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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 Ins and Outs of DIP Financing: Good Money after Bad (How to Make DIP Financing Better)
This panel will address current developments and improvements in DIP financing, including incurring credit in the ordinary course, priming liens, fairness, adequate protection, loan fees, mootness and good faith.
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Business Debate
Resolved: Success fees for financial advisors should be eliminated.
(Sides to be chosen by a coin toss at the beginning of the session.)
Candace C. Carlyon
Shea & Carlyon Ltd.; Las Vegas
Frank A. Merola
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP; Los Angeles
Judicial Debate
Resolved: Claims benefiting from third-party guaranties may be separately classified.
Pro: Hon. Barry Russell
U.S. Bankruptcy Court (C.D. Calif.); Los Angeles
Con: Hon. Eileen W. Hollowell
U.S. Bankruptcy Court (D. Ariz.); Tucson
Consumer Debate
Resolved: Section 523(a)(8) limiting discharge of student loans should be eliminated.
Pro: Kasey Cameron Nye
Mesch, Clark & Rothschild, PC; Tucson, Ariz.
Con: Madeleine C. Wanslee
Gust Rosenfeld, PLC; Phoenix
The Cause and Effect of Municipal Insolvency and the Limits of Chapter 9
This single plenary session will feature a policy-oriented panel discussing the reasons for municipal insolvency nationally, with a particular focus on the New England Region. The panel of highly-experienced government officials, municipal receivers and thought leaders will review and debate the challenges faced by state and local leaders in their efforts to address the financial stress facing many of our cities and towns. Among the issues to be addressed are: the pressures of labor contracts, legacy benefits, and pension and retirement plans on municipal budgets; creditor and bondholder relations; sections of the code that impact these issues; and trends arising from the most recent cases. The panel may also touch on needed Chapter 9 reform. Lawyers, lenders, insolvency specialists, as well as those interested in the future of our cities and towns, will be interested in this program.
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