Retail

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

Are lenders finding strategies to avoid the Code’s landlord protections? This panel will explore whether a debtor’s obligation to timely perform is being honored, rejection/assumption rules modified in DIP orders, use of nunc pro tunc rejection to minimize claims, and other issues in today’s retail cases.

The panel will discuss GOB and consignment issues, consumer privacy issues and WARN Act issues and will address the following question: Does reorganization exist for middle-market retailers?

How are retail bankruptcies conducted today vs. 10+ years ago? How are future retail bankruptcies likely to look? What are the macro trends in retail, and what are the consequences of traditional brick-and-mortar retail? What will be the dominant types(s) of retail platform(s), and who will be buying or investing in retail assets? This session will cover IP and other technology issues (valuation, liens on IP), lease issues, privacy issues, credit cards and gift cards.

This panel will discuss a variety of issues that arise in connection with a distressed retailer, including GOB sales, landlord issues and vendor issues.

Big and Little Boxes: The Ins and Outs of Retail Restructuring

This panel will present a roundtable discussion.

Did BAPCPA Put Retail Bankruptcy Out of Business?

Nothing Is Impossible: The Complex Requirements and Ethical Duties of Representing Chapter 11 and/or Chapter 13 Consumer Debtors

Professional Development Track: The End Game and How to Get There Utilizing a case-study approach, this panel will provide a primer for young practitioners on the goals, motivations and incentives that key constituents in a chapter 11 case have, and the techniques and strategies used to achieve such goals.