West Virginia State Approved Sessions

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.

This panel will cover various proceedings alternative to bankruptcy, with a focus on assignments for the benefit of creditors. The panelists will provide an overview of popular bankruptcy alternatives and discuss their practicalities.

This session is designed to help new and experienced attorneys develop and refine their contract and order drafting skills by examining common drafting conventions and best practices, discussing drafting issues that arise in bankruptcy practice, and sharing tips and strategies for correcting drafting mistakes.

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

This roundtable will provide updates from the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York (and surrounding areas) about court rules and practices, and discuss topics of general interest to the bar.

ABI's Business Reorganization and Commercial and Regulatory Law Committees ERISA/PBGC issues in bankruptcy/reorganization cases always raise interesting and challenging questions. Are you prepared to identify and handle them? Please join us for this special ABI-members-only webinar, during which the speakers will address both single-employer and multi-employer pension funding, termination and withdrawal-liability issues, other PBGC/ERISA-focused bankruptcy issues, and ERISA fiduciary issues that often arise in administering or terminating an ERISA-governed retirement plan in a bankruptcy/reorganization setting.

This panel will provide a lively discussion of valuation, liability management transactions, corporate governance, ethics and the bankruptcy process set against the backdrop of the Casears restructuring and chapter 11 case. The panelists, all of whom were intimately involved in the Caesars bankruptcy as principal, advisor or journalist, will offer their unique insights into this fascinating chapter 11 case and the lessons (legal, practical and ethical) it teaches for restructurings today.

The COVID-19 pandemic, as well as recent political and economic events, have highlighted a number of complicated and hotly debated issues regarding the valuation of airlines in the context of restructurings. This panel will discuss, among other things, how macroeconomic issues are impacting business plans and valuations, the way valuation issues play out in large airline restructurings, and investors’ views on the role that valuation plays in investment decisions and negotiations of restructuring transactions.

This panel will examine the fraudulent transfer (and other) risks associated with a leveraged transaction, including LBOs and dividend recap transactions, and the steps that may be taken to mitigate those risks. The panelists will approach each topic with a 360-degree view, exploring the issues from the perspectives of board members, debt capital providers and equity sponsors/shareholders.