Alexandria, Va. — Insights from some of the country’s top insolvency and restructuring experts on issues confronting the profession in 2017 will be addressed at the American Bankruptcy Institute’s (ABI) 28th Annual Winter Leadership Conference, taking place Dec. 1-3 at Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. This year's conference features ABI's Great Debates and 23 concurrent and committee sessions examining the hottest topics in bankruptcy. Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California - Irvine School of Law, will be the keynote speaker. Conference attendees have the opportunity to earn 16.25 hours of CLE credit and 19.5 hours of CPE credit, including 3.75/4 hours of CLE/CPE ethics credit. Additionally, this year’s Winter Leadership Conference will host its first Consumer Connect program, with separate sessions tailored specifically for consumer practitioners.
The featured Great Debates at the conference will be:
1) Whether a “work-around” contract provision is enforceable after ASARCO.
2) Whether a mortgage loan can be modified under § 1322.
3) Whether § 1129(a) requires an impaired accepting class for each debtor.
Sessions at the Winter Leadership Conference include:
- DIP Best Practices
- Obtaining & Retaining Clients in Tough Times: A Primer
- Strategies for a Quick Reorganization
- How to Draft a Plan and Disclosure Statement
- How Distressed Investors Think About Things
- Making Appeals More Appealing: When and How to Appeal
- Utilizing Expert Witnesses
- Chapter 22 or 33: An FA Post-Mortem
- Puerto Rico, ‘Super Chapter 9’ and the Future of Sovereign Debt: A Canary in a Coal Mine?
- Mediating Valuation, Intercreditor and Other Issues Affecting Secured Creditors in Bankruptcy
- The Supreme Court Casts a Wide Net for Actual Fraud Under § 523: Husky and Its Potential Impact
- Ethical Issues that Arise when Supervising Attorneys Work with Junior Attorneys and Nonattorney Professionals
- “Shark Tank”: In a riff on the popular television show “Shark Tank,” bankruptcy practitioners will pitch arguments of several commercial and consumer hot-button issues to a panel of judicial “sharks.”
- 45 Apps in 45 Minutes
- Tackling Taxing Employment Issues in Bankruptcy
- Fuse, Sever and Heal: Issues Impacting Health Care Facilities in Bankruptcy
- Not Everything Has to End this Way: Strategies for Keeping Your Retailer Out of Chapter 11
- ABI Bankruptcy Ideas Worth Spreading
- Round & Round Program: Leading Cases
- Practicing in the Limelight: Celebrity Bankruptcies
- Disruptive Engagement: The Role of Creditors’ Committees and Individual Creditors in Asset Sales
- Social Media & Ethics
- Cross-Border Tech Talk
To review a comprehensive schedule of speakers and optional events, please click here:
http://www.abiwlc.org/. If you are a member of the press and you would like to attend the conference, please contact John Hartgen at 703-894-5935 or jhartgen@abiworld.org.
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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 12,000 attorneys, accountants, bankers, judges, professors, lenders, turnaround specialists and other bankruptcy professionals, providing a forum for the exchange of ideas and information. For additional information on ABI, visit www.abiworld.org. For additional conference information, visit http://www.abiworld.org/conferences.html.