Free Sessions (no CLE)

This panel will provide an overview and discussion of the current status of the law on subchapter V, including any recent legislation and the ABI Subchapter V Task Force's Final Report. The panelists will cover such key legal issues as eligibility, plan confirmation and other topics, the role of the subchapter V trustee both during the case and after plan confirmation, and important post-confirmation issues such as plan defaults and reporting.

This panel will analyze the drivers that are fueling the increasing number of health care bankruptcy filings, as well as the unique challenges facing health care debtors post-petition.

This panel will analyze three major Supreme Court bankruptcy decisions (Kaiser Gypsum, Purdue Pharma and John Q. Hammons Fall) issued during its 2023-24 term, and the implications of these decisions for pending and future bankruptcy cases.

This panel will cover recent developments in liability-management transactions, a.k.a. creditor-on-creditor violence. The panelists will discuss the mechanics of uptier, drop-down and double-dip transactions, approaching each type of deal from the viewpoints of various parties in interest.

This panel will engage in a robust discussion and examination of various oversight roles in the restructuring process, based on the panelists' numerous viewpoints.

This panel will address the basic question that all practitioners want answered: How do we get more work? The answer to this and other questions will come from a panel of in-house counsel in different industries and a bankruptcy judge, who will discuss selecting, hiring and cementing relationships for outside counsel for bankruptcy engagements.

This panel will discuss the diverging good-faith and bad-faith standards governing dismissal of bankruptcy petitions under § 1112(b)’s “for cause” provision, including for an alleged lack of financial distress in the wake of the Third Circuit’s LTL decision in 2023. The panelists also will discuss post­-LTL efforts to impose a similar standard in the Fourth Circuit in the Bestwall and Aldrich & Murray cases, which thus far have been unsuccessful.

For many reasons, distressed commercial real estate appears to be a part of the foreseeable corporate landscape. As businesses wrestle with back-to-the-office issues and retail bankruptcies, the market is bracing for an influx of tenants and landlords struggling with increased interest rates and property owners addressing debt maturities with an often-shrinking tenant base. This panel will help attendees navigate the effects of these issues, and what they could mean for investors and restructuring professionals, by presenting the perspectives of landlords, debtors, committees and lenders, as well as the bench.

This interactive and informal panel will discuss pathways to promotion, navigating the judicial selection process or preparing for an award or similar application, and how to effectively promote others applying for recognitions or awards. The panelists also will provide tips for harmonizing personal and professional lives.