Bankruptcy & Reorganizations 2023: Current Developments

Why You Should Attend 
This program will cover current issues relating to bankruptcy and restructurings. Issues in structured finance, cross border insolvencies, chapter 15, and latest developments in oil and gas, energy, healthcare cases, and valuation and contested plan issues will be explored. Plus, the faculty will best practices to be utilized to better protect creditors, and parties in interest, while maximizing values and recoveries. 

What You Will Learn 
After completing this program, participants will be able to: 
- Understand the marketplace developments at play 
- Identify bankruptcy financing issues and constructive approaches to them  
- Effectively manage liability and governance issues 
- Understand current cross border insolvency and Chapter 15 policies, rules, issues and procedures 
- “Turn it around” by successfully handling contested plan issues 

Who Should Attend 
This program is designed for a wide range of restructuring, bankruptcy, reorganization and other transactional practitioners, litigators, in-house counsel and financial advisers who are involved in restructurings and insolvency cases.  

Special Feature(s): N/A 

Program Level: Update  

Prerequisites: A background in restructurings and insolvency cases, and a basic knowledge of defaults, the Bankruptcy Code, rules and procedures. 

Advanced Preparation: None 

Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase of the entire program.

• Opening Remarks* [00:05:59]
  Rachel Ehrlich Albanese, Lisa M. Schweitzer
• Bankruptcy and Reorganization Marketplace Developments [01:32:13]
  Lawrence R. Perkins, Rachel Ehrlich Albanese, Lisa M. Schweitzer
• Bankruptcy Financing Issues [01:01:45]
  Michelle M. McGreal, Michael L. Cook, Jasmine Ball, Jane VanLare
• Corporate Governance and Liability Management [00:58:45]
  Jamila Justine Willis, Debra Sinclair, Kyle J. Kimpler, Ciara Foster
• Cross Border Insolvencies and Chapter 15 [01:00:42]
  Lisa M. Schweitzer, Barbra R. Parlin, Hon. Allan L. Gropper
• Turning It Around - Hot Topics in Contested Plan Issues [01:30:40]
  Abid Qureshi, Maria J. DiConza, Jessica Liou, Martin J. Bienenstock

The purchase price of this Web Program includes the following articles from the Course Handbook available online:

• Complete Course Handbook
• DLA Piper, Insights, Crypto Winter Spreading to Public Company Disclosure (December 14, 2022)
  Andrew Ledbetter,Deanna Reitman,Deborah Meshulam,Eric Forni,Margo Tank,Noah Schottenstein,Patrick Bryan,Rachel Ehrlich Albanese
• First Day Hearing Filings
  Rachel Ehrlich Albanese
• DLA Piper, Insights, What Should Customers Expect from the FTX Bankruptcy? Lessons Learned from MF Global and Similar Cases (November 16, 2022)
  Deborah Meshulam,Dennis O’Donnell,Eric Forni,Noah Schottenstein,Rachel Ehrlich Albanese,Stuart Brown
• DLA Piper, Insights, Bankruptcies Begin for Crypto Firms as “Crypto Winter” Settles In (July 24, 2022)
  Noah Schottenstein,Rachel Ehrlich Albanese
• DLA Piper, Insights, DeFi Participants Should Prepare to Confront the Unknown as Bankruptcies Loom (June 22, 2022)
  Deborah Meshulam,Mark Radcliffe,Noah Schottenstein,Rachel Ehrlich Albanese
• DLA Piper, Insights, President Biden’s Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets: Consumer Protection Implications, and 3 Steps for Digital Asset Issuers (March 11, 2022)
  Austin Brown,Isabelle Ord,Margo Tank,Noah Schottenstein,Rachel Ehrlich Albanese
• Crypto Bankruptcy Cases Chart (February 8, 2023) (PowerPoint slides)
  Rachel Ehrlich Albanese
• Business Reorganization Financing: Use of Cash Collateral Debtor-In-Possession Financing, and Related Financing Issues (February 2023)
  Lawrence V. Gelber,Michael L. Cook
• Proskauer Rose LLP, Insights, Boardriders: Minority Lenders Win Round One (November 7, 2022)
  David M. Hillman,Matther R. Koch,Michael T. Mervis,Patrick D. Walling,Peter Antoszyk
• Blocking Rights Case Law Outline and Cases
  Debra Sinclair
• Corporate Governance (PowerPoint slides)
  Debra Sinclair,Jamila Justine Willis,Joshua A. Sussberg,Kyle J. Kimpler,Nathan A. Haynes
• Current Developments in International Insolvency Law, A United States Perspective (2023)
  Allan L. Gropper
• Third-Party Releases in Chapter 11 Plans: Key Considerations and Recent Developments
  Lisa M. Schweitzer

Presentation Material

• Corporate Governance and Liability Management
  Ciara Foster, Kyle J. Kimpler, Debra Sinclair, Jamila Justine Willis
• Cross Border Insolvencies and Chapter 15
  Barbra R. Parlin
• Turning It Around - Hot Topics in Contested Plan Issues
  Martin J. Bienenstock, Maria J. DiConza, Jessica Liou, Abid Qureshi

This program will cover current issues relating to bankruptcy and restructurings. Issues in structured finance, cross border insolvencies, chapter 15, and latest developments in oil and gas, energy, healthcare cases, and valuation and contested plan issues will be explored. Plus, the faculty will best practices to be utilized to better protect creditors, and parties in interest, while maximizing values and recoveries. 

What You Will Learn 
After completing this program, participants will be able to: 
- Understand the marketplace developments at play 
- Identify bankruptcy financing issues and constructive approaches to them  
- Effectively manage liability and governance issues 
- Understand current cross border insolvency and Chapter 15 policies, rules, issues and procedures 
- “Turn it around” by successfully handling contested plan issues