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Bankruptcy & Restructuring

Recorded on: Jan. 31, 2011

JOSEPH SAMET: We're back now. Alice Eaton is going to spend a few minutes on developments in rule 2019 having to do with who's the creditor, trading, disclosure, et cetera. And those are interesting developments for pre- and post-bankruptcy situations. And then on to the financial advisors. ALICE EATON: OK. So in the area of rule 2019, this is particularly relevant for ad hoc groups and committees and steering committees. Creditors who sort of come ...

Recorded on: Jun. 21, 2010

ERIC SLOAN: Good morning. We're going to get started. Welcome back to the second day of finance for lawyers. As with yesterday, we want to keep this interactive and casual so if you have questions or issues you want to explore, just raise your hand ask the panel. They'll repeat the questions so people on the web can hear the question and then they'll answer or dodge it as appropriate. We're going to start today with a panel on restructuring and bankruptcy. The ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2011

ERIC: All right, we are in the homestretch. Two panels to go. I'd like to welcome for the next panel on solvency, restructuring, and bankruptcy our three panelists. In the middle is a colleague, Farley Lee. He is a senior manager in the San Francisco office of Deloitte. He's in our FAS practice, Financial Advisory Services. He focuses on restructurings, particularly representing debtor side. And as he was explaining to me earlier, that typically involves ...

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: ...

Recorded on: Oct. 12, 2011

MARC MILLER: OK. We're staying on schedule. And we're now on our second to last session. 2:45 to 4:00 PM. Talking about solvency, restructuring, and bankruptcy. We're going to talk more about the concept you've heard, I think, initially yesterday morning around going concern. Hear about earnings, liquidity, financing, restructuring options. Obviously those with regard to solvency issues and the like. So we're pleased to have the following two gentlemen ...

Recorded on: Aug. 11, 2010

Good morning everyone. Hope everyone had a good night last night. Really appreciate you hanging in there, I know we covered a lot of topics yesterday. We have another full day today. So appreciate you guys being here bright and early. And anyone that's coming in after this is going to have to occupy this front row here. We're going to fill this up first. So thanks very much. We're going to get started. Our first session is solvency, restructuring, ...

Recorded on: Jun. 5, 2013

KIRSTEN S. AUNAPU: OK, great, I'd like to welcome our next speakers, Todd Rosen and Doug Bodel. The subject will be Solvency, Restructuring, and Bankruptcy. It'll be a 60-minute segment followed by lunch. I'd like to welcome back first, Todd Rosen, has been a speaker for this segment for the past couple of years. Todd is a bankruptcy partner in the Los Angeles office of Munger, Tolles, & Olson. Todd joined the firm in 2004 after working as an ...

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 ...

From the program: Tax Planning for Domestic & Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Alliances 2013 (New York)

Recorded on: May. 31, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Tax Planning for Domestic & Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Alliances 2013 (New York City) recorded May, 2013 in New York.Lecture Topics  [01:14:46]The Troubled Partnership - Workouts and Debt Restructurings  [01:14:46] Distressed partnerships and the effect of debt modifications, debt workouts, and partnership bankruptcy proceedings on partners and creditors. Debt modification ...

Recorded on: Apr. 20, 2011

JERRY MUNITZ: Mike, you have automatic stay and avoiding power. MICHAEL COOKE: I know. JERRY MUNITZ: You can expect a direct answer from Mike. MICHAEL COOKE: Yeah. A lot going on-- and speaking of Tribune. Among other things Tribune did-- because of the statute of limitations-- the statute of limitations, by the way, is in 546(a) of the code. Essentially it's two years from the order for relief soon to be brought and Tribune sued anybody who got ...

Recorded on: Nov. 21, 2011

Welcome back everyone. I should say it now because I don't know that we mentioned it earlier but for those of you who are in the PLI studio audience here, and for those of you watching at your offices or homes, there is a means by which you can, in the studio, you can raise your hands and ask questions at any point. And for those watching on the webinar, you can also type in on your computer the question you may have, and it comes up on a screen  ...

Recorded on: Apr. 20, 2011

JOSEPH SAMET: What's the scope of what's going on in the bankruptcy community in terms of numbers of cases? Well, the numbers of cases have gone to from a very low below 1% default rate in public debt about four years ago, and then suddenly shot up to about 12% about two years ago and is back down to the close to 1% now, similar to what it was in about 2007 before the credit crisis of 2008. So as a result of the lower default rates, of course the ...

Recorded on: Jan. 31, 2011

JOSEPH SAMET: Glad to be here. A year ago, did a program where unfortunately, I was stuck in Brussels in the midst of volcanic ash. And it was not possible to get back to a program for days, in spite a 27 hour haul from Brussels back to Madrid over land. But this is only a snowstorm. So welcome back. The afternoon segment will start of with the restructuring agreement, a bit on sales, and Alice Eaton will start off. ALICE BELISLE EATON: Thank you. ...

Recorded on: Apr. 20, 2011

SPEAKER 1: --object of claims, set-offs, recoupment, intercreditor agreements, and the like. And we have Babette Ceccotti who is joining us. She's a partner at Cohen, Weiss, & Simon. She specializes in labor issues in a broad range of case and employee benefit plans, representing unions and others in a significant number of Chapter 11 cases such as United Airlines, Delphi, Chrysler, GM. The Texas Rangers, which we'll touch on later baseball and ...

Recorded on: Feb. 27, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: Welcome back. I'm pleased to introduce our two last panelists, Katherine Piper to my immediate right and Kim Wiatrak to my far right. Katherine recently joined Calpine Corporation in Dublin where she's senior counsel for operations in the Western region. Prior to joining Calpine, she spent nine years as a corporate financial restructuring attorney at a large firm, focusing on all aspects of the acquisition, divestiture, and restructuring ...

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 ...