ABI-Live: Filing Your First Individual Chapter 11? Understand the Issues and Confirm Creative Plans
When is an individual Chapter 11 a better fit for your client? Think through an individual Chapter 11 plan and spot critical issues that can lead to success. A panel of experienced individual Chapter 11 practitioners will guide you, step by step, through a successful individual Chapter 11 case, and discuss problematic issues and solutions you can implement in your individual Chapter 11. Topics include: · Creating a budget on your schedules · Calculating your plan · Working with the US Trustee’s office · Tax issues · Application of the absolute priority rule · “Deemed” voting · “Reasonable and necessary” expenses · Addressing secured mortgage debts in the plan
Consumer Bankruptcy Fundamentals
Consumer Bankruptcy Fundamentals
This two-part, 3.0-hour program fully covers the consumer bankruptcy process from counseling the consumer debtor, chapter choice, exemptions, claims, the automatic stay, means testing, dischargeability and debtor education. The faculty includes a Law Professor, a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge and leading practitioners.
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Prof. Lois Lupica, Moderator
Maine Law Foundation Professor of Law
University of Maine School of Law in Portland
Hon. Wendelin I. Lipp
U.S. Bankruptcy Court (D. MD.); Greenbelt, MD
Alexander M. Laughlin
Odin, Feldman & Pittleman, PC; Fairfax, VA
Lisa A. Tracy
Executive Office for U.S. Trustees; Washington, DC
Business Bankruptcy Fundamentals
Business Bankruptcy Fundamentals
This two-part, 3.0-hour program fully covers the procedures and strategies of the typical chapter 11 case from pre-bankruptcy planning through plan confirmation and beyond; DIP financing, executory contracts and leases, sales, workouts, corporate governance, and tax issues are also fully treated. The faculty includes a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge as well as attorney and nonattorney professionals experienced in corporate reorganizations.
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Michael L. Bernstein
Arnold & Porter
Hon. Thomas J. Catliota
U.S. Bankruptcy Court (D. MD.); Greenbelt, MD
Boris Steffen
Gavin/Salmonese LLC
General Bankruptcy Fundamentals
General Bankruptcy Fundamentals (2.5 Hours of CLE where available)
This 2.5 hour program presents a discussion of the who, what and why of a bankruptcy case. Part I (1 hour 30 minutes) explores concepts applicable in all cases, including the automatic stay, property of the estate, claims and priorities, executory contracts and unexpired leases and the discharge are examined. Part II (1 hour) explores the range of the estate's avoiding powers of various transfers such as preferences, fraudulent transfers and unperfected security interests.
This course includes recent SBRA, COVID-19, and CARES Act updates
Add the BUSINESS and CONSUMER Bankruptcy breakout for $100 each
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Prof. Lois Lupica, Moderator
Maine Law Foundation Professor of Law
University of Maine School of Law in Portland
Hon. Wendelin I. Lipp
U.S. Bankruptcy Court (D. MD.); Greenbelt, MD
Alexander M. Laughlin
Odin, Feldman & Pittleman, PC; Fairfax, VA
Lisa A. Tracy
Executive Office for U.S. Trustees; Washington, DC
Ed Flynn
American Bankruptcy Institute; Alexandria, VA
1 hour
3 minutes
33 seconds
Do “Out-of-the-Money” Creditors Have Standing?
Do “Out-of-the-Money” Creditors Have Standing? There are many chapter 11’s filed primarily to sell the collateral for undersecured creditors—meaning that there isn’t any value generated for unsecured creditors or equity. This panel will explore the various issues that result such as basic standing and the appropriateness of forming and maintaining a creditors committee and an equity committee. The panel will also discuss the various arguments put forth to justify a carveout or “gift” for unsecured creditors and the often used “pay-to-play” rule occasionally asserted by out-of-the-money creditor groups. It will also examine ways to identify unencumbered assets early in the case and the possible benefits of keeping them free from post-petition liens granted to DIP Lenders. Lastly, the panel will discuss ways to maximize the Chapter 5 claims and the use of liquidating assets.
Sharing a Piece of the Pie: Gift Plans, Structured Dismissals and Carve-Outs
Sharing a Piece of the Pie: Gift Plans, Structured Dismissals and Carve-Outs Often bankruptcy is the best way for under-secured creditors to optimize collateral recoveries. But the price for bankruptcy relief is that secured creditors must share their recoveries with out-of-the money constituencies. This panel will explore such sharing arrangements in a variety of contexts–carve outs, gift plans and structured dismissals.
Litigating the Cramdown Rate
Litigating the Cramdown Rate “Cram down” requires full payment of secured classes. This, in turn, requires a present value analysis of the dividends secured creditors will receive under the plan. This panel will review what debtors and secured creditors need to show to establish a cramdown rate and the nuts-and-bolts evidentiary issues joined by cramdown litigation.
Stern v. Marshall: One Year Later
Stern v. Marshall: One Year Later In June 2011, the Supreme Court issued its watershed decision in Stern v. Marshall, restricting the scope of bankruptcy court jurisdiction under Article III of the Constitution. Stern has confounded judges, litigants and commentators alike. Although characterized by the Supreme Court as a “narrow” decision, Stern is proving to have widespread implications, the full extent of which remain to be seen as cases work their way through the bankruptcy, district and appellate courts. This panel will survey the contexts in which Stern has posed issues, the decisions construing and applying Stern in the year since it was decided, and the possible legislative responses to the decision.