No CLE

This panel will discuss recent Supreme Court cases.

A panel of judges will discuss current issues that divide the circuits and other hot topics relevant to both consumer and business bankruptcy practitioners.

This panel will explore issues that arise during the operation of commercial chapter 7 cases and how they are being addressed by bankruptcy judges, trustees and attorneys.

Superman vs. Mighty Mouse: Whose Superpowers Prevail when a Federal Monitor, Trustee and/or Receiver Collide in a Colossal Case of Health Care Fraud?

A Comity of Errors: International Electronic Communications and Cyber-fraud in Transnational Bankruptcy Cases

Lender vs. Lender: Let’s Get Ready to Rumble

The panel will explore many of the major differences between U.S. chapter 11 and the Concurso Mercantil and discuss such topics as bondholder recognition, classification of claims, creditor voting and confirmation of a reorganization plan, financing issues and sale of assets.

Legal and cultural investor considerations in specific European jurisdictions (e.g., U.K., Germany and Spain); how the option of U.S. chapter 11 influences investor outcomes; update on the status of bankruptcy reforms in European jurisdictions; multi-jurisdictional issues within European restructurings; how the distressed market functions and impacts restructurings (liquidity, transparency, etc.)

How does a U.S. court deal with allegations that a foreign proceeding or judicial system is flawed or corrupt?; dealing with “corporate groups”; the continuing saga of Nortel, Vitro and Elpida; cooperation and enforcement of judgments

Plan-support agreements and third-party releases, venue, equitable mootness, designation of votes and separate classification. Non CLE.