Illinois State Approved Sessions

Sponsored by the Secured Credit Committee This webinar will delve into issues involving digital accounts, cryptocurrency and NFTs, including how to get secured and perfected, how to liquidate, and bankruptcy-specific considerations. The panelists also will discuss UCC Article 12 and its impact on the digital-asset world for secured parties. The presentation will help practitioners better understand the considerations and issues they should be spotting when advising their constituents on dealing with digital assets.

Sponsored by ABI's Real Estate Committee Commercial real estate continues to be a sector to watch as we navigate the post-COVID recovery period, which has thus far featured high inflation, rising interest rates, work-from-home preferences and other changes in consumer behavior. This panel of seasoned real estate attorneys and advisors will provide an update on where things stand across all of the key asset classes, including office, retail, industrial, multi-family and hospitality, as the important summer season winds down, in order to arm practitioners with important insights as we head into 2022's fourth quarter.

This panel will briefly review the current state of third-party releases, then discuss/debate different ways and mechanisms to potentially remedy the issues that have been highlighted by (or that have bothered) various courts around the country.

This panel will identify recent examples of chapter 11 plans confirmed within the Ninth Circuit that contained third-party releases despite longstanding precedent in the Ninth Circuit prohibiting those releases outside of the asbestos context. The panelists also will describe the types of releases confirmed, as well as how the plan proponents were able to include the releases.

Sponsored by the Financial Advisors and Investment Banking Committee Advisors based in Colombia, London, New York and Singapore will share their experiences on how distressed deals are closed, along with their insights and predictions on what the deal market will look like going forward, and how rising costs, inflation, interest rates and volatility in the capital markets globally may impact the deal space. Come join us for this special panel discussion.

Filing a bankruptcy petition is not always a viable option or the best solution. This panel will explore alternative avenues for distressed companies, including receiverships, assignments for the benefit of creditors and Article 9 foreclosures, as well as when a bankruptcy filing is the most effective tool. Learn what factors should be considered in evaluating the various options and what the benefits and drawbacks of each alternative are.

This panel will present a discussion of bankruptcy rules and procedures that work and don’t work from a practical perspective, as well as reflections on how technology impacts current practice.

Unsecured creditors (and official creditor committees) may appear hopelessly “out of the money” at the beginning of a case, but how may they most effectively and most responsibly assert their interests throughout the case to win a recovery? This panel addresses this question and more.

This panel will provide an overview and discussion on the most recent bankruptcy decisions and changes to official guidelines and legislation impacting bankruptcy practice today. The case law discussion will cover the most recent bankruptcy opinions from the Supreme Court and Circuit Courts of Appeals as well as Bankruptcy and District Court opinions of note. The panel will provide thorough summaries of these cases and changes to other bankruptcy-specific rules, laws, and regulations as well as discuss the larger implications of these new precedents and changes on current practice and future bankruptcy trends.