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ABI’S CANADIAN/AMERICAN CROSS-BORDER
INSOLVENCY SYMPOSIUM TO BE HELD ON NOV. 7 IN TORONTO
September 1, 2011, Alexandria, Va. —
Bankruptcy practitioners handling international cases will not want to
miss the American Bankruptcy Institute’s (ABI) Canadian/American
Cross-Border Insolvency Symposium on Nov. 7 at the Fairmont Royal York
in Toronto. Experts from Canada and the U.S. will be discussing the
hottest topics in cross-border proceedings at the Symposium, and
attendees will have the opportunity to earn 6 hours of CLE/CPD credit,
as well as 7 hours of CPE credit.This year’s program will also be
co-hosted by the Annual Review of Insolvency Law, the Canadian
Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals, the
Insolvency Institute of Canada and TMA Toronto. The co-chairs for the
Symposium are Steven G. Golick of Osler, Hoskin &
Harcourt LLP (Toronto) and Marcia L. Goldstein of Weil,
Gotshal & Manges LLP (New York).
Concurrent sessions include:
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Too Big to Fail. Or Is It?
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Labour-Relations Issues on Restructuring: The New Deal?
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Ancillary Proceedings: Chapter 15/Section 18.6—What Really
Happens?
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Cross-Border Workouts: A Roundtable. The Bear Pit Session!
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North American Idol: Insights from Leading Turnaround Specialists
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Where’s the Dough? What’s New in Financing Debtors?
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Hot Topics
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So, You Want to Be a Court Officer?
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Who’s in Control?
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To Infinity and Beyond: Where Have We Come From? Where Are We Now? Where
Are We Going?
The program also includes a special luncheon keynote by Paul Ingrassia,
a Pulitzer Prize-winning financial journalist and former president of
Dow Jones Newswires. For more information on the program schedule,
please click the following link:
href='http://www.abiworld.org/CANAM11/schedule.html'>http://www.abiworld.org/CANAM11/schedule.html
For more information on ABI’s Canadian/American Cross-Border
Insolvency Symposium, please visit
href='http://www.abiworld.org/CANAM11'>http://www.abiworld.org/CANAM11. If
you have a Twitter account and would like to follow the conference or
contribute a post about the conference, please utilize #CanAmIS11.
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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
forum for the exchange of ideas and information. For additional
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