Contact: John Hartgen
703-894-5935
jhartgen@abiworld.org
BUSINESS AND CONSUMER BANKRUPTCY DEVELOPMENTS,
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS TAKE CENTER STAGE AT
ABI’s 19th ANNUAL SOUTHWEST BANKRUPTCY CONFERENCE
May 27, 2011 Alexandria, Va. -- More than 500 are
expected to attend ABI’s 19th Annual Southwest Bankruptcy
Conference, which will be held Sept. 8-10 at the Four Seasons Resort in
Las Vegas. An outstanding faculty of judges, academics and industry
professionals will examine timely bankruptcy topics at workshops that
include four tracks of concurrent programming: Consumer, Professional
Development, Financial Advisors and Chapter 11. The conference allows
attendees the opportunity to earn up to 9 CLE/10.5 CPE credit hours,
including 2.5/3 hours of ethics.
ABI's popular Great Debates series will once again be featured at the
Southwest Bankruptcy Conference. The program will include bankruptcy
experts debating the following topics:
· The “Absolute Priority
Rule” is applicable to a chapter 11 plan of
reorganization/liquidation for an individual.
· Third-party releases (or at least
very long injunctions) are appropriate provisions in a corporate chapter
11 plan of reorganization/liquidation.
· A permissible alternative treatment
of a secured creditor’s claim pursuant to Bankruptcy Code
§1129(b)(2)(a) pre-empts a secured creditor’s right to
credit-bid, pursuant to §363(k), if an asset sale is proposed as
part of a debtor’s plan
Sessions at the conference also include:
· Residential Foreclosures
· Impact of Supreme Court Cases in
Bankruptcy
· Is Individual Chapter 11 Just a
Chapter 13 on Steroids?
· Ethical Challenges in Representing
Committees
· Rainmaking in the Bankruptcy
Arena
· Financial Statements 101
· Retention and Compensation Issues
in Chapter 11 Cases
· Distressed Sales and Valuation
Methodologies
· Rights, Roles and Remedial Actions
with Respect to Corporate Insiders
· Getting Crammed Up or Down?
· Judicial Roundtable
· Ethics: The Outer Limits of Zealous
Advocacy
Program chairs for the conference are Candace C.
Carlyon of Shea & Carlyon, Ltd. (Las Vegas), Scott
F. Gautier of Peitzman, Weg & Kempinsky LLP (Los Angeles)
and Jeffrey N. Pomerantz of Pachulski Stang Ziehl &
Jones LLP (Los Angeles). The Judicial Chair is Bankruptcy Judge
Gregg W. Zive (Reno, Nev.), and the sponsorship chair
for the conference is Jeff Nerland of CRG Partners Group LLC (Santa Ana,
Calif.).
For a complete list of sessions and speakers at the Southwest Bankruptcy
Conference, please visit
href='http://www.abiworld.org/SW11/schedule.html'>http://www.abiworld.org/SW11/schedule.html.
For more information on the Southwest Bankruptcy Conference, please call
703-739-0800 or visit
href='http://www.abiworld.org/SW11'>http://www.abiworld.org/SW11.
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dedicated to research and education on matters related to insolvency.
ABI was founded in 1982 to provide Congress and the public with unbiased
analysis of bankruptcy issues. The ABI membership includes more than
13,000 attorneys, accountants, bankers, judges, professors, lenders,
turnaround specialists and other bankruptcy professionals, providing a
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