Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute’s (ABI’s) popular New York City Bankruptcy Conference is scheduled for May 9 at the New York Hilton Midtown in Manhattan. The day-long conference brings together a faculty of New York-area bankruptcy judges with practitioners from the top national insolvency firms in New York City to discuss timely bankruptcy issues. The conference features an expanded workshop format: Each of the six concurrent breakout sessions will be presented twice with different panelists, offering attendees two points of view on the same topic. Additionally, a judges’ roundtable featuring a panel of bankruptcy judges from the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York will discuss current bankruptcy case developments.

Topical sessions include:

• Big Stuff on Chapter 11 from the Second Circuit and Elsewhere
• Recent Developments in DIP Financing
• Recent Confirmation Issues
• Restructuring Abroad vs. Plenary Chapter 11
• D&O Litigation and Coverage Issues in Bankruptcy: Voidable Clauses, Who Owns Policy Proceeds, and Who Can Assert Claims
• Recent Trends in Liability Management: Structuring and Jurisprudence
• Mass Confusion: Win, Lose or Draw, What's Next After the Supreme Court Rules?
• The Crypto Crash and Future Outlook
• Ethics Roundtable: Current Issues in Bankruptcy Practice
• Legal and Practical Issues and Implications of Enforcing Judgments Inside and Outside of Bankruptcy
• Private Credit Restructuring
• U.S. Trustee Hot-Button Issues
• BAPCPA and Legislative Fixes: 20 Years Later
• Litigation Round-Up

Approval for approximately 7.25 hours of CLE credit, including 2.5 hours of ethics, is pending in states calculating CLE on a 60-minute hour, and 8.70 hours of CLE credit, including 3 hours of ethics, are pending in 50-minute-hour states. Nine hours of CPE credit are also available.

Todd M. Goren of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and Leon Szlezinger of Jefferies are the program chairs for the conference. Bankruptcy Judge Hon. Michael E. Wiles (S.D.N.Y.; New York) serves as the judicial chair.

Press interested in attending the New York City Bankruptcy Conference should contact ABI Public Affairs Officer John Hartgen at (703) 894-5935 or [email protected].

For more information about the New York City Bankruptcy Conference, call ABI at (703) 739-0800 or click here.            

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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 nearly 10,000 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.