Caveat Emptor: The Purchase and Sale of Debt in Bankruptcy
This panel will discuss the purchase of secured debt and claims, disclosure of obligations, and the Lightsquared and Telecom cases.
Financial Statements: What’s Hiding Beneath the Surface, and Why Does It Matter?
This panel will take a look at financial statement analysis and key ratios, and why they matter in bankruptcy.
Convoluted Pollution: The (Sometimes) Messy Collision of Bankruptcy and Environmental Issues
This panel will discuss Freedom Industries, fracking and other issues.
What’s Yours Might Not Be: Section 541 and Property of the Estate
This panel will cover issues that arise when property of the estate isn’t property of the estate, tax status issues and tax attributes, including NOLs.
Shakedowns vs. The Pursuit of Justice: The Current Landscape of Avoidance Actions
This panel will provide an overview of new uses of cause of action, § 546(e) cases including Lyondell and Tribune, and proposed changes to the UFTA.
The Principles of Compensation: Checking In on the New U.S. Trustee Fee Guidelines
This panel will discuss who can get paid, for what, and why.
Checking In with the Supremes
This panel will review cases from the 2013 and 2014 terms (Bellingham; surcharge case; other bankruptcy cases).
Ethics Issues in Bankruptcy Litigation, Redux: Who’s Suing Whom?
The panel will discuss due diligence requirements before bringing suits, suits or demands made for leverage, asserting claims in excess of estate value, and ethics complaints and litigation advantages.
Disclosure? We Don’t Need No Stinking Disclosure! Rule 2014 and Ethical Conflicts of Interest
Once again, dear fans, Boris Badenough is involved in a hot chapter 11 case — this time involving Time & Lord, the owner of a failed movie franchise, “Fat Contests” (based on the book of the same name about an eat-to-the-death contest involving ordinary citizens in a future ruled by junk-food companies). Boris’s wife, Sophia, has been retained by Dallick Capital, the debtor’s investment banker, to handle the sale of the debtor’s intellectual property. However, Tardis Industries, a potential purchaser and creditor, has a problem with Dallick’s disclosure related to Sophia in its employment application. Further, the debtor’s lead counsel, Ciber & Mann PSC, may also have some disclosure issues as one of Boris’ subsidiaries, Master Industries, is one of their clients — and Boris is now interested in buying the debtor’s intellectual property. Will Sophia remain true to her fiduciary duty to her client, or will she give Boris the deal of the century, and will everyone give disclosure a chance?
Individual Chapter 11 Problems and Solutions, Including LLC Membership Interests, Absolute Priority Rule and Lifestyle Challenges
This panel consists of debtor and creditor lawyers who will debate current problematic issues in chapter 11 cases filed by individuals, including the absolute priority rule and challenges to the lifestyles of wealthy debtors.