Finance and Banking

Understanding and calculating income can be challenging when it isn't consistent. This panel will explore strategies for assessing income for individuals with variable earnings, including seasonal employees, gig workers, self-employed individuals, and those receiving overtime or bonuses. The panelists also will discuss best practices, tools and policy considerations to ensure accurate and fair income determination in complex financial situations.

This panel discusses the history and evolution of liability-management transactions, including uptiers, drop-downs and double-dips, while providing insights from company, lender and creditor perspectives. The panelists also discuss recent developments and trends following the Serta and Mitel decisions, as well as their perspectives on how these types of transactions will be utilized going forward — and whether they are tools for success or invitations for trouble.

This panel will analyze recent sovereign debt restructurings in Argentina, El Salvador and other nations, and will explore how governments leverage infrastructure and sovereign wealth funds to address financial crises.

This panel provides an overview of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) financing and the role of special servicers in a distressed context. The panelists also provide recent insights into the CMBS market and practitioner trends from the panelists’ viewpoints.

This panel, presented from the perspectives of a lender, attorney and investor, discusses how guarantees have changed over time, including their value, regulatory needs and more.

Hosted by Financial Advisors and Investment Banking & Unsecured Trade Creditors Committees This panel will discuss the strategic use of valuation evidence throughout the life of a chapter 11 case, from financing and sale process to confirmation and fraudulent conveyance/other litigation.

This panel will explore the growth of private credit as an established asset class, as well as trends in private credit restructurings. The panelists will explain the private credit market generally, key differences between direct lending and the broadly syndicated market, and the relationship between private credit and private equity. The panelists also will highlight private credit restructuring trends, including the factors that drive success for an out-of-court restructuring, and will spotlight some tools in the private credit restructuring toolbox.