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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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Committee: Extraterritorial Limits Of Clawback Actions
Hosted by the Bankruptcy Litigation and Commercial Fraud Committees
This panel will explore whether and how far U.S. avoidance provisions might apply extraterritorially, and will discuss the challenges and pitfalls of alternate theories of recovery.
Committee: Plan Issues Facing Secured And Unsecured Creditors
Hosted by the Secured Credit and Unsecured Trade Creditors Committees
Unsecured trade creditors and secured creditors confront similar plan analysis issues, including gerrymandering, vote incentivization schemes, drop dead provisions, and golden shares. The panel will discuss some of those “creative” plan provisions and interesting confirmation issues that impact both secured and unsecured creditors.
Committee: Thorny Issues In An Individual Chapter 11 Case
Hosted by the Consumer Bankruptcy and Young and New Members Committees
A panel of experienced judges and lawyers will discuss some of the challenging issues in individual chapter 11 cases, including: the absolute priority rule, conflicts of interest, case administration, appointment of trustees, differences between Ch. 11 and Ch. 13, and plan feasibility.
Judges’ Round-And-Round
In this round-and-round format, visit with leading judges (each at their own roundtables) to discuss and debate the nation’s most important recent business and consumer bankruptcy decisions.
Hon. Douglas L. Lutz
Hon. Martin R. Barash
Kevin J. Carey
Hon. Scott C. Clarkson
Daniel P. Collins
Hon. Mary Grace Diehl
Con: Hon. Dennis R. Dow
Hon. Robert D. Drain
Hon. Michael A. Fagone
Hon. Bruce A. Harwood
Hon. Barbara J. Houser
Hon. Laurel Myerson Isicoff
Hon. Deborah J. Saltzman
Hon. Deborah L. Thorne
Mr. Eugene R. Wedoff
Hon. William H. Brown
Randall L. Dunn
Hon. David W. Houston
Hon. Elizabeth L. Perris
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