Panel 5: Plan Negotiations
The debtor’s professional advisory team will describe how the plan of reorganization ultimately comes out after negotiations.
Panel 4: Resolutions
Stakeholders will discuss how fraudulent-transfer issues and their potential resolutions affect their strategies.
Panel 2: The Stakeholders
Panelists representing the stakeholders in the case (secured creditors, bondholders, trade, equity) will discuss their strategies to increase their constituents’ respective pieces of the pie.
Panel 1: Debtor’s Reorganization Plan
A team of ABI “40 Under 40” honorees, in the role of the debtor’s professional advisory team, will present the debtor’s value-maximizing plan of reorganization.
Advanced DIP Topics
This panel will present a discussion of recent nonconsensual DIP financings, and take a look at some novel provisions that are becoming more common in DIP orders. The panelists will explore the current status of priming DIP financings/nonconsensual uses of cash collateral, and recent developments in DIP-financing orders, including limitations on the challenge period, large roll-ups, equity participations and "interim order creep."
The “Restructuring Director”: A Critique and Response
Over the last decade, the “restructuring director” has emerged as a key new player in corporate restructurings. This panel will review the rise of the restructuring director, the role they play in restructurings, and the benefits they bring — along with the controversies they cause.
Recent Confirmation Issues
This panel will provide a review of recent confirmation issues, including reinstatement in a rising-interest-rate environment, cramdown and Till in a rising-interest-rate environment, the entitlement to or apportionment of the increased value of collateral, new versions of pre-disclosure-statement plan-commitment agreements, make-whole obligations as unmatured interest, solvent debtors and creditors’ entitlement to post-petition interest, and the evolution of equitable mootness.
End of the Texas Two-Step? Impressions on LTL and Aero
This panel will examine the recent rise and possible fall of the Texas Two-Step, with a focus on the recent LTL and Aero decisions, as well as a discussion on good faith as a necessary aspect of a chapter 11 filing.
Current Events with Bill Rochelle (and Guests!)
ABI Editor-at-Large Bill Rochelle will lead a discussion with regional bankruptcy judges on insolvency's most talked-about current events and controversial opinions.