08:15 – 09:00

Registration

09:00 – 09:05

Opening Address by Thammasat University

Speaker: Assistant Professor Amnart Tangkiriphimarn, Thammasat University

09:05 – 09:10

Opening Address by INSOL International (Asia Hub)

Speaker: Clare Wee, INSOL International (Asia Hub)

09:10 – 09:40

Keynote Address - Thailand’s Insolvency Reform Experience and the Future of Cross-Border and Digital-Age Restructuring 

Speaker: Prof Wisit Wisitsora-at, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA)

Q&A

Speaker: Sumant Batra, President, Insolvency Law Academy

10:00 – 10:30

Tea break

10:30 – 11:15

Academic Panel 1: Insolvency and Technology: Promises, Perils and Potential?

Speakers:

Professor Andrew Godwin, University of Melbourne  
‘Insolvency Law and Digital Assets – The Scorecard from Australia’

Professor Rebecca Parry, Nottingham Trent University 
‘Artificial Intelligence, its Impact on International Practices and Future Potential’

Dr Supawich Sirikanchana, Thammasat University 
‘Designing Insolvency Disclosure Obligations in Tech-Driven Capital Markets: Lessons from Crypto-Asset Exchange Insolvencies for the Thai Legal Landscape’

Q&A

Moderator: Danny Quah, Director, CHP Law

11:45 – 12:45

Lunch

12:45 – 13:30

Practitioners' Panel: At the intersection of Insolvency and Arbitration

Speakers:

Samuel Leong, Singapore International Arbitration Centre 
‘The SIAC RIA Protocol: Bridging the Gap’

Yada Yuwataepakorn, Baker McKenzie Thailand 
‘Arbitration and Insolvency: Mapping the Intersections Under Thai Law’

The Honourable Simon Gardiner 
‘Australia’s Experience and Recent Developments’

Q&A

Moderator: Professor Andrew Godwin, University of Melbourne 

14:00 – 15:00

Academic Panel 2: Insolvency and Extant Questions of Legal Doctrine

Speakers:

Professor Jason Harris, University of Sydney 
‘Corporate Group Insolvency in Asia: Consolidation and Beyond’

Associate Professor Irna Nurhayati, Universitas Gadjah Mada 
‘Unravelling the Issue at the Crossroads of Bankruptcy Proceedings and Arbitration in Indonesia: Should Winding-Up Trump Arbitration Agreement?’

Emma Shuen Lee, National University of Singapore  
‘Abolishing the Statutory Trust in Liquidation’

Q&A

Moderator: Judge Kanok Jullamon, Supreme Court of Thailand  

15:30 – 16:00

Tea break

16:00 – 17:15

Academic Panel 3: Perspectives from East Asia

Presentations:

Professor Choi Joon-kyu, Seoul National University 
‘Third-Party Release in the Republic of Korea from a Civil Law Perspective: Normatively Justified as a Rational Strategy Under Certainty?’

Professor Junko Sugimoto, Nihon University 
‘Overview of Early Business Recovery Act in Japan’

Dr Alex Huang, University of Hong Kong 
‘A Tale of Two Equities’

Toh Ding Jun, National University of Singapore  
‘What is Being Transplanted? An Examination of China’s Reception of Pre-Packaged Bankruptcy’

Q&A

Moderator: Professor Rebecca Parry, Nottingham Trent University   

17:45

Conference Dinner

08:15 – 09:00

Registration

09:00 – 09:30

Opening Lecture: Tracing and Recovering Assets in Insolvency of Smaller Enterprises

Speaker: Sumant Batra, President, Insolvency Law Academy

Q&A

Moderator: Judge Kanok Jullamon, Supreme Court of Thailand  

10:00 – 10:30

Academic Panel 4: Insolvency and Society

Speakers:

Migmar Lham, Matrix Gelephu 
‘Corporate Insolvency in Bhutan: Legal Framework Versus Cultural Reality in the Kingdom’

Akanksha Tripathy, BML Munjal University 
‘Beyond Creditors – Social and Environmental Externalities in Corporate Insolvency in Developing Economies’

Q&A

Moderator: Debaranjan Goswami, University of Melbourne  

11:00 – 12:00

Academic Panel 5: Asset Tracing and Recovery

Speakers:

Debaranjan Goswami, University of Melbourne 
‘Transaction Avoidance, Wrongful & Fraudulent Trading Provisions Under Indian Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016: Pitfalls and the Way Forward’

Aditya Jain and Dhanya Jha, Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law 
‘Critiquing the Balance-Sheet Insolvency Test: Institutional Lessons from India’

Kajal Bhatia, WongPartnership LLP 
Bridging the Tracing Lag: Financing Asset Recovery and Digital Dissipation Under the UNCITRAL Toolkit’

12:00 – 12:30

Q&A

Moderator: Yam Wern-Jhien, Director, Setia Law

12:30 – 12:35

Closing Remarks by the National University of Singapore

Speaker: Toh Ding Jun, National University of Singapore

12:35 – 12:40

Closing Remarks by Thammasat University

Speaker: Assistant Professor Lasse Schuldt, Thammasat University

12:40

Lunch