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Valuation of Middle-Market Companies, Chapter 11 Reform Commission Proposals and Valuation in Municipal Restructurings among the Issues to Be Discussed at VALCON 2016

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Alexandria, Va. Leading professionals and dealmakers will want to attend the “VALCON 2016: Emerging Valuation Issues in Bankruptcy and Beyond” conference, taking place at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas March 14-16, 2016. Sponsored by the American Bankruptcy Institute, the Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors and the University of Texas Continuing Legal Education program, the conference will feature up to 14.25/17 hours of CLE/CPE credit, including 1 hour of ethics, with the opportunity to take part in special valuation fundamentals and technical valuation breakout program tracks. Stephen B. Darr of Huron Consulting Group Inc. (Boston) and Jay M. Goffman of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (New York) are the co-chairs for the conference.

 

Sessions include:

 

Track A: Valuation Fundamentals

  • Fundamentals of Accounting and Finance for Distressed Companies
  • Fundamentals of Valuation and Methodologies
  • Case Study: An Interactive Negotiation of a Distressed Company Restructuring

 

Track B: Technical Valuation Issues

  • Proper Structuring on the Front End
  • Estimating the Cost of Capital When Determining a Fair Valuation for Solvency Assessments
  • Use of Derivatives and Probabilistic Methods in Bankruptcy, Workouts and Insolvency Matters

 

General Sessions include:

  • ABI Commission Report: Proposed Amendments and Their Impact on Valuation
  • Current Issues in Valuing Intellectual Property
  • Valuation in Municipal Restructurings: Constitutional, Legal and Practical Issues
  • Detroit Then and Puerto Rico Now: The Similarities and the Differences
  • Valuation of Middle-Market Companies
  • Valuation and Distressed Investment Strategies
  • Judicial Panel
  • Hot Topics in Valuation
  • Ethics: Retention and Compensation of Professionals

 

For a program schedule and full list of speakers, please click here.

 

Members of the press looking to attend the VALCON 2016 conference should contact ABI Public Affairs Manager John Hartgen at 703-894-5935 or jhartgen@abiworld.org.

 

For more information on the VALCON 2016 Conference, please visit

http://www.abi.org/events/valcon-2016-emerging-valuation-issues-in-bankruptcy-and-beyond.

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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.abi.org/calendar-of-events

Regulators Look Into Mutual Funds’ Procedures for Valuing Startups

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Federal securities regulators are looking more closely at whether U.S. mutual funds have proper procedures in place to accurately price shares of private technology companies amid signs the tech boom is wavering, the Wall Street Journal reported today. The Securities and Exchange Commission in recent months has been asking more questions of large fund firms about how they value startups and whether their process ensures an accurate estimate of a company’s worth. The SEC conducts occasional checkups of mutual funds in which they examine things such as the proportion of funds’ holdings that are in hard-to-sell securities, which include shares of private companies. The amount of hard-to-sell shares is an indicator of how easily a mutual-fund investor would be able to get his or her money back. Some SEC examiners have shifted more of their focus in those regular reviews to possible shortcomings in the startup-valuation process. Read more. (Subscription required.) 

For further insights on valuation, be sure to pick up a copy of ABI’s A Practical Guide to Bankruptcy Valuation

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Frederick’s of Hollywood Sale to Authentic Brands Approved by Judge

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Frederick’s of Hollywood Inc. yesterday won bankruptcy court approval to sell its fabled lingerie brand to licensing company Authentic Brands Group Inc. for $22.5 million, the Wall Street Journal reported today. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Gross signed off on the sale yesterday at a hearing. Authentic Brands, which owns celebrity brands like Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali and Elvis Presley, as well as women’s fashion brands such as Jones New York and Juicy Couture, is buying Frederick’s intellectual property, some inventory and its e-commerce business. The company licenses the intellectual property to retailers and manufacturers. Read more.