No CLE

This session will cover sub rosa plan issues, third-party releases, developments in examiner appointments, de-SPAC bankruptcies and double-dip financing structures.

This panel will focus on ways in which different levels of government can influence and support the revitalization of distressed real estate, from policy, process and funding perspectives. The panelists will discuss opportunities for public and private partnerships, as well as the interplay between state and local mandates and policies, and will share examples of property revitalization projects. The panelists also will explore policies and tools that aim to address housing availability and reduce homelessness.

Resolved: Opt-out consensual releases are still permissible after Purdue. Resolved: Solvent debtors are required to pay post-petition interest.

This panel will discuss the differences between state court assignments for the benefit of creditors and receiverships, and chapters 11 and 7 and subchapter V.

This panel will discuss a broad range of topics that arise in real estate-driven bankruptcy cases, including issues for landlords with respect to post-petition lease restructuring and the disposition of personal property by debtor tenants; determining the appropriate cramdown interest rates for different real estate sectors in a volatile interest rate environment; special issues implicated in bankruptcies of hospitality-focused real properties; and the particular challenges involved in restructuring partially developed properties.

This panel will discuss and analyze current notable business and consumer bankruptcy cases.

This unique, interactive panel will be presented as a mock trial where financial advisors will be cross-examined by attorneys on valuation issues, including liquidation value.

This panel will address the basic question that all practitioners want answered: How do we get more work? The answer to this and other questions will come from a panel of in-house counsel in different industries and a bankruptcy judge, who will discuss selecting, hiring and cementing relationships for outside counsel for bankruptcy engagements.