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This panel will explore the evolving world of Merchant Cash Advances (MCAs), offering attendees a clear understanding of how MCA transactions work and their role in business financing. Experts will discuss the current legal and regulatory environment shaping the industry, as well as the practical costs and benefits for both funders and merchants. Whether you're new to MCAs or looking to deepen your insight, this session will provide valuable perspectives from legal, financial, and operational standpoints.
Understanding and calculating income can be challenging when it isn't consistent. This panel will explore strategies for assessing income for individuals with variable earnings, including seasonal employees, gig workers, self-employed individuals, and those receiving overtime or bonuses. The panelists also will discuss best practices, tools and policy considerations to ensure accurate and fair income determination in complex financial situations.
Health care bankruptcies present unique legal, operational and regulatory challenges that require specialized strategies and coordination. This session examines recent high-profile health care bankruptcy cases and will analyze the factors driving financial distress in hospitals, senior care facilities and other medical providers. The panelists explore such issues as patient care continuity, treatment of Medicare and Medicaid claims, the role of governmental regulators, and the impact of health care-specific rules on restructuring efforts. Whether representing debtors, creditors or other stakeholders, practitioners will gain insights into navigating the complexities of insolvency in the health care sector.
This webinar will discuss efforts currently underway to amend Bankruptcy Rule 9031 to expand judges’ toolboxes and allow for the appointment of special neutrals (a.k.a. special masters), and will focus on practical considerations in evaluating such an amendment.
As generative AI becomes part of the bankruptcy and restructuring toolbox, professionals face exciting opportunities — and serious obligations. This interactive panel will dive into real-world uses of AI tools, best practices for effective prompting, and the ethical rules you really don’t want to break. The panelists will include live demonstrations and audience Q&A, and discuss how courts and clients are responding to this fast-changing landscape.
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Ethics (2021 New York City Bankruptcy Conference)
This panel discussion will delve into a plethora of ethical issues pulled from today’s headlines, including litigation funding, professional compensation, protection and use of material nonpublic information, “connections,” Alix v. McKinsey litigation, and issues created by the pandemic and our remote-work environment.
Intercreditor Disputes
This panel will examine creditors vs. creditors in liability-management transactions (Boardriders, Serta, Travelport, Trimark), collective actions and credit bidding (Speedcast, Alta Masa, Empire Generating, Allied), strict foreclosure in light of TIA 316(b) (CNH Diversified Opportunities v. Cleveland Unlimited), de facto claim-subordination (La Paloma), rights preserved for junior creditors under an intercreditor agreement (do the exceptions swallow the rule (Claires, Momentive)?), and practical considerations such as coordination agreements, unitranche facilities and CLOs in restructurings.
Post-Restructuring
This panel will discuss the disposition of restructured equity, including § 1145 and other limitations and exemptions; selecting and managing post-restructured boards, and how to assemble a new board with a view toward maximizing value; issues attendant to the recruitment of pertinent and qualified directors; departures from rent-a-director; use of independent directors on a new board; granting of observer rights; perspectives of being a member of a well-run post-restructured board; shareholder voting and control considerations, including minority rights; incentivizing management through MIPs, KEIPs/KERPs and employment agreement considerations (e.g., CoC/severance); fostering long-term shareholder value; antitrust issues; and public vs. private emergence.
Liquidating Outside of Chapter 11: Considerations for Cannabis and Other Companies Not Eligible for Chapter 11
This panel will compare and contrast liquidations and wind-downs under chapter 11, federal and state receiverships, ABCs, and judicial dissolutions. The panelists also will take a look at tools that are available and the risks attendant to each. Which companies are more appropriate for which type of liquidation option: cannabis and related company insolvencies, or higher education institutions?
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