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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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Third-Party Releases: Is There a Fair Price to Pay?
Under the SDNY ruling in Purdue, the extent of consideration paid to third-party releases is a factor in approving such releases. This panel will explore current trends in valuing contributions by affiliates, insurers and other guarantors in mass tort cases.
Keynote Speaker: Paul G. Vallas
Heralded by many as the savior and Mr. Turnaround of public school systems in post-Katrina New Orleans, as well as in Chicago and Philadelphia, Paul Vallas achieved proven track records for boosting reading scores, STEM competency, grade-level proficiencies and graduation rates across a broad band of neighborhoods and demographics, not to mention balanced budgets, labor relations and unprecedented post-hurricane rebuilding challenges. Viewing our national education system as the Achilles heel of 21st century America, Vallas will preview his upcoming three papers being published by the Manhattan Institute that provide a national fix-it plan to build a foundation for literacy, job skills, community safety, economic mobility and American competitiveness. Come hear the architect of one of our country’s greatest turnaround stories as he discusses his work and what’s next.
Industry Overviews: Retail, Commercial Real Estate, Specialty Health Care Providers/Pharma, Energy.
Energy
Megatrends create volatility in the energy market. In 2024, elections, various regional conflicts, concerns about climate change, and the feasibility and marketability of various forms of energy make the valuation of “energy” a potentially tenuous endeavor. This session provides a how-to guide for five-year business plans, capital-adequacy tests and cash-flow tests across the energy industry, and discusses how to meet the bar for stress-testing under Judge Shannon’s Kravitz v. Sampson Energy decision.
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Douglas E. Spelfogel
Jonathan P. Goulding
Surbhi Gupta
Hon. Thomas M. Horan
Commercial Real Estate-
David Levy
Navin Nagrani
Specialty Health Care Providers/Pharma-
Stuart Neiberg
David Light
Kelly E. Singer
Sidney S. Welch
Energy-
Lorie R. Beers
Kenneth J. Malek
Matthew W. Moran
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