Georgia State Approved Sessions

This session will focus on challenges and solutions in specific industries heavily impacted by insolvency in Latin America, such as real estate, construction and telecommunications.

This panel explores how structured financing, bankruptcy-remote structures and DIP mechanisms adapt to Latin American markets. The panelists discuss challenges in creating lender confidence and ensuring enforceable collateral.

This panel will examine the key differences among chapter 11 in the U.S., U.K. schemes of arrangement, the Spanish Restructuring Plan and Latin American insolvency regimes. The panelists will highlight how these frameworks address cross-border challenges, creditor protections and restructuring strategies.

This panel discusses ethical concerns relating to employing professionals in bankruptcy matters, including disclosure obligations under ethics rules, the Bankruptcy Code and U.S. Trustee guidelines.

This panel focuses on emerging tools that can be used in auctions and sale processes, including the use of social media and other technology.

This panel provides an in-depth, dynamic discussion on (1) forensic analyses employed to identify and untangle fraud and maximize recoveries; (2) standing to bring certain claims in fraud cases; (3) claims often pursued in Ponzi and other fraud cases, including aiding and abetting fraud, aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty, and conspiracy; (4) the Ponzi scheme presumption, clawback and defenses; and (5) in pari delicto and its applicability, along with other potential defenses. The panelists highlight and address recent case law developments in fraud cases and their impact on the various constituencies involved.

This panel presents a pragmatic discussion on the varying liens that intrude upon debtors’ lives, and the array of bankruptcy-centric issues and tools that can be effectively utilized to confront those liens.