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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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The Ethics of Using Social Networking Sites
Following an introductory video clip about the dangers of social networking in litigation, a panel featuring a judge, a trustee and a practitioner will lead a discussion on the inherent risks in using social networking, some of the ethical issues involved, and suggestions for how to manage these business and ethical risks that are associated with the ever-changing world of social networking.
Plan Support Agreements/Pre-Arranged Cases
This panel will discuss a variety of issues surrounding the use of plan-support agreements, including their structure, goals and benefits, their impact on non-signatories, disclosure and solicitation issues, lessons learned from recent cases (Innkeepers and Indianapolis Downs), and the applicability of plan-support agreements in middle-market cases.
Preferences for Dummies
The rules regarding recovery of preferential transfers and available defenses can vary from court to court and circuit to circuit. This panel will provide financial advisors with what they need to know to understand the current state of the law on preference recoveries and will provide practical advice to enable financial professionals to conduct their own preference analyses.
Mock Hearing: Confirmation Issues
Two litigants will argue plan confirmation issues before a panel of three judges. These issues may include treatment of make-whole premiums, cure and reinstatement to avoid payment of default interest, plan releases and exculpation, whether multiple debtors must each satisfy § 1129 requirements in a nonsubstantively consolidated plan, plan settlements, post-petition lock-up agreements, the dischargeability of unknown claims, death traps and gifting.
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