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Overview
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 real estate, and healthcare cases, and DIP financing and contested plan issues will be explored. Plus, the faculty will discuss best practices to be utilized to better protect creditors, and parties in interest, while maximizing value and recoveries.
What You Will Learn
After completing this program, participants will be able to:
- Understand the regulatory and legislatives developments at play
- Identify bankruptcy financing issues and constructive approaches to them
- Make sense of the latest developments in liability management and pre-petition transactions
- Understand current cross border insolvency and Chapter 15 policies, rules, issues and procedures
- “Turn it around” by successfully handling valuation and 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.
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
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Please note that the views and opinions expressed in this program represent those of individual speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of PLI.
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Credit Details
Credit Details For All Jurisdictions For This Program
| Jurisdiction | Status | Total | Credit Details |
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- Apr 16, 2025
9:00 AM EDT
Opening Remarks
Rachel Ehrlich Albanese, Barbra R. Parlin
9:05 AM EDT
Bankruptcy and Reorganization Hot Topics
After completing this session, participants will have a greater understanding of:
- Understand amendments to local bankruptcy rules including disclosure rules regarding the use of AI
- New SDNY procedures for combined Disclosure Statement and Confirmation Hearings (Spirit Airlines)
- Whether to walk or run through chapter 11 – are chapter 22 cases inevitable?
- Current filing trends in retail, dining, health care, aviation
- Update on the impact of crypto-related cases, potential effects of tariffs and changes to SEC oversight/rules
- Proposed changes to Bankruptcy Rule 3018 and what happens when no one votes in Subchapter V cases (1191(b))
- Legislative and regulatory winds of change – updates on bankruptcy code and rules, as well as key bankruptcy reform issues in congress
Rachel Ehrlich Albanese, Hon. Lisa G. Beckerman, Barbra R. Parlin
10:05 AM EDT
10:15 AM EDT
Liability Management and other Pre-Petition Transactions
After completing this session, participants will have a greater understanding of:
- Enforceability of pre-petition liability management transactions
- Litigation issues arising pre and post-petition
- Impact of LMEs on future restructurings/chapter 11 plans
- Role of UCC and case players in LME claims litigation
Theresa A. Foudy, Susheel Kirpalani, Damian S. Schaible
11:15 AM EDT
11:30 AM EDT
Bankruptcy Financing Issues
After completing this session, participants will be able to:
- Understand the latest contested issues in DIP financing in chapter 11
- Identify the key issues and recent precedent regarding bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy financing solutions (e.g., uptier transactions, roll ups, equity conversion, DIP to exit facility, other case controls)
- Learn about new developments in exit financing strategies and existing lender participation
- Recognize the latest secured lender strategies for financing towards a sale process to monetize collateral
- Learn about latest court rulings on inter-creditor disputes
Jasmine Ball, Michael L. Cook, Michelle M. McGreal
12:30 PM EDT
1:15 PM EDT
Cross-Border Insolvencies and Chapter 15
After completing this session, participants will be able to:
- Understand the intricacies of Chapters 11 and 15, particularly in relation to cross-border filings and developments.
- Analyze the challenges and strategies involved in restructuring multi-jurisdictional corporate groups.
- Identify and explain the differences between foreign main and non-main proceedings, and the latest trends in this area.
- Evaluate methods to challenge recognition and enforce controversial foreign plans, considering the concept of extraterritoriality.
- Stay updated on new foreign insolvency statutes and their implications.
- Review and discuss current cases to apply theoretical knowledge to practical scenarios.
Hon. Allan L. Gropper, Craig Martin, Lisa M. Schweitzer
2:15 PM EDT
2:30 PM EDT
Turning It Around – Hot Issues in Chapter 11 Plans
After completing this session, participants will have a greater understanding of:
- How to handle valuation and contested plan disputes
- Third Party Releases, opting in or out, voting
- The growing use of toggle plans coupled with a sale process
- Strategies to resolve mass tort liabilities through bankruptcy
- Conversion price disputes
Elizabeth A. LaPuma, Lisa Laukitis, John J. Monaghan, Anupama Yerramalli
4:00 PM EDT
