Londoners tend to think their city is the centre of the universe, but for three days in early November this fiction became a reality as BTG GN members gathered for our 2012 World meeting.
When we received a request late last week from BTG GN member Zoltan Tenk at Noerr & Partner in Budapest for help in finding a lawyer to advise a Hungarian client about issues in Yemen, even my internationalist eyebrows were raised.
Despite the efforts of yet another Icelandic volcano to ruin the party for a second successive year, over thirty of our network friends from 16 different countries came together in Cyprus at the end of May to renew old friendships and make new ones.
The BTG Global Network Conference has finished for the day. Please see below for photographs.
08.15
Registration and coffee
09.00
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Nick Hood – Chairman, BTG Global Network (United Kingdom)
09.15
Update on Cyprus Insolvency Matters
Marios Kallias – Partner, Kallias & Associates (Cyprus)
09.30
Marine Crisis Management
Liam Morrissey – Partner, BTG Global Risk Partners (United Kingdom)
Simon Fordham – Partner, BTG Global Risk Partners (United Kingdom)
10.00
Changes to the German Insolvency System
Martin Prager – Partner, Pluta (Germany)
10.15
Egypt & MENA
Waleed Hilal – Partner, Hilal & Partners (Vision Consulting Group) (Egypt)
10.30
Nigeria, Restructuring & Insolvency Services
Tunde Ajayi – Partner, Babington Ashaye & Co (Nigeria)
10.45
Networking Coffee Break
11.15
Evolution of Polish Insolvency Law in Era of the Global Financial Crisis
Pawel Kuglarz – Partner, Beiten Burkhardt (Poland)
11.45
Israel, Local Aspects of International Insolvencies
Ofer Shapira – Partner, Shapira & Co (Israel)
12.30
Lunch – Served in Kalypso Restaurant
13.30
Eastern European Real Estate Panel
Peter Walker – Partner, Begbies Traynor Group (United Kingdom)
Laslo Csia – Managing Director, Csabaholding Kft (Hungary)
Zoltán Tenk – Partner, Noerr & Partner (Hungary)
14.00
Malta
Joseph Gauci – Managing Partner, KSI Malta (Malta)
14.15
Hospitality Industry Sector Overview
Andries de Vaal – Partner, Salon Consulting (United Kingdom)
14.45
Indian Restructuring Case Studies
Ambarish Chattergee – Director, Integrated Capital Services (India)
Sandeep Gupta – Senior Advisor, Integrated Capital Services (India)
Rajiv Jaiswal – Consultant. Integrated Capital Services (India)
15.15
Networking Tea Break
15.45
Sovereign Debt Issues
Nick Hood – Chairman, BTG Global Network (United Kingdom)
George Bazinas – Partner, Bazinas Law Firm (Greece)
Alessandro Scarso – Partner, Pluta (Italy)
16.45
Future Developments in the Network and Closing Remarks
Nick Hood – Chairman, BTG Global Network (United Kingdom)
17.00
Conference Ends
The next BTG GN World Meeting has been scheduled for Thursday 26 – Saturday 28 May 2011.
The conference will be taking place at the Amathus Beach Hotel in Limassol, Cyprus and the format will follow the previous conferences;
Thursday 26 – Evening
19.00 – Drinks and Dinner at Amathus Beach Hotel
Friday 27
09.00 – 17.00 – Full day conference. Topics include;
Changes to German Insolvency System
Egypt & MENA
Eastern European Real Estate Panel
Marine Crisis Management
International Tax Issues
Plus speakers from
Cyprus
India
Israel
Malta
and Offshore
Evening entertainment and dinner at a local restaurant
Saturday 28
10.30 – 14.30 – Lunch aboard a luxury yacht and a cruise along Larnaca bay
If you would like to attend, please email Jo.hancock@btg-globalnetwork, for further information.
Singapore was the location for this year’s annual conference of INSOL International, held between the 13th and 15th March 2011 and attracting a record attendance of nearly 600 delegates from all over the world. BTG Global Network was proud to be one of the four Main Sponsors, as was network member, BMC Group and also our Australian associates, PPB Advisory. It must be unique for one professional network to take three of the four main sponsorship positions at such a prestigious event, reflecting our very strong influence on thought leadership within the international insolvency and restructuring profession.
Seyi Akinwunmi of Akinwunmi & Busari, our network member from Nigeria, has brought to our attention an advert placed by Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), who are looking to compile a register of eligible service providers.
AMCON established as a resolution vehicle for the non-performing loans (NPL) in the Nigerian banking system, intends to engage the services of specialist firms with expertise in the following areas;
Property & Asset Valuation
Estate Agency
Accountancy
Asset Management
Business Advisory Services
Debt Recovery
Legal Services
Please see the attachment below for more information or contact Seyi directly.
Date of Publication is Tuesday 15 March 2011
Press release from BTG Global Network Newscentre.
Begbies Traynor Group, the specialist professional services consultancy, today announces that the Begbies Global Network (BGN), its premier global network of professionals working with struggling or declining businesses, has changed its name to the BTG Global Network, bringing it in line with the other BTG branded services within the Group.
One of the key objectives of the Begbies Global Network is to support its members in enhancing their reputations in their domestic markets and in particular to make them the “go to” firm for local professionals whose clients need assistance in foreign markets.
So we were delighted to follow up the highly successful BGN members’ meeting in Buenos Aires with a two day seminar programme run jointly with Naveira, Truffat, Martínez, Anido, Lorente & López the law firm which represents the network in Argentina and where our very good friend, Javier Lorente is a partner.
BGN member, Hamilton, a law firm based in Stockholm has recently merged with Nilsson & Co to form one of the City’s leading law firms, with nearly 60 lawyers. The firm will continue to trade under the Hamilton name.