Alabama State Approved Sessions

This is the first in a series of webinars that will cover key jurisdictions around the globe, focusing on developments you and your clients need to consider when thinking about bankruptcy-type proceedings in foreign jurisdictions. What you don’t know may hurt your clients, and you can’t just assume that the same rules apply as in the United States. For this first webinar, the panelists will be examining the situation in France, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands.

The Supreme Court on Aug. 10 granted an emergency application for a stay and granted certiorari in the case of Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P. The Court will consider whether the Bankruptcy Code authorizes a court to approve, as part of a plan of reorganization under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, a release that extinguishes claims held by nondebtors against nondebtor third parties without the claimants’ consent. The case is scheduled to be argued in the December 2023 argument session. Hear experts on both sides of the issue as they prognosticate on how the use of third-party releases may unfold before the Supreme Court.

This session will focus on conflict issues, getting retained and paid, and § 327/disclosure issues.

This panel will discuss eligibility issues and strategies related to chapters 11 and 15, filing in other jurisdictions, and cases such as Modern Land, Global Cord Blood and Comair Ltd.

This panel of leading Supreme Court practitioners will discuss leading cases and different ways of viewing specific problems in bankruptcy vs. appellate courts.

This session will cover recent approaches to sales, recent trends in sale cases, the roles of the various constituents in sale cases, biopharmaceutical sales, lease issues and much more.

This session will cover several confirmation hot topics, including the allowance of mass tort issues, equity-linked DIP facilities, Purdue and third-party releases, exclusivity, mootness, good faith and other confirmation issues.

Law firms, law schools and even courts are not free from bias — the types of bias that you may be aware of, such as race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity and disability, but also some types of bias that you might never have focused on. This panel discusses how to identify and work toward eliminating these biases.

This panel will discuss pre-bankruptcy planning in the wake of In re LTL Management. What must you do? What may you do? What are the limits?

This panel will dive into the intersection of cryptocurrency and bankruptcy to demystify and identify the key bankruptcy issues that arise in cryptocurrency cases. Several recent notable case decisions and issues will be discussed, including Celsius Network LLC, Voyager Digital Holdings Inc., Cred Inc. and FTX Trading Ltd. The panelists also will explore the practical impact of crypto issues on everyday bankruptcy practice, including determining the ownership of assets, funding the administrative expenses during the case, devising a plan of reorganization that offers the issuance of new stock and a new token as part of the plan treatment, the problem with liquidation of crypto assets, and the positions that governmental agencies are taking in certain cases.