2023

This panel will discuss eligibility issues and strategies related to chapters 11 and 15, filing in other jurisdictions, and cases such as Modern Land, Global Cord Blood and Comair Ltd.

This panel of leading Supreme Court practitioners will discuss leading cases and different ways of viewing specific problems in bankruptcy vs. appellate courts.

This session will discuss the broader policy debate on the usefulness, functionality and policy issues of examiners and trustees in chapter 11. ➤ Bankruptcy examiners drive up the cost of the bankruptcy process and generally do not deliver benefits that justify their expense and distraction. ➤ Bankruptcy examiners play an important role in ensuring the integrity of the bankruptcy process and should be appointed more regularly. ➤ Typically, it should be the role of an official committee, rather than an examiner, to investigate estate causes of action in circumstances that implicate the debtor’s insiders such that the debtor is conflicted.

This session will cover recent approaches to sales, recent trends in sale cases, the roles of the various constituents in sale cases, biopharmaceutical sales, lease issues and much more.

This session will cover several confirmation hot topics, including the allowance of mass tort issues, equity-linked DIP facilities, Purdue and third-party releases, exclusivity, mootness, good faith and other confirmation issues.

Hosted by ABI's Business Reorganization Committee This panel of experts will discuss emerging trends from recent restructurings and bankruptcies in the health care industry, with a special focus on hospitals and biotechnology companies.

Law firms, law schools and even courts are not free from bias — the types of bias that you may be aware of, such as race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity and disability, but also some types of bias that you might never have focused on. This panel discusses how to identify and work toward eliminating these biases.

This panel will discuss pre-bankruptcy planning in the wake of In re LTL Management. What must you do? What may you do? What are the limits?

This panel will dive into the intersection of cryptocurrency and bankruptcy to demystify and identify the key bankruptcy issues that arise in cryptocurrency cases. Several recent notable case decisions and issues will be discussed, including Celsius Network LLC, Voyager Digital Holdings Inc., Cred Inc. and FTX Trading Ltd. The panelists also will explore the practical impact of crypto issues on everyday bankruptcy practice, including determining the ownership of assets, funding the administrative expenses during the case, devising a plan of reorganization that offers the issuance of new stock and a new token as part of the plan treatment, the problem with liquidation of crypto assets, and the positions that governmental agencies are taking in certain cases.