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This panel will discuss the latest updates on cross-border fraud issues, including the cross-border interplay between the SEC and U.S. state receiverships, domestic litigation, and liquidations in the Cayman Islands. The panelists will highlight the SEC v. TCA Fund case, which involved a huge fraud committed on investors in a master feeder structure, the issues surrounding the Florida receiver’s motion to approve a distribution plan in that case, and the conflict with Cayman law that, if applied, would produce a drastically different result than the plan proposed by the receiver.

This panel will discuss eligibility issues and strategies related to chapters 11 and 15, filing in other jurisdictions, and cases such as Modern Land, Global Cord Blood and Comair Ltd.

Large cryptocurrency filings have been making headlines, but the implications and complexities of these filings are even broader. This panel will discuss what you need to consider when navigating a cryptocurrency filing, such as valuation issues, custodial arrangements, pending white collar investigations, and the challenges such complexities pose.

This session covers what you need to know to be involved in a crypto insolvency proceeding, and takes a look at proposed Article 12 to the UCC.

This session covers what you need to know to be involved in a crypto insolvency proceeding, and takes a look at proposed Article 12 to the UCC.

Stunning failures across the crypto ecosystem have caused many to question the future of the industry and ask whether the crypto boom was purely fueled by speculation. Allegations of misfeasance at FTX and the interrelatedness of major industry participants create understandable questions, and business models have been shown to be flawed. This panel discussion will explain industry issues, unique bankruptcy challenges, and what the future of the crypto industry might look like.

This session will discuss crypto asset and exchange valuation parameters and deal structures, and how investors and analysts alike were duped by FTX and its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, to invest in his multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. SBF had painted himself as an industry saint, but he now acknowledges the firm's “massive failure of oversight of risk management.” The panelists will analyze 2022's largest crypto failures — FTX, BlockFi, Three Arrows Capital, Voyager Digital and Celsius Network — and will address their crypto asset valuation parameters, forensic data sources, trading models, likely stakeholder recoveries, failures of internal controls, current and likely future regulatory controls, and corporate integrity and governance protocols in order to understand how these virtual currencies rose and subsequently collapsed.

This panel will provide an update on cryptocurrency’s adoption and integration into the global financial system. The panelists will share practical approaches for bankruptcy practitioners to identify, take possession of and manage cryptocurrency in bankruptcy cases.

The panelists will discuss current hot issues in cryptocurrency and the ways in which they converge with insolvency proceedings. After providing a brief cryptocurrency overview, the panelists will address legislative and regulatory updates, and their effects on bankruptcy cases. The panelists also will discuss such current cryptocurrency-focused insolvency cases as Cred, Inc., Celsius, Voyager and Three Arrows Capital, and the crypto-specific bankruptcy issues they present.