12-Hour Program

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Overview

Why You Should Attend

Staying abreast of the current developments in restructuring, bankruptcy and reorganizations is essential, and this advanced conference assembles a remarkable faculty of bankruptcy judges and leading practitioners who will provide you with a thorough review and analysis of hot topics and recent decisions in diverse industries. They will cover the Supreme Court’s decisions of Stern v. Marshall and Bellingham, and their practical implications on jurisdiction, administration of business cases and bankruptcy litigation. The faculty will also address a practical review of recent cases and trends that affect your practice on behalf of debtors, vendors, bondholders, lenders, diverse groups of creditors, hedge funds, committees, labor, and parties to executory contracts, structured finance deals, sales and other transactions. There will be special focus on valuation. Equip yourself with strategies and litigation tactics you can use daily, and feel confident advising your clients in these evolving areas of the law.

 What You Will Learn

  • Current marketplace developments; Bankruptcy Code Reform Issues
  • Stern v. Marshall, Bellingham, Wellness Int'l and subsequent appellate cases — drastic implications for bankruptcy and reorganization cases?Mediation best practices
  • Momentive, Fairfield Sentry, American Airlines, Lehman, General Motors, Madoff, Bayou, Tousa
  • Structured and complex finance developments
  • Corporate governance and the powers and duties of DIPs and of their boards; D&O liability, insurance and damage issues — Deepening Insolvency; Quadrant
  • Ethics and Civility in Practice
  • Controversies on sales of assets free and clear under Sections 363 and 1129 and bid procedures and protections — New Energy Corp.; Rushton; credit bidding (Fisker, Free Lance-Star et al); successor liability — GM
  • New developments regarding unsecured and secured claims and allowability of various types of interest, make whole premiums
  • Labor and pension issues and claims; Warn Act
  • Professional firm bankruptcies - "Unfinished Business" and other case developments
  • Defenses to voidable preference attacks, including new value and § 546(e)
  • Fraudulent conveyances, LBOs and safe harbors; section 546(e), "good faith," valuation issues; in pari delicto and Ponzi issues and defenses - SemGroup, Tribune, Lyondell and Madoff developments
  • Executory contracts, leases and IP transactional issues — § 365(n), structuring, assumption, rejection, cherrypicking and “ride-through”; Sunbeam; Interstate Bakeries
  • Enforcing intercreditor agreements, subordination, voting, distribution and litigation issues
  • International and cross-border insolvencies, inbound and outbound; Vitro, Fairfield Sentry

Special Feature

  • Earn one full hour of Ethics credit!

Who Should Attend

This program is designed for a wide range of restructuring, bankruptcy, reorganization and other transactional practitioners, litigators, in-house counsel and others who are involved in restructurings and insolvency cases. They should have at least basic knowledge of defaults, the Bankruptcy Code, rules and procedures. This program will help transactional, litigation, and IP lawyers prepare for and deal with defaults, restructurings, and sales of distressed assets.  Experienced lawyers will benefit greatly.

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