Finance and Banking

There has been an increasing trend toward using creative structures to transact around limitations in debt documents in order to raise debt, sell assets and/or distribute value to certain stakeholders, including transferring assets to unrestricted subsidiaries, sale/leaseback transactions and FILO loan structures. Take a look into the resulting litigation surrounding these transactions (e.g., Windstream, iHeart, J.Crew) and discuss how the credit default swap market is affecting financing structures.

Ethical considerations in the preparation and presentation of financial consultants as expert witnesses and other ethics hot topics including recent developments in disclosure requirements and civility.

This panel will discuss current trends and recent decisions in cash collateral usage, debtor-in-possession financings and exit financings, including strategies for effectively negotiating such financing arrangements, best practices and addressing common objections.

Join this nationally renowned speaker for an overview of our national economic outlook, along with some possible risk factors that could impact the forecast, and household balance sheets in particular.

With President Trump in the White House and Republicans in control of both chambers of Congress, dramatic shifts may be coming to the insolvency industry. In this presentation, we will examine the potential impact of executive orders, legislative action, and other policy developments – including tax reform – that could affect insolvency practitioners.

A panel of judges, academics and Supreme Court practitioners will lead a discussion regarding the 2016-17 Supreme Court decisions of note for insolvency practitioners, as well as the high court’s most impactful, interesting or problematic decisions on bankruptcy practice to date. Amendments to Rule 37(e) (in effect since December 2015), as well as courts’ and litigants’ experiences with amended Rule 37(e), will also be discussed.

Presented by the Business Reorganization and Financial Advisors & Investment Banking Committees

Every reorganized debtor’s chapter 11 confirmation order has a § 1129(a)(11) finding that confirmation is not likely to be followed by the liquidation or further need of financial reorganization of the reorganized debtor. Nevertheless, it is common to see chapter 22s and chapter 33s in bankruptcy courts. This panel of leading financial advisors and industry experts are on the front lines of successful and not-so-successful restructurings. They will also discuss the myriad reasons that chapter 22s and chapter 33s occur and the lessons learned from those cases.