Caveat Emptor: The Purchase and Sale of Debt in Bankruptcy
This panel will discuss the purchase of secured debt and claims, disclosure of obligations, and the Lightsquared and Telecom cases.
Financial Statements: What’s Hiding Beneath the Surface, and Why Does It Matter?
This panel will take a look at financial statement analysis and key ratios, and why they matter in bankruptcy.
Convoluted Pollution: The (Sometimes) Messy Collision of Bankruptcy and Environmental Issues
This panel will discuss Freedom Industries, fracking and other issues.
What’s Yours Might Not Be: Section 541 and Property of the Estate
This panel will cover issues that arise when property of the estate isn’t property of the estate, tax status issues and tax attributes, including NOLs.
Shakedowns vs. The Pursuit of Justice: The Current Landscape of Avoidance Actions
This panel will provide an overview of new uses of cause of action, § 546(e) cases including Lyondell and Tribune, and proposed changes to the UFTA.
The Principles of Compensation: Checking In on the New U.S. Trustee Fee Guidelines
This panel will discuss who can get paid, for what, and why.
Checking In with the Supremes
This panel will review cases from the 2013 and 2014 terms (Bellingham; surcharge case; other bankruptcy cases).
Ethics Issues in Bankruptcy Litigation, Redux: Who’s Suing Whom?
The panel will discuss due diligence requirements before bringing suits, suits or demands made for leverage, asserting claims in excess of estate value, and ethics complaints and litigation advantages.
Acquiring the Assets of a Distressed Company: A Buyer’s Guide to Selecting the Best Sale Process
Potential buyers often have significant leverage over distressed sellers of assets and are able to influence or dictate the nature of the sale process. This panel will examine the considerations that a potential buyer of a distressed company should make when it has the opportunity to choose the appropriate process and venue for pursuing such acquisition. We will outline the pros and cons of Article 9 sales (both public and private), receivership sales, § 363 sales and “loan to own” strategies, including with respect to issues related to successor liability, funding considerations, operational concerns, timing, legal risk and deal certainty.
Not Just Another Infomercial: The Pros and Cons of the Proposed Chapter 13 Plan Form and Rules Changes
This panel will take an objective look at the viability and the purposes of the proposed national plan form and the amendments to the bankruptcy rules related thereto.