New Jersey State Approved Sessions

This panel will cover deposing, qualifying and examining a financial expert witness regarding their opinions on solvency, reasonably equivalent value and plan feasibility.

Join our panel of expert estate counsel, trustees and insurance counsel as they discuss issues related to standing, safe harbors, in pari delicto and other complications that insurers and defendants use to frustrate the pursuit causes of action by Trustees

This panel will focus on the possible consequences of ASARCO, Wellness, and Bank of America v. Caulkett

In the past few months, we have seen once-prominent Brazilian companies face financial distress as a result of governmental mistakes, political unease, global decline in oil and gas prices and the downturn in the local credit markets. Most importantly, the Petrobras bribery and corruption scandal has had wide-ranging effects on Brazilian companies, from the criminal prosecution of corporate executives to open-ended prohibitions on future contracts with Petrobras and, in some instances, fines millions of reais. Fabio Vassel and Luis DeLucio will discuss how the current Brazilian economic and political landscape is likely to impact Brazilian companies, lenders and investors in the years to come.

This panel will feature a discussion with leading experts in the field of Latin American restructurings about the recent — and not-so-recent — updates to insolvency statutes throughout the region. While some of these new insolvency regimes remain largely untested, others offer both lessons and open questions about the potential for a true convergence of Latin American restructuring laws to other more established and tested jurisdictions. Market experts will discuss the latest developments in Latin American restructurings and offer their insights into the opportunities and challenges facing investors and lenders in the current Latin American economy.

Many companies operating in and around the energy industry have been adversely affected by the recent precipitous drop in the price of oil, a global trend that has exposed vulnerabilities in a number of industry segments and individual companies. The companies, their exposures and the complicated issues raised by their distress span the Americas. This panel will introduce the industry and recent trends, cover the ways that these companies finance themselves and operate, and discuss a number of complex multijurisdictional finance, legal, regulatory and environmental issues that will be significant in these restructurings.

Commission Recommendations on Resolving Court Splits: Coming Soon to a Judicial Opinion Near You ABI's Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11 identified more than 30 splits in case law on important issues. Such a split of authority results in delay, increased litigation costs and above all, uncertainty -- imposing a kind of "ambiguity tax" on the system, as one witness put it in testimony before the Commission. The recommendations contained in the Commission's final report, in many cases, can be implemented by judicial opinion at the bankruptcy court or court of appeals level, without need for action by Congress. This program featuring some of the most experienced and thoughtful judges on the bench today, will assess the Commission recommendations, and identify some that might be effected soon.

This panel will cover the critical relationship between professional responsibility and rules of discovery. The panel will discuss the pitfalls and common mistakes that attorneys make with digital discovery and electronic evidence.

Just what is and is not property of the estate? This panel will present a thorough review of § 541 and its application in real-world situations.