10. International Restructuring Symposium

From 09:00 To 17:00

FH Kufstein Tirol

Fri 22 Oct

We have ambitious plans for our 10th company conference on the topics of transformation and turnaround.

HOW DO WE MANAGE IN THE ANTHROPOZENE?

• Lecture Stefan Brunnhuber

We are living in a new era, the Anthropocene. The influence of humans is significant. We are changing everything with our way of life. The way we make policy, how we educate our children, how we feed and move ourselves, but also the way we will operate. The lecture highlighted some basic and general aspects of successful The main focus is on how to deal better with the 'triple crisis' (pandemics, climate change and the loss of biodiversity).

COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE DISRUPTION - STRUCTURAL CHANGES AND  CHALLENGES IN THE COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE MARKET

• Lecture Silke Schröder

In her presentation, Silke Schröder emphasized that the market for commercial real estate is subject to unrelenting investment pressure. In the growing area of tension between political disruption, pandemic effects and social megatrends, strong demand can be assumed even in the era of increasing home office and other social trends. A selection of the factors that are to be regarded as decisively trend-setting in terms of opportunities and risks in this context were defined in the presentation.

SICK OF HEARING THE WORD DISRUPTION? SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT WILL SOON BE GIVEN A NEW NAME: DISRUPTION MANAGEMENT

• Lecture Uwe Brunner

AUTOMOTIVE: THE DILEMMA OF TRADITION VS. TRANSFORMATION

• Lecture Christian Feldmann

Megatrends such as e-mobility, digitalization and a changing mobility structure have prompted the automotive industry to make major structural changes in recent years. The presentation showed which strategic options exist and which transformation strategies are being developed. In this context, strategic cooperations could be an important success factor in the transformation process.

PANEL DISCUSSION - AUSTRIAN RESTRUCTURING ORDINANCE (REO) AND ENGLISH CORPORATE STABILIZATION AND RESTRUCTURING ACT (STARUG)

Since 2021, companies that are not insolvent and have a functioning business model have been able to reach an agreement with their creditors within a legally protected framework in order to restore their viability.

IS IT ALL JUST A DREAM? 

The preventive restructuring framework in German reorganization law: principles and perspectives from a judicial point of view.

• Lecture Benjamin Webel

RESTRUCTURING REGULATIONS, REO IN AUSTRIA

• Lecture Herbert Matzunski

OVERVIEW OF THE FIRST STARUG PROCEDURES IN GERMANY

• Lecture Sylvia Fiebig

CASE STUDY: SUCCESSFUL REDESIGN OF THE ERGONOMIC OFFICE CHAIR IN CORONA TIMES - CROSS-BORDER OVERVIEW OF THE LAW

With the help of a real case study, Magdalena Nitsche, supported by moderator Eva Ringelspacher, discussed the judicial reorganization of a German company during the Corona pandemic. They provided insights into pandemic-related difficulties for companies and the sometimes necessary adaptations of corporate strategy and business orientation for commercial enterprises. In addition, they compared the judicial reorganization options in Germany and Austria and discussed the advantages and disadvantages as well as the prerequisites for success of the respective procedures in practice with the participating guests.

“The idea of TMA NOW is to create an international network of women working in the restructuring industry,” says Eva Ringelspacher.

As always, our unofficial evening event at the Auracher Löchl in Kufstein on the evening before the event was great in 2021 as well.