madrid

12h00 – Panel 3 – Effects of the notice of initiation of negotiations
Moderator: Paulo Valério – Lawyer and President of the Portuguese Association of Insolvency and Recovery Law
David Sequeira Diniz – Lawyer
Jose Antonio García-Cruces – Full Professor of Commercial Law at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia and Lawyer

13h00-14h30 – Lunch-break

14h30 – Panel 4 – A formação de categorias de créditos / La formación de clases de créditos
Moderator: Ana Filipa Conceição – Professor at Polytechnic Institute of Leiria and collaborative researcher at the Centre for Social Studiess
José Manuel Gonçalves Machado – Professor at Universidade Lusófona
Aurora Martínez Flórez – Full Professor of Commercial Law at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

15h30 – Panel 5 – The duties of the provisional administrator
Moderator: Marília Castilho – Insolvency administrator
Inácio Peres – Insolvency administrator and Lawyer
Alejandro Alvargonzalez – Insolvency administrator and lawyer

16h30 – Closing Session
Ignácio Moralejo Menéndez – Full Professor of Commercial Law at Universidad de Zaragoza
Ana Filipa Conceição – Professor at Polytechnic Institute of Leiria and researcher at the Centre for Social Studies