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Financial Advisors Track - Advising the Corporate Entity This panel will explore the issues and challenges for lawyers and financial advisors arising in connection with advising companies on corporate-governance issues.

Has TOUSA changed the legal standard for what is reasonably equivalent value? What is the fate of affiliate guarantees? Do lenders now need to investigate the use of the loan proceeds?

Bankruptcy for the Self-Employed

Case law Update: The Northern District's New Judges Talk about Split Consumer Issues The Northern District's New Judges Talk about Split Consumer Issues

Challenges and Strategic Considerations of a Large Corporate Filing in Mexico The panel will discuss the challenges of large filings, including the lack of DIP financing and the absolute-priority rule, labor issues, collective creditors, feasibility of pre-packaged and pre-negotiated bankruptcies, and litigation, as well as considerations related to IFECOM.

Does the absolute priority rule still require absolute priority?; protecting stock transfers from avoidance actions through the use of 11 U.S.C. § 546(e); implications of the Dodd-Frank Act; substantive consolidation; liquidating Chapter 11s: potential conflicts of interest when unsecured creditors’ committee is the liquidating agent; credit-bidding issues.

Phelps & Rhodes Productions Presents: Trustee and the Badoff Investor Class v. Bigbank—a Mock Trial

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.