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January 23, 2007 Alexandria,
Va. —The American Bankruptcy Institute's
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City Bankruptcy Conference is scheduled for May 12 at the Millennium
Broadway Hotel and Conference Center/Hudson Theatre in New York City.
The day-long conference brings together a faculty of
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the top national insolvency firms in
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related to bankruptcy. The workshops and plenary sessions offer 7.0
hours of
Lisa J. Donahue
of AlixPartners LLC, Glenn E. Siegel of Dechert LLP and Albert
Togut of Togut, Segal & Segal, LLP are the program chairs for
the conference. Bankruptcy Judge James M. Peck (S.D.N.Y.) serves
as the judicial chair.
“Nuts & Bolts:
Bankruptcy Fundamentals for Young Practitioners,” a separate
program on bankruptcy fundamentals for practitioners new to the
bankruptcy arena, will be offered again this year. The program, chaired
by Ira L. Herman of Thompson & Knight LLP, will be held on
May 9 at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, located at the Alexander Hamilton
U.S. Custom House in
City
Panel discussions at the
conference include:
A Judges’ Roundtable,
moderated by Bankruptcy Judge James M. Peck (S.D.N.Y.), will
feature a panel of bankruptcy judges from the Southern and Eastern
Districts of
York
Albert Togut of
Togut, Segal & Segal, LLP will moderate the “
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Analysis” plenary session with panelists Diana G. Adams of
the Office of the U.S. Trustee (Region 2), Prof. Stephen J.
Lubben of Seton Hall Law School (Newark, N.J.), Deirdre A.
Martini of CIT National Restructuring Group and Michael P.
Richman of Foley & Lardner LLP .
“Hot Topics in Valuation
Decisions/Fights” will be moderated by Martin J.
Bienenstock of Dewey & LeBoeuf, LLP with panelists Kenneth A.
Buckfire of Miller Buckfire & Co., LLC, Gary L. Kaplan of
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, Bankruptcy Judge
James M. Peck (S.D.N.Y.) and Mark Shapiro of Lehman
Brothers.
Distressed investing guru
Wilbur L. Ross Jr. of W.L. Ross & Co. will be moderating the
“Subprime Panel” session with panelists Lewis Kruger
of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, James M. Lukenda of
Huron Consulting Group LLC, Bankruptcy Judge Cecelia G. Morris
(S.D.N.Y.) and James H.M. Sprayregen of Goldman Sachs &
Co.
The “Gift Plan
Contributions” session will be moderated by Lindsee P.
Granfield of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP with
panelists Howard S. Beltzer of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP,
Matthew Cantor of Normandy Hill Capital, L.P., Bankruptcy Judge
Arthur J. Gonzalez (S.D.N.Y.) and Michael J. Sage of
O'Melveny & Myers LLP.
“Changing Players in
Chapter 11,” to be moderated by Peter V. Pantaleo of
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, will include panelists Shelly C.
Chapman of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP , Bankruptcy Judge
Robert E. Gerber (S.D.N.Y.), Thomas Moers Mayer of Kramer
Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP and My Chi To of Debevoise &
Plimpton LLP.
The “Changing the Face of
Corporate America” will be moderated by Lisa J. Donahue of
AlixPartners LLP and feature panelists Bankruptcy Judge Robert D.
Drain (S.D.N.Y.), Marshall Scott Huebner of Davis Polk &
Wardwell, James E. Millstein of Lazard Freres & Co. LLC and
Bruce H. Simon of Cohen, Weiss & Simon LLP.
“Hot Topics in Financings
and Asset Dispositions,” to be moderated by Michael Luskin
of Luskin, Stern & Eisler LLP, will feature panelists Bankruptcy
Judge Allan L. Gropper (S.D.N.Y.), William Q. Derrough of
Jefferies & Company, Inc., Marcia L. Goldstein of Weil,
Gotshal & Manges LLP and Brian Trust of Mayer Brown
LLP.
The “Asset
Protection” session will be moderated by Michael L. Cook of
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP with panelists Melanie L. Cyganowski
of Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn
(S.D.N.Y.), Alec P. Ostrow of Stevens & Lee, PC and Gideon
Rothschild of Moses & Singer LLP.
A panel featuring Bankruptcy
Judge Stuart M. Bernstein, Richard M. Cieri of Kirkland
& Ellis LLP, Steven J. Reisman of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost,
Colt & Mosle LLP and Scott Y. Stuart of Donlin, Recano &
Company, Inc. will join moderator David I. Paulker of Goldin
Associates, LLC for the “Troubled Hedge Fund Liquidations”
session.
The “Rights
Offerings” panel will be moderated by David L. Resnick of
Rothschild, Inc. with panelists D. J. “Jan”
Baker of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Lisa G.
Beckerman of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Glenn E.
Siegel of Dechert LLP and Bankruptcy Judge Elizabeth S.
Stong (E.D.N.Y.).
Corinne Ball of
Jones Day will moderate the “International Panel” session
featuring panelists Evan C. Hollander of White & Case LLP,
Bankruptcy Judge Burton R. Lifland (S.D.N.Y.), Deryck A.
Palmer of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP and Joseph
Samet of Baker & McKenzie LLP.
Sponsors for this
year’s event include: AlixPartners LLP, Baker &
McKenzie LLP; Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP; Davis Polk &
Wardwell; Debevoise & Plimpton LLP; Dechert LLP, Donlin, Recano
& Company, Inc.; Dewey & LeBoeuf, LLP; Epiq Systems; Fried,
Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP; Goldman Sachs & Co.;
Greenberg Traurig, LLP; Huron Consulting Group LLC; Jefferies &
Company Inc.; Jones Day, Kirkland & Ellis LLP; Kramer Levin Naftalis
& Frankel LLP; Luskin, Stern & Eisler LLP; Mayer Brown LLP;
Mesirow Financial Consulting, LLC; Miller Buckfire & Co.; LLC,
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP; Normandy Hill Capital, L.P.;
Rothschild, Inc.; Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP; Simpson, Thacher &
Bartlett LLP; Stroock & Stroock & Lavin LLP; Togut Segal &
Segal, LLP; Thompson Knight LLP; W.L. Ross & Co.; Weil Gotshal &
Manges LLP; White & Case LLP; and Willkie, Farr & Gallagher
LLP.
For more information about the
New York City Bankruptcy Conference, call
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details at
href='http://www.abiworld.org/NY08'>http://www.abiworld.org/NY08.
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