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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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Cash Collateral and Other Secured Creditor Issues
"This panel will explore the requirements for the use of cash collateral by agreement or court order, including adequate protection. The discussion will include other important issues for secured creditors, such as debtor-in-possession financing, collateral carve-outs to pay committee professionals, cramdown interest rates, and credit bidding in sales of collateral.
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Getting Paid (or Not): Professional Fee Issues
Professional fee issues are always important, both to those who represent estates and those who do not (but sometimes object to the fees of those who do). This panel will discuss the implications of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Baker Botts v. ASARCO, in which the Court answered an intriguing question some bankruptcy lawyers did not realize had been asked: whether counsel for an estate party may recover fees incurred in defending a fee application. The panel will also address continuing issues related to professional fees, including U.S. Trustee Fee Guidelines, big case fee guidelines, and the approval of national billing rates in jurisdictions where local rates are much lower.
The Return of the Supremes
This program will look at the actions of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015, including cases in which the Supreme Court recently granted petitions for certiorari, as well as the dark afterglow of Law v. Siegel. We shall address Stern claims, the definition of “consent,” and what will happen to Dewsnup.
Bankruptcy Medley: Recent News and Cases of Interest
Trending issues, circuit splits and noteworthy topics in bankruptcy courts will be the focus of this discussion. The panel will cover topics of interest in business, with no specific emphasis and in no particular order. Attendees are encouraged to participate with questions and issues drawn from their own experiences.
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