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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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ABI-LIVE: Back to Basics Series – What Every Restructuring Professional Should Know about Financial Statements and Monthly Operating Reports
There are many lawyers and business professionals who enter the restructuring world without accounting or business backgrounds and have a learning curve to overcome when it comes to, for instance, getting a snapshot of the current financial picture of a business by reviewing financial statements or understanding what goes into monthly operating reports and cash flow analyses.
This webinar will therefore serve as a useful tool for professionals by:
*Reviewing in a non-technical manner accounting basics for beginners;
*Reviewing financial statements and monthly operating reports and the types of information included in such documents;
*Explaining what restructuring professionals look for when reviewing financial statements or MORs to determine the issues facing a given company.
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ABI-LIVE: Back to Basics Series - All Three Sessions
- What Every Restructuring Professional Should Know about Financial Statements and Monthly Operating Reports
- What Every Restructuring Professional Should Know about Using Financial Documents as Evidence
- What Every Restructuring Professional Should Know about Hedge Funds
Do's and Dont's of Written Advocacy
Your pleadings and briefs are the first, often the last and typically the most comprehensive opportunity you have to persuade a court. This panel will provide you with essential guidance for effective and persuasive written advocacy at both the trial and appellate levels.
The Ethics of Using Social Networking Sites
Following an introductory video clip about the dangers of social networking in litigation, a panel featuring a judge, a trustee and a practitioner will lead a discussion on the inherent risks in using social networking, some of the ethical issues involved, and suggestions for how to manage these business and ethical risks that are associated with the ever-changing world of social networking.
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