Business

This panel will focus on recent updates and trends in the Cayman Islands related to arbitrations and mediations, Russian sanctions and other important developments.

This panel will discuss hot topics in 2022 chapter 11 filings, including the “Texas Two-Step” strategy (e.g., J & J/JTL Management, LLC, Certain Tweed/DBMP LLC, Georgia Pacific/Bestwall, and Trane Technologies/Aldrich Pump) and 3M; Siegel v. Fitzgerald (what happens now, and what the remedy will be on remand); an update on third-party releases; and bankruptcy-related cases the Supreme Court is going to hear this term.

This panel will address recent decisions, including Modern Land, affecting the standard for recognition of a foreign insolvency proceeding as either a foreign main or nonmain proceeding. Additionally, the panelists will discuss recent decisions concerning third-party releases in chapter 15 cases, including In re PT Pan Brothers Tbk, Case No. 22-10136-mg (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2022).

Join ABI Editor-at-Large Bill Rochelle for this fun and informative session as he and several bankruptcy judges discuss circuit splits and hot topics on important bankruptcy issues. An attendee favorite!

Join ABI Editor-at-Large Bill Rochelle for this fun and informative session as he and several bankruptcy judges discuss circuit splits and hot topics on important bankruptcy issues. An attendee favorite!

Climate change is ravaging the world through droughts, flooding, fires, intense heat and deforestation, among other environmental events. Numerous industries have already been impacted, and other industries will be affected, including agriculture, hospitality, construction and insurance. This panel provides an overview of the economic impact of climate change and the ways in which insolvency professionals will be expected to address this ever-increasing cause of financial distress.

Law firms, law schools and even courts are not free from bias — the types of bias that you may be aware of, such as race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity and disability, but also some types of bias that you might never have focused on. This panel discusses how to identify and work toward eliminating these biases.

This panel will delve into everything you ever wanted to know about the intersection of construction law and bankruptcy.

This session will highlight particularly interesting case law developments to date since 2022, and their impacts on bankruptcy law and practice.