Skip to main content

ABIs Sixth Annual Caribbean Insolvency Symposium Examines the Year Ahead for Distressed Companies and Other Cross-Border Insolvency Issues

Submitted by webadmin on

Contact: John Hartgen

            

703-894-5935

             

href='mailto:jhartgen@abiworld.org'>jhartgen@abiworld.org

 

ABI’S SIXTH ANNUAL CARIBBEAN INSOLVENCY
SYMPOSIUM EXAMINES THE YEAR AHEAD FOR DISTRESSED COMPANIES AND OTHER
CROSS-BORDER INSOLVENCY ISSUES

December 11, 2009, Alexandria, Va.— The American
Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) will hold the sixth Caribbean Insolvency
Symposium at the Boca Raton Resort & Club in Boca Raton, Fla., from
Feb. 11-12, 2010. The program features a faculty of outstanding
practitioners, scholars and nine bankruptcy judges. The program chair
for the Symposium is
size='3'>Patricia A. Redmond of Stearns, Weaver, Miller,
Weissler, Alhadeff & Sitterson, PA (Miami). Judicial co-chairs are
Bankruptcy Judges
size='3'>Robert A. Mark (Miami) and
size='3'>Brian
Tester (Puerto Rico). Attendees have the opportunity to earn
up to 10.25 CLE credit hours including 1.25 hours of ethics. The
Symposium will feature sessions that take an in-depth look at cross
border insolvency issues, including what to expect in 2010 financing. A
“Views from the Bench” discussion features five bankruptcy
judges.

Featured program sessions include:

  • Have We Hit Bottom and Who's Fishing?
  • Chapter 15 Updates: What’s Hot Since We Last Talked?
  • Cross Border Fraud Issues: Madoff Goes Offshore
  • The Evolution of Bank Insolvencies
  • Business Law Updates
  • It Seems Like Old Times: CMBS Defaults, Workouts and
    Liquidations
  • Ethics and Malpractice: Navigating the Minefield, Exploding the
    Grenades

For a program schedule with the full list of program speakers for the

Symposium, please click on the link below.


face='Times New Roman'

color='#0000ff'>http://www.abiworld.org/CIS10/schedule.html

There will also be a special luncheon keynote by legal humorist Sean
Carter. For more information about the Caribbean Insolvency Symposium,
call ABI at (703) 739-0800 or visit
href='http://www.abiworld.org/CIS10'>http://www.abiworld.org/CIS10.

###

ABI is the largest multi-disciplinary, nonpartisan organization
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
12,400 attorneys, accountants, bankers, judges, professors, lenders,
turnaround specialists and other bankruptcy professionals, providing a
forum for the exchange of ideas and information. For additional
information on ABI, visit
face='Times New Roman'>www.abiworld.org. For additional
conference information, visit
title='blocked::http://www.abiworld.org/conferences.html'
href='http://www.abiworld.org/conferences.html'>
color='#0000ff'>http://www.abiworld.org/conferences.html.