Vermont State Approved Sessions

This panel will provide an analysis of Mexico’s economic outlook under the administration of President-Elect Sheinbaum, and will discuss various industries, opportunities and potential distress in relation to U.S. and Mexico cross-border policies.

This panel will describe various Mexican law security devices and how they operate, explore their implications for bondholders and other creditors of a debtor, and discuss some of the enforcement issues that have arisen in both bankruptcy and nonbankruptcy contexts.

This panel will discuss pending and recently decided Supreme Court cases.

This panel will discuss asset sales as an alternative restructuring solution in Mexico and other jurisdictions. The panelists will explore managing a restructuring under different cash-flow restraints, and how to look for the right partner/investor.

This session will cover sub rosa plan issues, third-party releases, developments in examiner appointments, de-SPAC bankruptcies and double-dip financing structures.

This panel will discuss situations in which valuation is particularly challenging based on the type of asset, the absence of market or comparable valuation data, limitations on available information for the valuation, and other constraints. We will cover the valuation of intellectual property assets, financial assets (including royalties and other revenue streams), digital and electronic assets (including virtual currency, software code, social media assets and platforms), and privately held equity interests, among other asset categories in different sectors, such as emerging restructuring sectors like life sciences. We will also discuss valuation contexts (transaction diligence and structuring, financing and M&A transaction consummation, and distressed situations and insolvency proceedings), focusing on both the practical challenges and evidentiary support for valuation determinations in those contexts. We also will provide examples of situations in which challenging valuations have served as keystones to transactional successes.

This panel will compare and contrast the SPAC craze of 2020-21 to see where we are now and what lies ahead.

For nearly 100 years, we have not experienced a shock to the economy where large numbers of industries exhibited disastrous declines in revenues resulting from a pandemic. Frankly, none of us were equipped with readily available valuation frameworks to handle such shocking changes in cash-flow projections, discount rates, the ‘appropriate’ use of comparable companies and the relevant transactions to be used in the M&A comparable method. This panel discussion will present the main valuation parameters that have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated legal and experts’ battles, mostly during and post-pandemic.