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Join the ABI and SRS Acquiom for a webinar discussing the state of middle-market loans. This segment of the marketplace includes businesses that are too small to attract large bank financing and too large to qualify for small business loans. The event will feature industry experts discussing: current trends impacting the extension of loans; effects of COVID-19; and fresh challenges to the extension of credit facilities.

Sponsored by ABI's Consumer Bankruptcy Committee It is commonly understood that student loans are nearly impossible to discharge in bankruptcy. The standard has become mythical — akin to a “certainty of hopelessness.” Are the Brunner and totality-of-the-circumstances tests realistic standards? If not, what should legislators consider as an alternative? Will successful litigation break the mythical standard, and what could that look like? The prevalence of these cases is increasing every day, as courts are asked more often to evaluate the appropriateness of, and apply, these impossible standards. Simultaneously, the total amount of U.S. student loan debt continues to accelerate toward $2 trillion. Join ABI’s Consumer Committee as two consumer bankruptcy experts, Ed Boltz and Ray Hendren, debate what can — and should — come next.

Hosted by ABI's Mediation Committee Subchapter V trustees, who are likely to be lawyers, accountants or financial advisors, often don't have any formal training in facilitation. This webinar, featuring subchapter V trustees, lawyers and a retired judge with years of experience in bankruptcy and mediation, will cover the fundamentals of facilitation — including its purpose — and basic skills trustees may wish to employ in their work.

This panel will review the implementation, practical effects, unintended consequences, and foreseen and unforeseen problems related to the Small Business Reorganization Act.

This panel will discuss the WARN Act, KERPs and KEIPs, vacation/sick time and the § 507(a)(4) cap, varying state laws on severance claims that are driving the locations of filings, and more.

This panel will focus on impairment, TransWest issues, third-party releases, horizontal gifting related to Noverra and more.

This session will cover one-day cases and the impact of the extraordinary and unforeseen changes in the economy. Are death-trap plans permissible or bad faith? The panelists will also discuss feasibility in a post-COVID world and RSAs.

The panelists will continue the conversation on confirmation by examining judicial vs. market valuation, valuation in light of Speedcast Int’l., equitable mootness, exclusivity termination, and the latest developments in § 363 sales.

The panelists will compare the leniency of bankruptcy courts vs. state courts in regard to real estate, including their flexibility on assumption/rejection and delayed rent payments, and the resulting impact on commercial properties and law firms, as well as adequate protection. The implications of the Fulton decision will also be discussed.

NO CLE Lunch with the judges and faculty from the morning’s panels, with new facilitators leading the discussions. Sponsored by BakerHostetler and Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones Confirmation: Brave New World? Damian S. Schaible Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP; New York Confirmation: The Rest of the Story Dan T. Moss Jones Day; Washington, D.C. The Changing Real Estate Landscape Lorenzo Marinuzzi Morrison & Foerster LLP; New York