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Hosted by the Commercial & Regulatory Law and Unsecured Trade Creditors Committees This panel will explore issues that are driving value in health care bankruptcies, particularly issues of import to unsecured creditors. Included in the discussion will be the priority and impact of Medicaid provider fees, difficulties in valuing health care receivables and the resulting effects on claim status and cost of financing, the landscape of chapter 9 as a vehicle for the restructuring of a public health care debtor, and the treatment and saleability of provider agreements.

Hosted by the Claims Trading and Financial Advisors & Investment Banking Committees This panel will discuss out-of-court loan-priming issues such as Serta and Transocean, among others.

Hosted by the Commercial and Regulatory Law and Health Care Committees This panel will address issues that have recently arisen at the intersection of health care and commercial/regulatory law, including regulation and ownership of cloud-based/electronic records, state regulation of nonprofit debtors, and recent developments in Medicare/Medicaid recoupment rights.

Hosted by the Ethics & Professional Compensation and Emerging Industries & Technology Committees This panel will dive into the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, which require lawyers to be competent in technology. The panelists will review today’s hot ethical technology pointers, as well as pitfalls that every insolvency professional should be aware of in their practice.

Bankruptcy discharges go to “honest but unfortunate debtors,” but creditors (because they want their money!) don’t always give up their quests to extract money, even after a bankruptcy case concludes. These useful case examples will guide practitioners through a survey of the most common quarrels over discharges and exceptions.

Insolvency professionals work in a multitude of environments, including firms of all sizes, in-house and at financial advising companies. Not every job will have a dedicated DEI department or director. This panel will address how legal professionals can still encourage diversity within the insolvency profession and promote the inclusion of diverse legal professionals at every level.

You’ve read the headlines: hacked databases, stolen information, all becoming increasingly commonplace. Unfortunately, the question now is not whether your information is going to be accessed or stolen, but when. This session will inform attendees of current developments in the digital underground, and will provide realistic advice for cyberprotection. Included in the discussion will be recent high-profile cybercrime events, including website breaches impacting a variety of organizations and sectors, and particularly dangerous types of threats that might affect individuals involving the so-called dark web, the internet of things, phishing and wi-fi attacks, and the value of leveraging digital evidence and ESI in bankruptcy proceedings.

The panelists will discuss the recent reemergence of SPACs and will elaborate on the public policy and restructuring implications associated with them. This discussion of creative financing structures will focus on financing in a distressed environment, including three mini-case studies and emerging issues in litigation financing.

This panel discussion will delve into a plethora of ethical issues pulled from today’s headlines, including litigation funding, professional compensation, protection and use of material nonpublic information, “connections,” Alix v. McKinsey litigation, and issues created by the pandemic and our remote-work environment.

This panel discussion will delve into a plethora of ethical issues pulled from today’s headlines, including litigation funding, professional compensation, protection and use of material nonpublic information, “connections,” Alix v. McKinsey litigation, and issues created by the pandemic and our remote-work environment.