2023

This session will delve into what is happening at the circuit level regarding jurisdiction and standing, and how both bankruptcy practitioners and judges could be affected — regardless of what types of cases they typically see.

This panel will compare and contrast the roles of chapter 11 trustees, chapter 7 trustees, CROs and independent directors when a case is fraudulent.

This panel focuses on material tax issues that every bankruptcy attorney should know that can impact both estate administration and bankruptcy plans. The panelists highlight issues that should be considered when a company is considering filing for bankruptcy or is in bankruptcy, such as tax attribute planning and preservation, management of COD income in connection with liability management transactions, “significant modification” of debt and how to minimize consequences, the considerations if the debtor is a partnership or a corporation, associated state tax issues, and key tax return compliance implications.

This panel will explore industry trends and commonalities between the parallel issues of failing health care systems and debtors bankrupted by medical debt. The panelists will discuss and debate what could happen when these two debtor groups overwhelm the bankruptcy system, the challenges that health care debtors, consumer debtors and insurance payors face today, and how practitioners across various insolvency disciplines involved in these industries can plan for the future with these trends on the horizon.

This panel will discuss the following issues regarding crypto, distinguishing customer property from property of the estate, understanding crypto valuation issues, distribution options in crypto cases, M&A risks and pitfalls, effectively using social media to communicate with a large customer base, juggling cash and crypto management, and debtor-on-debtor violence.

This session will discuss issues with debtors who own or have fractional interests in LLCs, corporations or partnerships, or who are self-employed. The panelists will cover how to determine what constitutes property of the estate; valuing a debtor’s interest in an LLC, corporation or partnership; and administering a debtor's fractional interests.

This panel of economic experts will discuss the effects of inflation, including financing, labor, stock values, and growth vs. recession.

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failed on March 10 following a run on its deposits, representing the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history behind the 2008 failure of Washington Mutual. Prior to its collapse, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based SVB was the 16th-largest bank in the U.S. and was the largest bank by deposits in Silicon Valley. This panel of experts will break down the failure and future of SVB, the FDIC's role in the banking crisis, and the impact its collapse may have on other financial institutions.

This session will focus on the ways in which subchapter V cases progress through to a sale and/or plan, including statutory deadlines for subchapter V cases and how such deadlines do or don’t impact other Code sections, and whether Code deadlines are mandatory or discretionary. Attendees will learn standards and strategies to be considered in subchapter V cases.