South Carolina State Approved Sessions

This session will provide opportunities for discussion and interaction with an exciting panel of judges from around the country.

Hosted by ABI's Real Estate Committee Commercial real estate continues to be the sector to watch for restructuring professionals, as decreasing property values and increasing interest rates will be colliding with $1.5 trillion of debt maturities over the next four years. This informative program will provide a clear and comprehensive understanding of where the market stands and may be going as we head into the last four months of the year. Where are we in the current economic cycle? How have higher interest rates impacted the commercial real estate market this year, and what will the ramifications be next year? What can asset-class-level fundamentals tell us about commercial real estate trends in 2024? Xander Snyder, senior commercial real estate economist at First American Financial Corporation, will be providing his valuable input on the above questions and more. His research focuses on economic trends impacting commercial real estate, such as demographics, fundraising, investments and commercial lending. He also monitors, analyzes and reports on economic data and surveys related to commercial real estate, and develops models and forecasts to better understand the forces that influence commercial real estate markets."

This panel will discuss current trends in real estate that affect distressed-asset situations. The panelists will first address the state of today's real estate market from the perspectives of real estate investors, lenders and financial advisors, then will dive into current real estate issues in chapter 11 cases.

Don’t miss these roundtables on today’s provocative issues, led by the judges of the Southeast Bankruptcy Workshop.

Now that subchapter V's first three years are in the rearview mirror, this session will pull back the curtain on this latest reorganization tool to discuss what is (or is not) working. Attendees will hear from three practicing subchapter V trustees, a career bankruptcy law clerk, and a bankruptcy judge with an active subchapter V docket to examine what practitioners are doing right, and what they are doing wrong, when representing clients in subchapter V cases.