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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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Professional Development Track: Oral and Written Advocacy in Bankruptcy
This panel of local bankruptcy judges will address what works and what doesn’t work in both written and oral advocacy. Thus, whether you are a new lawyer just starting out or a seasoned litigator looking to hone your skills, this session is for you.
Business Track: Select Issues from the ABI Chapter 11 Commission Report
Two of the commissioners from the ABI’s Chapter 11 Reform Commission (and former ABI presidents) will give a report on two parts of the Commission Report that could impact your everyday practice. Jim Markus will discuss the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises section and Geoff Berman will discuss Avoidance Actions
Consumer Track: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau- Consumer Industry Watchdog
Many consumers feel the mortgage and credit industry has been nipping at their heels for a long time without any rhyme or reason. The CFPB was enacted as the watchdog to protect the consumer through education, enforcement of the law and through studying the behavior of the creditor industry. This Panel will introduce you to the benefits and services of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
Professional Development Track: Negotiating Successful Workout Agreements: The Human Element
This panel will deal will the human side of workouts and how deals get successfully negotiated. Some of the topics to be covered may include managing expectations, creating common understanding of facts, building and earning trust, face-to-face meetings, understanding motivations and concerns, managing disruptive personalities, back-channel communications, win-win vs. win-lose negotiating styles and more.
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