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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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ABI: Anatomy of a Virtual Trial: A How-To Guide to Trials in the Age of COVID-19
With courthouses shutting their doors due to COVID-19, trials across the country have been put in an indefinite holding pattern. Certain state and federal courts, bar organizations and private groups have begun pilot-testing courtroom innovations, procedural reforms and presentation technologies to convert jury and bench trials into an online format. This session will address the bench's and bar’s current conversation on if, how and when to conduct trials online. Particular emphasis will be paid to testimonial, documentary and legal decision-making issues germane to bankruptcy trials.
ABI: Force Majeure and Business-Interruption Insurance
You learned about it in law school, but have never seen it since. In light of the COVID-19 effects on business operations, this panel will discuss the general applicability of force majeure provisions in contracts, how they excuse or suspend performance, and exceptions to a boilerplate contract provision that we rarely see enforced until recently. The panel will also discuss business interruption insurance in the context of the Pandemic.
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