Unitranche Credit Facilities, Agreements Among Lenders, and Related Bankruptcy Considerations
This panel will discuss the rise of unitranche credit facilities, the differences between unitranche credit facilities and more traditional debt structures, and the appeal of a unitranche structure to borrowers, sponsors and lenders. The panel will also discuss bankruptcy-related considerations when negotiating an Agreement Among Lenders (the intercreditor agreement governing the respective rights of lenders in a unitranche credit facility), as well as recent intercreditor litigation.
Back-to-Back Bankruptcies
This panel will discuss issues inherent when a client files multiple bankruptcies, including dismissal, discharge, automatic stay, lien-stripping, chapter 20, married debtors, co-debtors and more.
Business Development: How to Win Friends and Influence People
This panel will discuss how young professionals can grow their practices, maintain contacts, improve their reputations and bring in business.
Don’t Just Go Through the Motions: Effective Motions Practice in Bankruptcy Court and Trial Advocacy Tips
This session will discuss motions to dismiss and motions for summary judgment, plus discovery and evidentiary motions, and tips on how to use motions practice to your advantage in adversary proceedings and contested matters.
Case Law Update: Business and Consumer Law Developments
This panel will present a lively discussion of key issues decided in business and consumer bankruptcy cases throughout the country over the past year.
Supreme Court Round-Up
Oyez, oyez, oyez, all attendees are admonished to draw near and give their undivided attention to this panel as it delivers the most recent and updated analyses on this term’s U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
Unshackled: Musings of Retired Bankruptcy Judges
In retirement, the shackles of judgeships are removed. This panel of retired bankruptcy judges can and will speak freely of their experiences both on and off the bench during their respective tenures, along with their unique analyses and perspectives on current bankruptcy practice.
Student Loans
This panel will discuss the discharging of student loan debts, bankruptcy trustees and the avoidance of tuition payments, undue hardship and real life applications of these issues.
Chapter 7 Issues and Hot Topics
This panel will review important exemption cases post Law v. Siegel as well as membership interests in bankruptcies, wage garnishment preference claims and case law developments post Husky.