Rhode Island

Business Track - Pushing the Envelope

This program will feature a discussion of the aggressive provisions that debtor's, lender's and buyer's counsel have been trying to insert into DIP orders, sale orders and confirmation orders.

Consumer Track - The National Mortgage Settlement: How Will It Affect Consumer Bankruptcy Cases?

Although the impetus for the $25 billion settlement was robosigning issues in foreclosure cases, many of its provisions affect residential mortgage loans in consumer bankruptcy cases. The panel will discuss the terms of the consent judgment, which will impact the handling of home loans by debtors, the affected servicers, the USTP and the bankruptcy courts.

Professional Development Track - "I'm Shocked-Shocked!-to Find that Unethical Conduct Is Going On in Here!": A Tale of Ethics in Bankruptcy

Our play will address the ethical pitfalls faced by the attorneys in the chapter 11 bankruptcy of Casablanca Snow Globes, Inc., a once-thriving manufacturer of world-class snow globes that has fallen on hard times due to cheap foreign competition, changes in consumer taste

Financial Advisors Track - How to Create Value for the Estate from Your First Client Meeting until Entry of a Final Decree

This panel will explore the ways in which financial advisors, investment bankers and chief restructuring officers can add value to a financially distressed company. Topics to be explored will include assessment of management, evaluation of asset quality, analysis of financial reporting, maintaining relationships with other stakeholders, creating operational improvements and other related endeavors.

Hedge funds are an integral part of the current-day corporate restructuring world in larger cases. Some argue that their involvement provides added sources of liquidity and is beneficial to the process. Others contend that hedge funds' efforts to game the process and their singular focus on profits, often at the expense of reorganization, has transformed the restructuring process in a negative way. This panel of hedge fund players and restructuring advisors will debate these and other issues.