ABC Program: Professionalism! Competence! Featuring Judges on Best Practices
Bankruptcy judges sound off on the best (and worst) behavior of our bankruptcy brothers and sisters. Join us in our first ABC-sponsored session!
Your Ethical Duties
This panel focuses on the duties professionals have to protect electronically stored client information, best practices, ethical obligations and business considerations.
Valuations – Art or Science? Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going
This lively session is intended to trace the trends in the application of the technical approaches to business and securities valuations, and to examine the direction the valuation profession is heading in. Are we becoming more of a science or an art, and how will the direction of the profession affect our work and its reliability?
Case Study: Valuing and Restructuring Distressed Companies in the Face of Financial and Operational Headwinds
This lively session traces the trends in the application of the technical approaches to business and securities valuations, and examines the direction the valuation profession is heading in. Are we becoming more of a science or an art, and how will the direction of the profession affect our work and its reliability?
VALCON Talks: “What I’d Change About the Corporate Bankruptcy System”
Based on the incredibly popular “TED Talks” format, VALCON Talks will give four seasoned experts the opportunity to discuss changes they would make to the corporate bankruptcy system. If you consider yourself a bankruptcy guru or just want to be one, you won’t want to miss this program!
Energy Restructuring: Looking Forward and Backward
Technology has brought about radical changes in the energy industry, including the creation of new E&P companies, new cost structures and “just-in-time” revenue opportunities, and challenges to all companies in the production-to-consumer stream, including servicing and mid-stream. These changes, and the uncertainty regarding pricing and the evolution of new, unconventional competition, have led to a number of restructurings during the last cycle, as well as uncertainty on the appropriate capital structure and status for the industry going forward. As we transition from the last energy restructuring cycle of 2015-17, what is our takeaway from the key valuation and other issues that were faced? Does the industry require different thinking regarding the relative amounts of debt versus equity? What is the state of energy dealmaking and capital markets? Can we expect further industry restructuring and consolidation? What is the future of unconventional energy sources and traditional offshore sources? Our energy experts will examine these and other issues from a variety of different perspectives, including deal-making, judicial, legal, operations and financial.
Bridging the Gap: Rights Offerings and Other Paths to Exit Bankruptcy
This panel will discuss the use of rights offerings as a bridge to exiting bankruptcy for reorganizing debtors. The panelists will focus on evolving market trends and hot-button issues arising in recent cases, such as backstop participation and related fees, treatment of nonparticipants, and questions regarding shifting values. We will also touch on other financing alternatives that reorganizing entities may consider in bridging the gap to exit.
Issues in Retail Valuations
Hot areas breed hot issues. On this panel, the panelists will cover a variety of hot topics in retail today, including (1) dividend recapitalizations, (2) asset-stripping and dropdown financing, and (3) approaches to valuing intellectual property. This diverse panel, representing a cross-section of the restructuring industry, will discuss a variety of in-court and out-of-court situations.