Free Sessions (no CLE)

This panel will consider the robustness of financial models and valuation techniques in assessing the value of financially distressed businesses vis-à-vis the market for debt and equity securities of such businesses. Market efficiency/accuracy will also be considered, as well as the circumstances that might warrant abandoning the values determined by the market in favor of a model-driven value estimate.

This session will outline methods of developing meaningful and timely revenue and cash flow forecasts for financially distressed businesses, including considerations that management takes into account in developing its forecast, commentary on relevant case law concerning such matters, and factors that could be considered by interested third parties and practitioners regarding the reasonableness of such projections, such as modeling techniques.

This panel will feature a discussion of basic option concepts, debt and equity claims, bankruptcy priorities and corporate governance issues.

This session will take a look at different valuation techniques, including asset approaches, market approaches and income approaches. Concepts such as time value of money, discounted cash flows, determining the discount rate and cost of capital, and terminal value assumptions will be illustrated. Comparable companies and precedent transactions to establish the relative enterprise and equity value of firms will also be examined and discussed.

This session will cover revenue and expense recognition, financial statement analysis, financial ratios, and the calculation and forecasting of a firm’s free cash flow.

This panel will discuss how to examine and cross-examine an expert witness and respond to judges. Through a fact pattern/role-playing approach, the panel will cover issues related to valuation and plan confirmation.

This panel is devoted to four interrelated topics in Ponzi scheme cases, including (1) distribution methodology issues; (2) criminal vs. civil forfeiture; (3) the tension between U.S. and non-U.S. distribution schemes; and (4) additional issues, including collateral source recovery and the ability to assert personal jurisdiction over extraterritorial plaintiffs to enjoin proceedings that, if brought in the U.S., would violate the automatic stay.

Everything that’s hot and not in chapter 13 practice, including mortgage-stripping, proof-of-claim wars, Kagenveama bites the dust, early pay-offs, modification anarchy and more.

Everything that’s hot and not in chapter 13 practice, including mortgage-stripping, proof-of-claim wars, Kagenveama bites the dust, early pay-offs, modification anarchy and more.

This panel will discuss practice tips during the pre-trial discovery period, as well as during the trial itself, related to the handling of evidence and objections thereto; discuss the proper use of post-judgment motions related to reconsideration and requests to amend findings of fact and conclusions of law; explain the appeals process, including motions for stay pending appeal; and explain certain important local rules, as well as updates that have occurred and those that will be coming.