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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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Fiduciary Duties: Rights and Wrongs for Directors of Financially Troubled Companies
This panel will delve into recent trends in breach-of-duty litigation against officers and directors, developments in Delaware fiduciary duty case law that bankruptcy lawyers should know about, standing to assert D&O claims, the in pari delicto defense, D&O insurance coverage issues, breach-of-duty claims against lenders, and D&O litigation involving private-equity funds. Cases to be discussed include Liberty State Benefits of Delaware Inc., MF Global Holdings Ltd. and SGK Ventures LLC.
Great Debates - Georgetown Univ. Law Center; Views from the Bench
Great Debates
Paul M. Nussbaum, Moderator
Whiteford Taylor Preston, LLP; Baltimore
Resolved: A structured dismissal that violates the absolute priority rule should never be permitted.
Pro: Craig Goldblatt
WilmerHale; Washington, D.C.
Con: Hon. Kevin J. Carey
U.S. Bankruptcy Court (D. Del.); Wilmington
Resolved: Asset sales under § 363 should lawfully be free and clear of successor-liability claims.
Pro: Hon. Robert E. Gerber (ret.)
U.S. Bankruptcy Court (S.D.N.Y.); New York
Con: William P. Weintraub
Goodwin Procter LLP; New York
Confirmation and Beyond
This panel will explore a variety of issues related to plan confirmation, including artificial impairment (Village Green I, GP v. Federal National Mortgage Association), cramdown interest rates/subordination/make-whole provisions (MPM Silicones) and third-party releases (Millennium Lab Holdings).
Clean-Up in Aisle 5: Does Bankruptcy Still Work for Retail?
Are lenders finding strategies to avoid the Code’s landlord protections? This panel will explore whether a debtor’s obligation to timely perform is being honored, rejection/assumption rules modified in DIP orders, use of nunc pro tunc rejection to minimize claims, and other issues in today’s retail cases.
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