2022

This panel will delve into issues involving digital accounts, cryptocurrency and NFTs, including how to getsecured and perfected, how to liquidate, and bankruptcy-specific considerations. The panelists also willdiscuss UCC Article 12 and its impact on the digital-asset world for secured parties, and help practitionersbetter understand the considerations and issues they should be spotting when advising their constituents ondealing with digital assets.

This panel of experts will discuss the latest trends in the wind, coal, and oil and gas industries that havedominated the headlines, with special emphasis on new regulatory issues and changes in the energy market.

Over the last several years, an increasing number of states, including New York, have adopted the UniformVoidable Transactions Act (UVTA), the latest update to the Uniform Voidable Transfer Act. The UVTA made anumber of minor changes and updates to the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act (UFTA), including changingthe name. What changes were significant? What opportunities to fix problems/vagaries in the UFTA did thedrafters miss? What amendments should the UVTA drafters consider?

This panel will provide an overview of different types of equipment and common valuation methods forthem, various techniques and best practices for marketing equipment, and unique bankruptcy issues relatedto equipment.

Heading into the pandemic, health care was a hot sector in the restructuring landscape. Economic stimulusfunding and a need for health care facilities to address the COVID-19 pandemic led to a slowdown inrestructuring in the sector. However, stimulus funds are now drying up, and health care organizations thatwere struggling operationally or financially heading into the pandemic are facing even more challenges. Thispanel will discuss the nuances of a health care bankruptcies, providing insight into what operators,attorneys, financial advisors, investment bankers and other stakeholders should consider as they prepare totake a health care organization through the bankruptcy process.

This panel will discuss the § 1111(b) election in modern times. It’s not the rule against perpetuities, but it’salso not as simple as your basic loan default. Do you know how to analyze whether making the electionmakes sense? Perhaps more importantly, do you know how to counsel your client through the process?