UNCITRAL Fourth International Colloquium on Secured Transactions
15-17 March 2017, Vienna

Contractual issues

Michel Deschamps, Bénédict Foëx, Richard M. Kohn, Steven O. Weise Christiane Wendehorst:  Contractual guide on secured transactions (Part One): contractual advice to parties -  Security  Agreement - Proposal Letter - Perfection Certificate - Form of Bailee's Letter - Outline

Transactional and regulatory issues

Neil Cohen:  Capacity Building as a Key Determinant of Success in Secured Transactions Reform

Giuliano Castellano: Secured Transactions Law and Capital Requirements Enhancing Access to Credit and Financial Stability
Kumiko Koens: To Modernize or Not to Modernize - Secured Transactions Law in Japan
Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell: Transactional advice and regulatory considerations

Finance to microbusinesses

Maria del Pilar Bonilla, Louise Gullifer, Ignacio Tirado Martí:  Finance to Micro-Businesses 

Murat Sultanov: Finance to Micro-Businesses

Warehouse receipt financing

Marek Dubovec: Negotiable Documents under UNCITRAL Instruments; Paper Based and Electronic  -   Electronic Warehouse Receipts, Commodity Exchanges, and E-Platforms

Nick Budd: Issues for Practitioners and Law Reformers - Description of Warehouse Receipt Finance
Panos Varangis
Otto Wächter:  Warehouse Receipts in Austria

IP licensing

Thilo Agthe, Lorin Brennan, Jeff C. Dodd, Andrea Tosato  : Intellectual Property Contracting Proposal

ADR in secured transactions

Georges Affaki

Orkun Akseli:  Mediation in Enforcement Related Disputes
Anton Baier: Arbitrability of Disputes arising under Security Agreements or in Relation to Security Interests  
Maya Boureghda Chebeane: ADR in Secured Transactions: Third Party Rights

The law applicable to proprietary effects of assignments of receivables

Catherine Walsh:  The law applicable to the proprietary effects of assignments of receivables: Introduction

Peter Winship:  The law applicable to proprietary effects of assignments of receivables: North America

Yuko Nishitani:  Cross-Border Assignments of Receivables: Conflict of Laws in Secured Transactions

Christian Heinze:   The law applicable to proprietary effects of assignment of receivables and insolvency  

Eva Lein:  BIICL Study Assignment and the Rome I Regulation:Effectiveness of an Assignment of a Claim against Third Parties and Priority of the Assigned Claim 

Maria Vilar-Badia: The law applicable to thirdparty effects of transactions in claims and securities in EU law                                                                 

Technical assistance in secured transactions: coordination and cooperation with other organizations

Ammar Al-Saleh, Marek Dubovec, Charles Mooney,  Jeannette Tramhel, Anna Veneziano, John Wilson:  Technical Assistance in Secured Transactions:  Coordination and  Cooperation  with other Organizations

Challenges in integrating a new secured transactions law into an existing legal system

Sir Roy Goode

Jean-Francois Riffard:  Challenges and role of UNCITRAL? 

Bruce Whittaker:  Australia's Experience of Secured Transactions Law Reform -  The view from Within

Hideki Kanda:  Methodology of Harmonization and Modernization of Legal Rules on Secured Transactions -- Legal, Functional or Otherwise?

Summary of the Colloquium