I was pleased to have presented my topic on the intersection between competition policy and insolvency and rescue law before a distinguished international audience at the INSOL Academic Colloquium in Barcelona on 22 May 2025.
The topic involves a tension between competition principles promoting efficient and innovative businesses and insolvency rescue laws offering remedial support to those businesses’ less than efficient and innovative competitors. 
This tension has prompted government and other interest in Australia, including in relation to the role of the Australian Taxation Office.
My thinking was much assisted by deeper consideration in the EU and the UK.
I am grateful for the incisive questioning during my presentation and in further discussions at the Colloquium including in particular with Christoph Paulus (GDR), 
Alfonso Nocilla (CAN), Sarah Paterson 
and Rebecca Parry (UK),
Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez (SG) and our keynote speaker Ed Morrison (US). 
And of course there was the support and guidance from my Australian colleagues and their presentations – Jason Harris (corporate groups), Sulette Lombard (environmental claims), 
Elizabeth Streten (insolvency practitioners), Amanda Bull (small business restructuring – Part 5.3B), and, as counsel, Jim Johnson. 
My Sydney Law School colleague Professor Yane Svetiev also gave me assistance on competition policy.
Further research and an article or two should be forthcoming.
Well beyond my topic, thank you to INSOL for an excellent range of other issues and quality speakers. 
Michael Murray, University of Sydney Law School, Australia
Murrays Legal – Reporting on insolvency law and related fields
