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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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It’s All About the Third-Party Releases
This panel will cover recent pertinent case law, analyze trends in increased district court oversight of bankruptcy courts, and examine the policy considerations for and against both consensual and nonconsensual nondebtor third-party releases, the relevant standards for approval on the merits, the scope of consent (opt-in vs. opt-out), the use of death-trap plan voting to encourage a consensual release, and the question of a bankruptcy court’s power to award them.
From Green to Red: What Insolvency Professionals Need to Know About Cannabis
This panel will discuss the issues that arise when the growing state-sanctioned cannabis trade intersects with the insolvency world, in both commercial and consumer settings. The panel will discuss the federal statutory scheme governing marijuana, its tension with state laws governing marijuana businesses, and the ability or inability of marijuana-related businesses and individuals involved in the industry to access the relief provided in the bankruptcy courts when facing financial insolvency. The panel will also address state court receiverships and other non-bankruptcy methods for dealing with cannabis related businesses, and special concerns that lenders and other parties should address when dealing with those in the industry.
Tort Settlements: Undisclosed Assets
The petition is filed. At the § 341 meeting, the trustee asks the debtor whether there have been any personal-injury actions, whether the debtor has the right to sue someone, and whether the debtor inherited any assets 180 days prior to the petition date or within 180 days after the petition date. However, debtor clients often intentionally or inadvertently fail to disclose an asset. This panel will explore best practices for dealing with these and other post-filing litigation pitfalls, and for handling cases where there are undisclosed or undiscovered assets.
Smooth Sailing: A Guide to Navigating the Choppy Waters of Health Care M&A
This panel will cover the various overlapping bankruptcy law and regulatory issues facing the transfer of a health care business, including financing obstacles, license transfers, successor liability, recapturing of Medicare or Medicaid overpayments, attorney general consent procedures, and related governmental issues particular to health care transactions. This practical panel will include tips of the trade for paving the way to a smooth closing and transition.
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