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In recent years, the life sciences sector has faced mounting pressures from capital market volatility, regulatory scrutiny and evolving patient data standards. With a noticeable uptick in financial distress and a decline in successful bankruptcy resolutions, stakeholders are grappling with existential questions about sustainability, compliance, and trust. Bringing together finance, legal, operational and regulatory perspectives, this session will provide attendees with practical insights into how companies can manage risk, preserve value and protect trust – even under duress.

This panel will examine key regulatory developments affecting the health care sector, including recent policy changes, enforcement trends, compliance challenges and stakeholder decision-making, as well as how shifting regulations are influencing restructuring strategies and creditor recoveries.

This panel provides an overview of some key issues, sectors and trends in real estate from a global and cross-border perspective by examining the status of asset class and related global/regional market conditions, issues confronting stakeholders and the legal tools they are using to manage and reposition assets, and predictions for the balance of 2025. Considerations for U.S. investors in non-U.S.-based real estate projects, as well as the perspectives of certain foreign investors or lenders to U.S. real estate-based projects, also is discussed.

Hosted by the Asset Sales CommitteePost-confirmation fiduciaries (trustees, plan administrators and wind-down officers) typically have discrete residual assets that need to be monetized. This webinar will discuss monetizing life insurance policies, partnership interests, judgments, litigation, and other known or unknown remnant assets.

This webinar will discuss efforts currently underway to amend Bankruptcy Rule 9031 to expand judges’ toolboxes and allow for the appointment of special neutrals (a.k.a. special masters), and will focus on practical considerations in evaluating such an amendment.

Hosted by ABI's International Committee  The first in a series of webinars focusing on insolvency topics across geographies, this session delves into issues and strategies affecting asset recovery. Hear from professionals active in countries across Latin America who will explain what legal, financial and logistical challenges they face in recovering assets, both domestically and across borders, and the tips and tools they use to overcome obstacles.

The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA) was implemented on Oct. 17, 2005. This panel of experts will provide their perspectives on the impacts of the law on consumer and business bankruptcies in the 20 years since the law went into effect. John Penn of Perkins Coie (Dallas), who served as ABI's president when BAPCPA became law, will be joined by two former bankruptcy judges who were on the bench at the time of the law's implementation to discuss the developments brought about by BAPCPA, and to share their views on potential bankruptcy law reforms moving forward.

Hosted by the Commercial and Regulatory Law Committee. This webinar will address emerging subchapter V issues and best practices from the perspectives of the debtor and secured and unsecured creditors. The panelists will discuss debtor eligibility for subchapter V, dischargeability of debts through subchapter V, the effects of § 1111(b) elections by secured creditors on subchapter V cases, and subchapter V plan cramdowns.

Sponsored by ABI's Real Estate Committee The commercial real estate economy has weathered back-to-back storms: a global pandemic, which brought swift changes in demand across asset classes and geographic markets, and aggressive Federal Reserve actions to curb inflation with rate hikes, which have finally begun to ease. As we kick off a new year, the ABI Real Estate Committee is presenting a Commercial Real Estate Economic Outlook featuring Brandon Svec, National Director of Analytics for CoStar Group. Brandon will share his views on where things stand on a macroeconomic level, by property type, and on other forces impacting this sector, enabling ABI members to stay ahead when new real estate matters cross their desks. Plus, he frequently presents on the real estate economy to leading lending, development, acquisition, and brokerage firms across the nation. The program will cover key questions, such as: Which asset classes and which parts of the country are showing elevated distress that could present opportunities for ABI members in the year ahead? Is the change in the demand for office space permanent? What impact might the leadership transition in the White House and Congress have on the real estate economy? *This webinar is no longer approved for CLE credit in WI.

This webinar will focus on several hot topics pertaining mediation and ADR, such as the duty of disclosures for mediators and other neutrals, recent issues that have arisen regarding the scope of mediation confidentiality, and the pros and cons of having judicial mediators vs. private mediators.