UNCITRAL Colloquium on possible updates to the Guide to Enactment and Interpretation of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency

Thursday, 11 December 2025 - 9:30am to Friday, 12 December 2025 - 5:00pm

Venue: Board Room C of the Vienna International Centre, Vienna 
 

At its fifty-eighth session, in 2025, the Commission endorsed the proposal to hold a colloquium to discuss possible updates to the Guide to Enactment and Interpretation of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency  (A/80/17, paras. 250, 256 and 347). 
 
The colloquium was held on 11–12 December 2025 at the Vienna International Centre, following the sixty-seventh session of Working Group V. A report of the colloquium will be submitted to the Commission for consideration at its fifty-ninth session.
 

Programme

Speaker bios 

Reference materials:

•    A/CN.9/WG.V/WP.199 - Proposal by the delegation of Australia for preparation of an updated Guide to Enactment and Interpretation of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency

•    A/CN.9/1219 - Possible future work in the area of insolvency law 

•    A/80/17 - Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its fifty-eighth session, paras. 247-256

Presentations panel 2 
Irit Mevorach
Haroon Ahmed
Sheila Neder Cerezetti