2024

Hosted by ABI's Asset Sales Committee

This panel will delve into emerging issues in bankruptcy cases, offering perspectives from practitioners, chapter 13 trustees and the bench. The panelists will focus on post-confirmation appreciation in asset values, such as who gets the appreciation if the house sells during the chapter 13 or if the case converts to chapter 7; early plan payouts, evaluating final payments before the end of the commitment period, hardship discharges and creative plan modifications; no-look and bifurcated fees; and end-of-case mortgage issue solutions.

ABI Editor-at-Large Bill Rochelle, author of Rochelle’s Daily Wire, will lead a discussion with a panel of judges regarding recent significant cases involving subchapter V case law, simultaneous representation, and the need for financial distress before filing.

This panel will provide an overview and discussion of the current status of the law on subchapter V, including any recent legislation and the ABI Subchapter V Task Force's Final Report. The panelists will cover such key legal issues as eligibility, plan confirmation and other topics, the role of the subchapter V trustee both during the case and after plan confirmation, and important post-confirmation issues such as plan defaults and reporting.

This panel will analyze three major Supreme Court bankruptcy decisions (Kaiser Gypsum, Purdue Pharma and John Q. Hammons Fall) issued during its 2023-24 term, and the implications of these decisions for pending and future bankruptcy cases.