Business

This panel will explore the impact of unknown (or unknowable) claims and best practices for attempting to bar such claims through a chapter 11 plan or § 363 sale. The panelists will address cases involving product liability (including the recent GM case), environmental claims, and other situations where due-process concerns could limit the ability to bar such claims.

This session will provide an overview of the requirements to file an involuntary bankruptcy case and the advantages and pitfalls that arise from these filings, including petitioner liabilities.

The Supreme Court’s opinion in Jevic limited the options available to effectuate settlements, particularly over the objection of impacted parties. This panel will discuss creative approaches to implementing settlements and disposing of cases, with a special focus on cases where objecting parties are seeking to prevent settlement.

This panel will discuss the use of rights offerings as a bridge to exiting bankruptcy for reorganizing debtors. The panelists will focus on evolving market trends and hot-button issues arising in recent cases, such as backstop participation and related fees, treatment of nonparticipants, and questions regarding shifting values. We will also touch on other financing alternatives that reorganizing entities may consider in bridging the gap to exit.

Hear from our accomplished panelists as they highlight recent business cases of significance to bankruptcy practitioners.

According to a recent study, 5 out of 4 lawyers struggle with claims calculations! In a mock court presentation, our experts examine diverging opinions over petition period interest rates, use of cash collateral, collateral assignments, and changing collateral values during the petition period.

This lively session traces the trends in the application of the technical approaches to business and securities valuations, and examines the direction the valuation profession is heading in. Are we becoming more of a science or an art, and how will the direction of the profession affect our work and its reliability?