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Bankruptcy & Restructuring

Recorded on: Mar. 18, 2013

EDWIN SMITH: It's very important that you do the evaluations. We look at those every year to try to determine who to keep on the panel and who to throw off. I'd now like to introduce, as my colleague on this session, June Basden, from Carruthers & Roth in Greensboro. JUNE BASDEN: And that's Greensboro, North Carolina. EDWIN SMITH: There we go. Right. And so we're here to talk about bankruptcy related issues for asset-based lenders. We're going ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

KAREN N. BALLACK: OK, welcome back, everybody, from the break. Our next presentation this morning before our lunch break is on the treatment of IP licenses in bankruptcy. And we have with us today two speakers from O'Melveny & Myers. We're very pleased that they were able to join us this morning. To my right is Stanton Lovenworth. Stanton is counsel in O'Melveny's New York office, and a member of the Health Care and Life Sciences Practice. Stan ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2013

BLAKE RUBIN: All right, let's get started again. We've got a few more interesting tax quotes that we can throw out and ask people if they know who said them. "If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead, if you strike oil." J. Paul Getty. All right, "The federal income tax system is a disgrace to the human race." President during the 1970s. Guesses? Come on, we're giving away free iPads for correct guesses. BAHAR ...

Recorded on: Jan. 14, 2013

KENNETH CHIN: And for our next speaker we have Ken Carl, who's a partner at Sheppard Mullin from Los Angeles. I'm so happy he's traveled all the way across the country in order to give this presentation. Ken's practice focuses on lender and borrower representation and financing transactions, loan workouts, and bankruptcies. And Ken is a classmate of mine from law school. And I'm so happy that he's here. So Ken will talk to us about default and remedies. ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: Hi everybody. We're ready to continue with our last talk of the morning before lunch. At this point it's my pleasure to introduce Lillian Stenfeldt. She's a partner in the Creditor's Rights and Bankruptcy practice group. And in fact, she chairs that practice group at the Cedric firm here in San Francisco. Her practice areas and her expertise include bankruptcy and insolvency, creditor's rights, receivership matters, and complex commercial ...

Recorded on: Nov. 6, 2012

HOWARD WEG: Welcome back everyone. This afternoon we're going to delve into more details involving the plan confirmation process. We have Steve Felderstein and Andy DeNatale taking the laboring [INAUDIBLE]. Other people will chime in as we go along, I'm sure. ANDREW DENATALE: OK, so welcome to plan confirmation. Here we are at the confirmation stage. This means that the planned proponent has determined the preferred course to maximize the value of ...

Recorded on: Nov. 6, 2012

HOWARD WEG: We're getting ready to start. Good morning. And welcome back, everyone. Very often, your first encounter with insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings is when a client calls up you up and said, I got a letter from some bankruptcy lawyer saying if we don't pay back some amount we've been paid for goods we sold six months ago-- three months ago-- some period in the past-- they're going to sue us. And that's what we call avoiding powers. There's ...

Recorded on: Nov. 6, 2012

HOWARD J. WEG: Welcome back everyone. Let's quiet down and get going. The next panel is going to address some more details with respect to the Chapter 11 and the Chapter 11 plan process, which culminates ultimately this afternoon's panel dealing with what the terms of a plan include and how you confirm the plan. But this is the important beginning of the process. We have our two speakers today-- Steve Felderstein and Megan Lewis-- and I turn it over ...

Recorded on: Nov. 6, 2012

HOWARD J. WEG: All right. Welcome back, everybody. We're into the home stretch. I saved the best for last, I'd like to think. This particular panel is going to cover the topic of executory contracts and unexpired leases. My co-panelist, Ali Mojdehi, from Cooley Godward in San Diego's office has come up here to participate. And we've sort of divided the various topics that we're going to cover into smaller little bites, so I'll speak, then Ali will ...

Recorded on: Nov. 6, 2012

HOWARD J. WEG: Welcome back everyone. So for the next 75 minutes we're going to discuss ethical considerations in bankruptcy, which as I referenced earlier will qualify for one hour and 15 minutes worth of MCLA credit toward your ethics segment of your MCLA obligations and requirements. We're going to cover two broad areas, generally speaking. We're going to talk about, today, the appointment and employment of professionals and trustees in bankruptcy ...

Recorded on: Nov. 6, 2012

HOWARD WEG: So the next three panels are going to take us further into the area of chapter 11. This is a corporate nuts and bolts bankruptcy program. And the ultimate outcome of a corporate reorganization case involves looking closely at who are the players in chapter 11, what does a chapter 11 plan involve, and how does it get confirmed. And that's what we're going to be covering now. Our first speakers are my co-chair, Andrew DeNatale, and Ali ...

Recorded on: Nov. 6, 2012

LEWIS KRUGER: Ready to go. Lewis Kruger. Hello and good morning. Those of you in California based, obviously, a lovely and beautiful day and a nice day to be indoors at PLI. I'm going to talk for the next 15 to 20 minutes about the beginning of the process of dealing with a company and contemplating what its future should be and how you ought to think about dealing with it, whether it's an insolvency proceeding in the bankruptcy court or other alternatives. ...

Recorded on: Oct. 16, 2012

DANA MCFERRAN: Good morning. Just want to welcome everyone back to our New York facility, here all the participants here, and also to all of our participants via webcast, to Day Two of the PLI Pocket MBA program. I hope you all enjoyed the first day's session. I think it was very informative, and I hope that you'll enjoy today's session. I think we have a great host of distinguished faculty members and presenters. And as I said yesterday, please ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2012

ERIC B. SLOAN: All right, welcome back. For our next panel we have three really great speakers. To my immediate right is Doug Lane. Doug is a managing director at GLC Advisors which is a leading independent restructuring advisory firm. And before joining GCL Doug was with UBS's restructuring and leveraged finance group in San Francisco. And Doug is actually back-- this is your second year? DOUG LANE: Second year, yeah. Thank you. ERIC B. SLOAN: ...