IBBI-IGIDR Insolvency and bankruptcy reforms conference


3rd - 4th August, 2018
Magnolia, India Habitat Center, Delhi


Friday, 3rd August

08:30 - 09:00 Registration, Coffee and Tea
09:00 - 10:15 Inaugural session
Welcome Address: Susan Thomas, IGIDR
Keynote Address: M. S. Sahoo, Chairperson IBBI
Guest of Honor: Injeti Srinivas, Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs
Chief Guest: P. P. Chaudhary, Hon'ble Minister of State for Law and Justice and Corporate Affairs
Vote of Thanks: Ritesh Kavdia, IBBI
10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30 Session I: How is IBC working?
Session Chair: Gyaneshwar Singh, Ministry of Corporate Affairs

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) - 12 cases under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) [presentation]
Joshua Felman, J. H. Consultants, Varun Marwah and Anjali Sharma, Finance Research Group, IGIDR
Discussant: Chinmaya Goyal, NITI Aayog

Value destruction and wealth transfer under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code [paper] [presentation]
Pratik Datta, University of Oxford
Discussant: Ajay Shah, NIPFP [presentation]
11:30 - 13:00 Panel 1: Challenges in arriving at a resolution plan
Context setting: Rajnish Kumar, State Bank of India
Sapan Gupta, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
Anuj Jain, BSRR & Co.
Nikhil Srivastava, KKR
Suharsh Sinha, AZB & Partners
Shashank Saksena, Department of Ecomonic Affairs
Mamta Suri, IBBI
Moderator: Susan Thomas, IGIDR
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Session II: Incentive effects of the insolvency law
Session Chair: Bhargavi Zaveri, Finance Research Group, IGIDR

Creditor rights and bank losses: A cross-country comparison [paper] [presentation]
Amanda Rae Heitz and Ganapathi Narayanamoorthy, A.B. Freeman School of Business
Discussant: Joshua Felman, J. H. Consultants [presentation]

Consumers as creditors in corporate bankruptcy [presentation]
Gausia Shaikh and Anjali Sharma, Finance Research Group, IGIDR
Discussant: Aparna Ravi, Samvad Partners [presentation]
15:00 - 15:15 Break
15:15 - 17:00 Panel 2: Challenges post IRP
Context setting: Shuva Mandal, Tata Sons
Dhananjay Kumar, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Nikhil Shah, Alvarez and Marsal
Nilang Desai, AZB & Partners
Harish Chander, Edelweiss
Dhinal Shah, Ernst & Young
Moderator: Ajay Shah, NIPFP
19:00 onwards Dinner
Marigold, India Habitat Centre

Saturday, 4th August

09:00 - 09:30 Registration, Coffee and Tea
09:30 - 10:15 Special Session
Susan Thomas, IGIDR [presentation]
Subhash Chandra Garg, Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs
Sumant Batra, Kesar Dass B. & Associates [presentation]
Moderator: Anjali Sharma, Finance Research Group, IGIDR
10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30 Session III: Building institutional capacity for the IBC
Session Chair: Anjali Sharma, Finance Research Group, IGIDR

Regulating Insolvency Professionals under the IBC Tracing pathways to regulation based on a study of professional development [paper] [presentation]
Anirudh Burman, NIPFP and Rajeswari Sengupta, IGIDR
Discussant: Sumant Batra, Kesar Dass B. & Associates
11:30 - 13:00 Conversations on building institutional capacity in adjudication
Context setting: Bhargavi Zaveri, Finance Research Group, IGIDR [presentation]
Hon'ble Justice Kannan Ramesh, Supreme Court of Singapore
Hon'ble Justice M. M. Kumar, NCLT
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Session IV: Ecosystem for IBC reform
Session Chair: Joshua Felman, J. H. Consultants

Enterprise value of firms in insolvency [paper] [presentation]
Deepak Panda and Sagar Goyal, Duff & Phelps India Private Limited
Discussant: Venkatesh Panchapagesan, IIM Bangalore [presentation]

Catch and release: data in the IBC ecosystem [presentation]
Adam Feibelman, Tulane University and Renuka Sane, NIPFP
Discussant: Ritesh Kavdia, IBBI
15:00 - 15:15 Break
15:15 - 16:30 Panel 3: A market for stressed assets
Context setting: Ravi Chachra, Eight Capital Management, LLC
Sudarshan Sen, RBI
Joshua Felman, J. H. Consultants
P. R. Ramesh, Deloitte India
Navrang Saini, IBBI
Anurag Das, The Blackstone Group
Venkattu Srinivasan, Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.
Shailendra Ajmera, Ernst & Young
Moderator: Harsh Pais, Trilegal
16:30 - 17:30 A last word: The reform agenda
Montek Singh Ahluwalia
Somasekhar Sundaresan, Advocate
A. S. Chandiok, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India
Moderator: M. S. Sahoo, Chairperson, IBBI

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