Alaska State Approved Sessions

This panel will explore the basics of blockchain — which is quickly becoming a major sector of the insolvency world — and its inevitable impact on bankruptcy cases.

This panel of experts will discuss and analyze asset-recovery issues in cross-border insolvency situations.

This session will walk attendees through various cybersecurity issues, focusing on the implications for and obligations of attorneys representing companies in chapter 11 when a security incident/data-privacy event occurs.

Join ABI Editor-at-Large Bill Rochelle as he hosts a panel of bankruptcy judges to discuss circuit splits and hot topics on important bankruptcy issues. Back again from the Winter Leadership Conference, this attendee-favorite panel will be presented in a fun game show format, where judges will vote to resolve the issues before they reach the Supreme Court.

The panelists will cover issues common to § 363 sale processes that can help or harm debtors, creditors, bidders and other parties in interest, including notice, whether covenants really run with the land (§ 363(f)), selling overencumbered property, structured dismissals after Jevic, and venue considerations and recent developments.

This panel will focus on issues arising in larger chapter 11 cases, including third-party releases and Plan Support Agreements.

Sponsored by ABI's Commercial and Regulatory Law Committee This panel of experts will discuss the implications for and obligations of attorneys representing companies in chapter 11 when a security incident/data privacy event happens.

Sponsored by ABI's Financial Advisors and Investment Banking Committee Although the COVID-19 emergency has battered many industries, it did not mark the beginning of what is currently besieging colleges and universities; issues have been brewing beneath the surface of these proud institutions for a long time. The headwinds of shrinking enrollment, increased competiton and downward pressures on tuition are causing many institutions in higher education to address their economic viability. Increasing costs and decreasing revenues are a reciepe for disaster in any business, and colleges and universities are not immune to such challenges, which are further exacerbated by regulatory obligations and academic culture, especally when it involves restructuting smaller institutions. Learn first-hand from experts in the field how colleges and universities can best be restructured.

This panel will examine what's involved in getting a subchapter V case across the finish line, starting with best practices for debtors as attorneys position their clients to confirm their plans. The panelists will specifically explore putting together projections and liquidation analyses, the weapons creditors have in their arsenal (including the § 1111(b) election), and the role of subchapter V trustees.

The panel will address the legal framework by which bankruptcy courts and federal district courts are authorized to hold parties or attorneys in contempt of court. The discussion will focus on the authority of the bankruptcy court, as an Article I tribunal, to enforce the Bankruptcy Code and its orders through civil contempt powers and the penalties associated with those powers. The panel will also cover applicable law and procedure in relation to seeking criminal contempt in the federal district court.