The IIC Membership Application Program is now open. The deadline to apply is April 15, 20221. The membership application review will be conducted over the spring with candidates informed of the results at the end of June.

Former applicants can roll forward their application on file for two years but are are strongly encouraged to update it and resubmit by the set deadline.

However, if you are a previous applicant and have applied for three years unsuccessfully, a new application including updated sponsors will be required. Board directors can not serve as sponsors.

Applications not received by the set deadline will not be considered for the current membership year.

Membership Application & Guidelines  

Those interested in pursuing membership in the IIC must complete a Membership Application.

We encourage applicants to read and review the Membership Guidelines before applying.

• Membership Guidelines
• Membership Application (fillable PDF)
  

The IIC is a professional, educational and honorary association of commercial insolvency and restructuring practitioners, persons regularly engaged as chief restructuring officers or advisors, senior representatives of financial institutions, regulatory bodies and investor or depositor compensation corporations, members of the academic community and others with interests and substantial experience in the fields of insolvency and restructuring. Members are dedicated to the improvement of the insolvency process and the enhancement of the professional quality of and public respect for the commercial insolvency and bankruptcy practice.

The IIC honours those professionals whose sustained performances in the practice of their profession exemplify the highest standards of professionalism among insolvency specialists by granting them membership.

Membership shall be restricted by invitation to honour those individuals who have proven to their peers, through long, continuous performance in their insolvency specialty that they possess: (i) the highest professional qualifications and ethical standards; (ii) that high level of character, integrity, professional expertise and leadership which demonstrates the likelihood that they will continue to contribute to the enhancement of insolvency scholarship, continuing education and the insolvency process; (iii) a commitment to fostering and furthering the objectives of the IIC; (iv) sustained, exceptionally high quality professional services to clients, bar and public; (v) significant evidence of scholarship, teaching, lecturing, and/or distinguished published writings on bankruptcy practice, procedure, philosophy, improvements and reforms which demonstrates a consistent contribution to the enhancement of bankruptcy and insolvency literature, education, insolvency practice and the insolvency process.

A nominee whose credentials demonstrate a sufficient number of the above criteria so as to identify the nominee as a distinguished, preeminent insolvency professional, shall be eligible to be honoured by admission to membership.