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Bankruptcy & Restructuring

Recorded on: Jan. 20, 2011

SPEAKER 1: OK, welcome back from your break. On our next topic, we're going to cover Purchase Money Security Interest and Consignments. And for this presentation, I'm proud to introduce Ken Karl from Sheppard Mullin in Los Angeles and I thank him for flying out here. And as you may remember this morning, I introduced one of the speakers and told you that he'd given me my first job out of law school. Well, Ken has done something slightly even more ...

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: Jan. 15, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Secured Transactions 2013: What Lawyers Need to Know About UCC Article 9 NY Recorded January, 2013 in New York A. Default and Enforcement; B. Bankruptcy [01:15:38] A. Default and Enforcement Planning an exit strategy Has there been a default? Collecting deposit accounts Repossession and landlord waivers Intellectual property collateral LLC and limited partnership interests Judicial ...

From the program: Bankruptcy & Reorganizations 2013: Current Developments

Released on: Apr. 26, 2013

The credit markets continue to be volatile and in today’s weak economy, staying abreast of the current developments in restructuring, bankruptcy and reorganizations is essential. 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, developments, and recent decisions in diverse industries. They will cover the ramifications of the ...

Recorded on: Apr. 20, 2011

JOSEPH SAMET: Welcome back. In Volume Two of our book, there are two articles on the duties of officers and directors, one starting at page 485 and Jane's article starting at page 501. Everything you want to know about officers and directors, duties, liabilities, and theories is in there. But we'll amplify and give you more of a sense of that and what the trends are. After spending some time on officer, director, liability, fiduciary duties, we'll ...

From the program: Advanced Licensing Agreements 2013

Recorded on: Mar. 22, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Advanced Licensing Agreements 2013 recorded March, 2013 in New York. Lecture Topics  [01:15:43] Treatment of IP Licenses in Bankruptcy; Indemnification  [01:15:43] Bankruptcy Basic concepts relevant to transactions Restructuring vs. liquidation Protecting the licensee against licensor bankruptcy Protecting the licensor against licensee bankruptcy Different treatment for different ...

From the program: Asset Based Financing Strategies 2013

Released on: Mar. 25, 2013

Asset-based financing is a key source of credit for small and medium-size companies and for some larger, publicly traded companies as well. In contrast to equity financing where ownership in the company is diluted, asset-based financing allows companies to use their own assets to generate cash flow. In structuring these loans, lenders and their counsel must consider all senior interests in the collateral, as well as the practical difficulties in ...

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 ...

From the program: Nuts and Bolts of Corporate Bankruptcy 2012

Released on: Nov. 20, 2012

Businesses in financial distress are not an unusual sight these days, and as a result, it is essential for attorneys of all levels and in all practice areas to become familiar with the fundamental tenets of bankruptcy law. Whether you are just starting out in your career, thinking about broadening your practice area to include this field, or want to be able to spot the issues when advising your clients, this program will provide you with an essential ...

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. 21, 2011

HOWARD WEG: Welcome back, everyone, and good morning. Today we are on day two of our journey through learning the nuts and bolts of corporate bankruptcy law, an interesting and fun journey for those of us who practice in the area. I again want to encourage those in the PLI studio audience and those listening on the web to ask questions if you're here and type questions into the computer access that they give you for the web participants, and I will ...

Recorded on: Apr. 27, 2011

EDWIN E. SMITH: OK, we're now going head to bankruptcy, which is the litmus paper test of a secured transaction. This is where a secured party really finds out whether it's done all of the right things for its security interest to work. This particular talk is going to concentrate on a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, and how secured creditors are treated in a Chapter 11. But a lot of the things that we're going to talk about will apply to a Chapter 7 ...

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: Nov. 8, 2010

JOHN DELANEY: We're having a few minor technical difficulties with the PowerPoints, but I'm going to do the introductions. And I think we'll have everything fixed shortly. So the next topic. Welcome back. I hope everyone had a nice lunch session. We're back. We're going to talk about bankruptcy issues in connection with outsourcing. Even if you're not reading the papers, we're in the middle of a huge global recession. And hopefully, we're paying ...

Recorded on: May. 23, 2011

DR. LOTHAR DETERMANN: So welcome back everybody to the IP and business transactions program. We're going to go from worse to worst. We've just talked about taxes and now we're going into bankruptcy. But it's certainly something very important and something that with every transaction at the outside needs to be planned for. I have the great honor to introduce David Kennedy here, who is a rare breed in that he started out as a bankruptcy lawyer and ...

Recorded on: Feb. 23, 2012

LOTHAR DETERMANN: So, welcome back, everybody, to our program, IP Issues in Business Transactions. And following the exciting, fascinating topic of taxes, the only thing that could really top that is going to be bankruptcy. And we have a speaker here with Dave Kennedy, who is not only a bankruptcy expert, but also has a considerable amount of IP licensing and commercial expertise, and can help bridge both worlds. David has spoken at this program ...

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: Dec. 12, 2012

Taken from the Web Program Understanding the Intellectual Property License 2012 Recorded December, 2012 in San Francisco Bankruptcy Issues in Licensing [01:05:59] Treatment of IP and IP licenses under bankruptcy law Consequences of your licensor, or licensee, going bankrupt Structuring IP transactions to take into account bankruptcy risk Negotiating tips to address the bankruptcy contingency Preserving IP rights in the ...

Recorded on: Nov. 21, 2011

HOWARD J. WEG: All right, everyone, welcome back. The last hour and a quarter we're going to be covering the subject of the employee and compensation trustees and professionals in bankruptcy cases. And it's going to expand into the area of talking about when others, other interests, when creditors and the professionals might get compensated and how we treat prepetition claims for attorneys' fees, proofs of claims for them, objections to them as well, ...

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 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 ...

From the program: Commercial Real Estate Financing 2013

Released on: Mar. 1, 2013

This seminar will explore major issues and problems, and recent changes, in how lenders and borrowers negotiate commercial real estate loans in the still-lingering shadow of the recent financial crisis. Speakers will show how today’s lower valuations and the renewed conservatism of lenders will shape the terms, legal negotiations, and closing process of commercial real estate financing in 2013. This year’s program will turn back toward ...

Recorded on: May. 9, 2013

Taken from the briefing Distressed IP: Buying, Selling and Licensing Intellectual Property in Distressed Situations recorded May, 2013.The aftermath of the financial meltdown and the continued financial instability around the world give rise to potential opportunities, as well as risks, relating to intellectual property transactions. High-profile bankruptcy filings by global technology companies, such as Nortel and Kodak, followed by the ...

Recorded on: Jan. 31, 2011

JOSEPH SAMET: --about that in the last hour. So let's talk just briefly about the state of the restructuring markets, capital markets, wall of debt, default rates. It turns out that there was a lot of talk that there would be major insolvencies in this last year. That hasn't happened. In 2008, there were, and they were the biggest cases. But life has changed. Bill, maybe you have some thoughts about what has transpired in the last couple of years, ...

From the program: Recent Developments in Distressed Debt, Restructurings and Workouts 2013

Released on: Feb. 8, 2013

The unprecedented scope and continuation of the credit crisis, recession, and a weak recovery requires business people and professionals to react quickly and deal with distressed companies and defaults.  This includes problems in the automotive, financial services, airlines, retail, sports and entertainment and real estate industries.  The program will cover current issues relating to structuring, drafting and enforcing the rights of creditors ...