Business

In today’s marketplace, more and more thought is being given to pursuing state law remedies rather than commencing chapter 11 cases. This is especially true in the middle market. This panel will discuss the financial professional’s role and obligations in out-of-court restructuring solutions, including compositions, foreclosures, assignments for the benefit of creditors and asset sales.

A panel of younger lawyers/financial professionals will talk about the issues and challenges of working for senior lawyers and suggest ways to improve the working relationship between senior and junior lawyers.

This panel will discuss a variety of issues arising due to the explosion of social media communications. Topics will include property rights, evidence, spoliation, ethics and trustee investigation duties.

A panel of participants in ABI’s Civility Task Force will discuss the work of the task force in an interactive program designed to further the conversation about civility in our profession.

Individual chapter 11 cases continue to present practitioners with a variety of complex and perplexing issues. This panel will discuss navigating through an individual chapter 11 case from the perspective of both the debtor and its creditors.

"As the U.S. Trustee guidelines for large chapter 11 cases are nearing their six-month anniversary, this panel will discuss how the guidelines have been implemented, what reception they have received from the courts and whether they have changed the way large chapter 11 cases are administered."

This panel will explore the tension between the fundamental tenets of disclosure and due process in bankruptcy cases and the increasing trend toward confidentiality, whether legitimate or not.

Two litigants will argue before a judge panel whether an intellectual property license is executory and assignable. And if it is not assignable, and for business reasons the debtor decides to reject the license agreement, what amounts to rejection of that license agreement and what rights, if any, the licensee has if a rejection occurs.

Section 363 transactions have a dominating presence in today’s chapter 11 practice. This panel will focus on the nuts and bolts of the asset-purchase agreement and related ancillary documents, including sale procedures orders, sale orders and other sale-related pleadings.