First-day Motions

Health Care Bankruptcy & Restructuring for Creditors

This session will focus on key issues in a health care restructuring or bankruptcy from a creditor's point of view. It will address issues pertaining to both secured and unsecured creditors. Possible topics include: (1) understanding ways health care businesses are financed (receivables financing, municipal bond financing); (2) bankruptcy alternatives (receiverships, ABC, workouts); (3) DIP financing for health care businesses; (4) anticipating regulatory review; (5) issues concerning health care 363 sales; (6) issues facing committees in health care bankruptcy cases; and more. The session will help attorneys who represent creditors understand some of the main issues their clients face with respect to distressed health care businesses and strategies for protecting their interests as the debtor goes through a Chapter 11 case. Creditor Suggested Speakers Jeffrey Fuller jfuller@bloombergindustry.com Bloomberg Industry Group

Oil and Gas Royalties Never Become Estate Property in Colorado

The Third Circuit gave royalty owners a constructive trust over royalties improperly paid to secured creditors. The circuit court did not rule on remedy.