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Bankruptcy & Restructuring

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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: 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. 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 ...

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 ...

From the program: Pocket MBA Fall 2012

Recorded on: Oct. 16, 2012

Taken from the Web Program Pocket MBA Fall 2012 recorded October, 2012 in New York. Lecture Topics  [01:15:34] Solvency, Restructuring and Bankruptcy  [01:15:34] Market overview “Going concern” analysis indicators, including: - Earnings - Liquidity - Financing • Restructuring options and process: - Operational restructuring - Financial restructuring - Exit the business  ...

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: Jan. 13, 2012

MANNY: Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Manny Grillo, I'm a partner at Goodwin Procter. I'm the chair of the firm's bankruptcy practice. One, I'd like to thank those of you who are here in the room today for bearing the inclement weather, and also sort of hanging out till the end and enduring us. Hopefully we will make it worth your while for this last hour or so. I'd like to take a moment and introduce the members of the panel. All the way down ...

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: 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. 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: 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 ...