Illinois State Approved Sessions

The panel will address the pros and cons of a 363 sale, essential provisions to include in your bidding procedures and hot topics in 363 sales including credit bidding, reopening an auction, consigned goods, sale of customer information and successor liability.

This panel will cover the case timeline including notable appeals and decisions.

“Proceed” With Caution: Navigating 11 U.S.C. § 552’s effect on prepetition security interests in proceeds of various assets

This panel discussion will concentrate on issues commonly encountered when a closely held business and its individual owners and related businesses have financial problems, including regarding application of the absolute priority rule/new value exception to individual chapter 11 bankruptcies, conflicts, corporate governance, substantive/procedural consolidation and compensation issues

This panel will discuss special problems in ag-based DIP financing and cash collateral use and dealing with tax claims and pre-petition sales.

Avoiding being sued along with or in lieu of your client and avoiding ethical violations and malpractice.

This panel will feature a roundtable discussion with bankruptcy judges from the Ninth Circuit and across the country. The judges will share their thoughts and perspectives, as well as take questions from the audience, on topics of current interest in both business and consumer cases.

This panel will address current ethical topics relating to attorney and client conduct in the context of out-of-court and bankruptcy restructurings.

The existence of multiple bondholders can impose uncertainty and gamesmanship in a contest for economic gain from distressed corporate situations. The paper that they hold rarely tells the whole story; bondholders may have competing investments, undisclosed hedges and varying purchase price discounts that make it impossible to determine their true position. This panel will explore issues related to bondholder-led restructurings and takeovers, including the operation of ad hoc committees, the role of indenture trustees, conflicts, disclosures, subordination and deal structures.