Chapter 7 Issues and Hot Topics
This panel will review important exemption cases post Law v. Siegel as well as membership interests in bankruptcies, wage garnishment preference claims and case law developments post Husky.
Nuts & Bolts Survey of Avoidance Issues in Bankruptcy
This panel will discuss avoidance actions, defenses to preference actions and review sixth and seventh circuit cases in relation to each.
Chapter 11 Exit Strategies
How to keep your equity when those about you are losing theirs (and blaming it on you).
Health Care Insolvency
This panel of health care experts will discuss current topics in health care insolvency focusing on the key issues and areas that will impact cases in 2017 and 2018
Energy Case Studies
This panel will provide an overview of the oil and gas industry, including a cash flow framework, ownerships and interests and chapter 11 considerations in energy bankruptcies.
Trusts and Other Interests
The panel will explore various express and implied trust interests and the issues they raise in bankruptcy, from what becomes property of the estate to exemption and avoidance issues, including under Bankruptcy Code Section 548(e) directed at domestic asset protection and other self-settled trusts.
Chapter 13 Potpourri
This panel will discuss the plan effective date, rule amendments and plan confirmations.
363 Sales
The panel will address the pros and cons of a 363 sale, essential provisions to include in your bidding procedures and hot topics in 363 sales including credit bidding, reopening an auction, consigned goods, sale of customer information and successor liability.
Caesars Entertainment Operating Co.
This panel will cover the case timeline including notable appeals and decisions.
Article 9: UCC Security Interests in Proceeds of Collateral
“Proceed” With Caution: Navigating 11 U.S.C. § 552’s effect on prepetition
security interests in proceeds of various assets