Audio

This panel will discuss how the D&O insurance policy of a company in chapter 11 is impacted by the company’s filing, and will include property-of-the-estate issues, stay relief and court authorization, and how to use the proceeds to drive settlements.

This panel will discuss how consumer attorneys can use chapter 5 avoidance actions and other adversary proceedings in chapter 7 and 13 cases.

This panel will include individuals from various business sectors discussing how they select counsel and what they expect from their counsel during the representation.

This panel will discuss recent developments in chapter 11 and other business-related restructuring issues.

As the value of commercial and residential real property is often in flux, especially in light of the Great Recession of 2008, the rights and obligations of interested parties, as well as their incentives and motivations, can change. This panel will discuss the implications of changing valuations of residential real property in chapter 7 and 13 cases, as well as residential and commercial real property in chapter 11 cases.

This panel will discuss the role of key employee incentive and retention plans in bankruptcy cases, including the development of such plans and the legal and factual requirements for approval by the bankruptcy court.

The panel will discuss the ins and outs of business development and the various ways attorneys and their firms market their practices.

This session will highlight particularly interesting case law developments to date in 2016 and their impact on bankruptcy law and practice.

This panel will address the unique issues presented when matters involving fraud, including Ponzi schemes, arise. The discussion will include best practices for responding to, or managing, fraud allegations directed to a client inside and outside of bankruptcy, addressing and investigating fraud from an accounting perspective (including strategies for identifying hallmarks of fraud), and current developments in case law relating to fraud and Ponzi schemes in the bankruptcy context.

BAPCPA established several hurdles that debtors have to overcome in order to obtain a discharge of a confirmed plan. Confirmation of the plan in many respects is only the beginning of the process. This panel, which includes two chapter 13 trustees and an experienced creditors’ counsel and is moderated by an experienced debtors’ counsel, will explore the issues that arise after confirmation, including the completion of required tasks for a debtor to obtain a discharge. Issues to be discussed include plan modification, requirements imposed upon lenders, and duties imposed upon debtors to obtain discharge.