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This panel will discuss features of mass tort cases — including stays of actions and discovery against nondebtors, releases for nondebtors, the role of future claims representatives, and insurance neutrality — and the effects of recent case law.

The panelists and the audience will discuss the fundamentals of mediation and risk assessment, focusing on key skills that can increase the effectiveness of their mediations. This session will cover best practices for mediators to maximize their chances for successful mediations, common pitfalls in assessing your client’s risk and how to overcome them, and the importance of confidentiality in mediation.

This panel will discuss the use of AI in insolvency proceedings, as well as service of process via social media in such recent cases as Three Arrows Capital (3AC).

This panel will discuss what happens when lenders default on paying borrowers for non-monetary reasons, such as covenant or compliance violations on real estate loans like debt-coverage-ratio violations. The lenders’ goal is to regain possession of the real estate for investment purposes and deploy it at higher interest rates. The panelists will discuss the impact and efficacy of this strategy from all angles: institutional lender-side, borrower-side and investor-side.

A team of ABI “40 Under 40” honorees, in the role of the debtor’s professional advisory team, will present the debtor’s value-maximizing plan of reorganization.

Panelists representing the stakeholders in the case (secured creditors, bondholders, trade, equity) will discuss their strategies to increase their constituents’ respective pieces of the pie.

Stakeholders will discuss how fraudulent-transfer issues and their potential resolutions affect their strategies.

The debtor’s professional advisory team will describe how the plan of reorganization ultimately comes out after negotiations.