This CLE course will provide attorneys dealing with defaulted loans secured by personal property with a review of when an Article 9 foreclosure will maximize value for the secured creditor. The panel will discuss the Article 9 foreclosure process and outline best practices to address obstacles in Ar... Read More

This CLE course will offer best practices for counsel to lenders, creditors, and private equity sponsors to structure transactions and lending practices to protect their claims and maintain their priority status against junior and unsecured creditors or borrowers facing insolvency or bankruptcy. Read More

This CLE course will compare receiverships, assignments for the benefit of creditors (ABCs), and bankruptcy, reviewing the advantages and disadvantages each offers to buyers, petitioning creditors, debtors, and non-petitioning creditors. The program will discuss what situations each process is best... Read More

This CLE webinar will discuss how restructuring counsel use "death trap" provisions and related tools to create an accepting impaired class of creditors and thereby ensure confirmation but without violating the confirmation requirements or running afoul of the prohibition against sub rosa plans or t... Read More

This CLE webinar will discuss whether and how Chapter 11 debtors can reinstate attractive loans, even those accelerated pre-petition, while at the same time preventing the lender from objecting to confirmation. The panel will review debtor and lender positions regarding what has to be done, how to d... Read More

This CLE webinar will discuss whether a prepetition tax sale of the debtor's property or a noncollusive lease (or option or contract) termination can be avoided post-petition as a fraudulent transfer or preference. The program will discuss how different circuit courts are analyzing these transaction... Read More

This CLE webinar will equip counsel to negotiate and draft forbearance agreements that provide maximum protection of lender interests while at the same time minimizing the risk of lender liability claims. A well structured and well drafted forbearance agreement can strengthen the lender's position s... Read More

This CLE course will discuss strategies that borrowers are increasingly using to create liquidity, delay maturities, and relieve covenant pressure to prevent bankruptcy while also allowing certain creditors to maintain control and preferred priority if bankruptcy ensues. The program will discuss how... Read More

This CLE webinar will discuss what bankruptcy attorneys need to know about Article 12 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) and related amendments to UCC Article 9 to prepare for transactions with existing and new digital assets. The panel will discuss virtual currencies, non-fungible tokens, and oth... Read More

This CLE course will provide bankruptcy and lender counsel with a review of the Fifth Circuit's latest decision in In re Ultra Petroleum, 51 F.4th 138 (5th Cir. 2022), the Delaware Bankruptcy Court's decision in In re Hertz Corp., Adv. Proc. No. 21-50995 (Bankr. D. Del. Nov. 9, 2022), and the solven... Read More

This CLE webinar will guide bankruptcy counsel for lenders through increasingly difficult and dizzying valuation issues in business bankruptcies. The program will discuss how to measure the worth of intangible, contingent, and other hard-to-value assets, issues created by more complex financial stru... Read More

This CLE course will provide finance and bankruptcy counsel with a review of the legal and economic issues in fraudulent conveyance avoidance actions for intercorporate guaranties, integrated transactions, and designated-use loans. The program will discuss how these transactions are at risk of being... Read More

This CLE webinar will guide bankruptcy counsel regarding the treatment of safe harbor agreements in bankruptcy, potential pitfalls related to safe harbor agreements, and how to avoid them. Read More

This CLE course will provide bankruptcy counsel with a review of strategic decision making in credit bidding, resolving the myriad of disputes among lenders and unsecured creditors, and overcoming legal challenges to the lender's right to credit bid. Read More

This CLE course will discuss the treatment of derivatives in bankruptcy. The panel will discuss the exemptions historically afforded derivatives before the financial crisis, the ramifications of those exemptions as shown in the Lehman and MF Global bankruptcies, and the current framework which exist... Read More