Business

This panel will provide an in-depth review and analysis of chapter 13 pre- and post-confirmation issues, pitfalls, and practice tips to fully equip consumer practitioners with the tools they need to face any issues that may arise.

Commercial real estate continues to be affected by the modification in work culture brought on by COVID-19 restritctions. The market is bracing for a record amount of maturing loans, boosting the prospect of a surge in defaults as property owners are forced to refinance empty or nearly empty office spaces at higher rates. This panel will address the impact of these issues and what they may mean for investors and restructuring professionals.

With a sluggish return to office, a looming maturity wall and a challenging refinancing environment, distress in commercial real estate looks to be here to stay for the foreseeable future. This panel will help attendees navigate this complex environment while offering diverse perspectives representing landlords, debtors, committees and lenders, as well as from the bench.

For many reasons, distressed commercial real estate appears to be a part of the foreseeable corporate landscape. As businesses wrestle with back-to-the-office issues and retail bankruptcies, the market is bracing for an influx of tenants and landlords struggling with increased interest rates and property owners addressing debt maturities with an often-shrinking tenant base. This panel will help attendees navigate the effects of these issues, and what they could mean for investors and restructuring professionals, by presenting the perspectives of landlords, debtors, committees and lenders, as well as the bench.

This panel will help you gain a better perspective on the ways in which corporate directors’ duties morph when a company begins to experience distress. What changes should you be making, through what lens will you analyze past board dealings, and how might you provide revised governance controls to best guide the entity going forward? The panelists will provide their expertise into the pitfalls and practices of governing in the zone of insolvency, and will examine the empirical research regarding outcomes at times like these.

This panel will discuss different tactics creditors use to pursue the collection of debt, how debtors can defend against collection efforts and pursue claims when a creditor has gone too far, how creditors can minimize their exposure to such claims, and the potential impacts of pre-petition proceedings on creditors and debtors when a debtor files a bankruptcy petition.

This panel will cover recent developments in liability-management transactions, a.k.a. creditor-on-creditor violence. The panelists will discuss the mechanics of uptier, drop-down and double-dip transactions, approaching each type of deal from the viewpoints of various parties in interest.

Ponzi and other fraudulent schemes continue to proliferate. Many of these schemes, event if primarily targeted at Americans, operate using offshore entities in the Caribbean. As a result, resolving such schemes typically involves domestic receiverships or bankruptcy coupled with offshore liquidation proceedings. The victims’ recoveries may vary widely depending on whether the distribution of the scheme’s remaining assets is determined by U.S. bankruptcy law, U.S. common law or foreign law. This panel will explore the various ways in which U.S. and foreign laws implicate victims’ recoveries, as well as potential changes to those laws.

Using illustrative scenarios and case studies, this panel of experts from the U.S., U.K., Singapore, the Netherlands and Spain will discuss the possibilities for binding dissenting classes of stakeholders to restructurings in their respective jurisdictions.