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This panel will explore the evolving world of Merchant Cash Advances (MCAs), offering attendees a clear understanding of how MCA transactions work and their role in business financing. Experts will discuss the current legal and regulatory environment shaping the industry, as well as the practical costs and benefits for both funders and merchants. Whether you're new to MCAs or looking to deepen your insight, this session will provide valuable perspectives from legal, financial, and operational standpoints.
Understanding and calculating income can be challenging when it isn't consistent. This panel will explore strategies for assessing income for individuals with variable earnings, including seasonal employees, gig workers, self-employed individuals, and those receiving overtime or bonuses. The panelists also will discuss best practices, tools and policy considerations to ensure accurate and fair income determination in complex financial situations.
Health care bankruptcies present unique legal, operational and regulatory challenges that require specialized strategies and coordination. This session examines recent high-profile health care bankruptcy cases and will analyze the factors driving financial distress in hospitals, senior care facilities and other medical providers. The panelists explore such issues as patient care continuity, treatment of Medicare and Medicaid claims, the role of governmental regulators, and the impact of health care-specific rules on restructuring efforts. Whether representing debtors, creditors or other stakeholders, practitioners will gain insights into navigating the complexities of insolvency in the health care sector.
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.
As generative AI becomes part of the bankruptcy and restructuring toolbox, professionals face exciting opportunities — and serious obligations. This interactive panel will dive into real-world uses of AI tools, best practices for effective prompting, and the ethical rules you really don’t want to break. The panelists will include live demonstrations and audience Q&A, and discuss how courts and clients are responding to this fast-changing landscape.
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Considerations for Winding Up a Business: A Conversation with Your Client
This session will provide a checklist of the topics to address with the management of a failing business in that first meeting with the client.
ABI-Live: International/Cross-Border Litigation: Judgment Enforcement and Venue Considerations
ABI's Financial Advisors and Investment Banking and International Committees.
International and cross-border disputes often involve collections issues and venue considerations. This panel of experts in cross-border and international litigation will share their professional experiences and insights on how best to approach these types of claims, and ways to collect on them.
ABI-Live: Commercial Real Estate Economic Outlook
Sponsored by ABI's Real Estate Committee, Keen-Summit Capital Partners LLC and Summit Investment Management LLC
Summit Investment Management LLC, Keen-Summit Capital Partners LLC and ABI's Real Estate Committee are pleased to present this webinar on the economic outlook for commercial real estate, once again featuring real estate economist and futurist Kiernan “KC” Conway, who drew rave reviews from his presentation last year. Mr. Conway is the chief economist for the CCIM Institute, principal and co-founder of consulting firm Red Shoe Economics, and a former commercial real estate subject-matter expert for the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank. Program topics will include a review of key asset classes, the impact of inflation on the real estate economy, lasting changes stemming from remote work, how geopolitics pose risks to the sector, and other timely topics to arm practitioners with important information about the real estate economy. Industry veterans will kick off the program with an overview of the credit and transaction markets.
Great Debates
Resolved: Bankruptcy courts do not have the authority to approve nonconsensual releases of direct claimsheld by third parties against nondebtors as part of a chapter 11 plan or reorganization. Pro: Hon. Eugene R.Wedoff (ret.); Con: Marshall S. Huebner
Resolved: Trustee requests of debtors for documents andinformation beyond that already required by the Code and Rules should not be routinely undertaken, butinstead should be limited to inquiries suggested by issues arising in specific cases. Pro: Tiffany L. Carroll;Con: Gary R. Stickell
Resolved: The Seventh Circuit was wrong in Sheehan v. Breccia Unlimited Co. (In reSheehan), 21-2946 (7th Cir. Sept. 9, 2022), when it barred U.S. bankruptcy courts from stopping foreigncreditors from taking action against a debtor’s assets abroad when the U.S. court has no general or specificpersonal jurisdiction over the creditors. Pro: Hon. Christopher S. Sontchi (ret.); Con: Hon. David R. Jones.
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