Opening Session: A Fireside Chat on the Future of Health Care Investing and Innovation
Featuring an investor from Frist Cressey Ventures, a partner at Heritage Group and a partner at Cressey & Co.
Procedural, Practical and Economic Efficiencies: Rules and Rule Changes to Reflect Current Realities and Potential Ethical Landmines
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.
Consumer: Chapter 13 Stressors: Appreciation, Inflation, Budgets and Plan Length
A judge, chapter 13 trustee and bankruptcy attorney will discuss how to help chapter 13 debtors succeed in chapter 13 despite increasing asset values, increased loan balances and increased expenses. This panel will delve into such issues as creating feasible plans with debtors’ ever-tighter budgets, instilling flexibility in the bankruptcy system, and dealing with asset appreciation. The panelists also will discuss options for cases that are running long in light of the Kinney decision, along with other issues that can arise.
Commercial: Boardroom Issues When Considering the "Texas Two-Step" and Proposing Third-Party Releases in a Bankruptcy Plan
Sponsored by Holland & Knight LLP
Ethics Challenges of Today
This session will focus on several of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, including 1.2 (Scope of Representation and Allocation of Authority Between Client and Lawyer), 1.4 (Communications), 1.6 (Confidentiality of Info.), 1.7 (Conflict of Interest: Current Clients), 1.18 (Duties to Prospective Clients), 3.3 (Candor to Tribunal), 3.4 (Fairness to Opposing Party and Counsel) and 7.3 (Solicitation of Clients). The panelists will also discuss many current ethical challenges, including ethical issues in subchapter V, future claimants' representative (FCR) standards, remote proceedings and witness testimony, and client authority.
ABI-Live: A Closer Look at the Dutch WHOA and English RP, Part II: Flexible Restructuring
Sponsored by ABI & INSOL
Following up on Part I, hosted by ABI, INSOL and the international committee of the Dutch Restructuring Association, this webinar will discuss the content of relevant restructuring plans under U.S. chapter 11, the English Scheme processes and the Dutch Scheme, with a focus on (the relevance of) valuation reports. The panelists also will discuss the particularities of the content of the relevant restructuring plans for their respective jurisdictions.