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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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Bankruptcy Litigation
This panel will present a fraudulent transfer update and discussion regarding the split
over § 546(e) safe harbors (Physiotherapy, Tribune, Madoff, Meritt Management),
10-year reach-back periods (Kipnis), the reinstatement of unsecured creditors’
intentional fraudulent conveyance claims and the ruling that the intent of the CEO
can be imputed to the company (Lyondell), the finding that substantive consolidation
does not augment the trustee’s § 544(b) avoiding powers by allowing the trustee to
rely on predicate creditors from another estate (Petters), and the ruling that access to
a credit line rebuts unreasonably small capital claims (SemCrude). The session will
also feature an update on the Trust Indenture Act, including discussion of the recent
Second Circuit decision in Chesapeake Energy and its implications regarding the
finality of bankruptcy court orders, and an update on the litigation of feasibility
issues (Paragon).
Cross-Border Panel
This panel will discuss the domestic reach of the foreign stay (Sanjel) and recognition
of judgments/rulings in cross-border cases, including offshore bankruptcies, as well
as non-U.S. companies filing for chapter 11 and the consequences thereof
(Ocean Fisheries, Hanjin and Abengoa)
LLC Bankruptcies
This panel will focus on issues that can arise during an LLC bankruptcy, such as
what happens when parties contract out of fiduciary duties and the effect that
bankruptcy has on key provisions in an LLC operating agreement, including
management and ownership rights and remedies, as well as what happens when a
bankruptcy proceeding is initiated against the LLC or one or more of its members.
The panel will also discuss Intervention Energy and Lake Michigan, in which the
bankruptcy courts refused to enforce LLC agreement provisions requiring the
respective LLCs to obtain the unanimous consent of their members in order to
seek bankruptcy relief.
Nobody Likes to Face Rejection: Recent Issues Regarding Executory Contracts
Hosted by the Business Reorganization and Unsecured Trade Creditors Committees
This session will focus on recent case law developments in the area of executory contracts. The panelists will discuss issues concerning gathering agreements and the Sabine Oil decision, collective bargaining agreements, telecommunication agreements and more.
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