Turning Lead into Gold: Mastering the New Guidelines, Conflict and Employment Issues for Estate Professionals
This panel will discuss the qualification and disqualification of the debtor in possession’s professionals and conflicts counsel.
Rock Drills and Chipping Hammers: Cutting Through the Jurisdictional Challenges of Stern v. Marshall
This panel will discuss all decisions interpreting Stern v Marshall.
Boom or Bust: “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow” and Other Consequences of Being Avoided
This panel will discuss the meaning of “reasonably equivalent value” and recent cases involving interest involving fraudulent transfers.
Finding the Silver Mining in Unexpected Places: Intellectual Property and Bankruptcy
This panel will discuss an overview of intellectual property, the automatic stay and the assumption and rejection of IP licenses.
Extracting Uranium from Sandstone: Hot Topics Uncovered
The panel will discuss the “must know cases of all time”, judicial estoppels, equitable mootness, Barton doctrine, indubitable equivalence, finality, lien stripping, absolute priority rule, TOUSA and much more.
Into the Depths of the Coal Mines: Over, Under, Sideways, Through—Any Way to Obtain a Confirmation Order and Hang Onto It on Appeal
The panel will discuss in depth an operating manual for Chapter 11 and a Chapter 11 Plan checklist.
The Open-Pit Copper Mine: Bringing Value to the Surface—Effectively Trying Contested Matters
The key elements to trying contested matters are planning, writing effective pleadings, knowing rules of evidence, knowing when to use expert testimony and having a strong oral argument. The techniques, among others, are discussed in this panel.
ABI-Live: Examiners and Select Plan Confirmation Issues; presented by ABI Young and New Members Committee
A panel discussion of recent opinions, including In re Dynegy Holdings, Tribune and Heritage Highgate Inc., and their effect on examiner and plan confirmation issues. Issues to be discussed include: Examiner Issues including when directors and officers may be liable for restructuring, made especially relevant in In re Dynegy Holdings, and the Examiner's Report issued on March 9, 2012. Other cases to be discussed include Lyondell Chemical Co., Washington Mutual, Lehman Brothers. Select Plan Confirmation Issues including: a. Competing plans, noteholder classification, enforceability of inter-creditor agreements, made relevant in Tribune. b. Elimination of junior liens and valuation issues at plan confirmation, made relevant by the Third Circuit’s recent decision in Heritage Highgate Inc. Participants: Richard J. Corbi, Moderator Lowenstein Sandler PC; New York Eric D. Winston Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP; Los Angeles David M. LeMay Chadbourne & Parke LLP; New York Michael J. Viscount Fox Rothschild LLP; Atlantic City, N.J. W. Joshua Brant Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP; New York
Means Test: Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 Form B22 Analysis
Means Test: Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 Form B22 Analysis This panel will discuss recent developments in means test issues, including what constitutes current monthly income, defining household size, secured payments on collateral to be surrendered, and disposable monthly income and applicable commitment period for chapter 13 debtors.