| Panel Time & Title |
Faculty |
Audio Recording |
Handouts |
Description |
7:30 a.m. -- Registration and Continental Breakfast sponsored by MILBANK |
| 8:00 a.m. -- Chairman's Opening Remarks |
Hugh M. Ray at McKOOL SMITH |
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| 8:10 a.m. -- Year in Review & New Business Opportunities |
Steven L. Gidumal at VIRTUS CAPITAL, LP |
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Steve Gidumal joined us for the 17th year to share his insights and
unique perspectives about the prior year's winning and losing distressed
investments and share his thoughts about what's ahead given
the outcome of the presidential election, continued high unemployment, and
record-low interest rates. |
| 8:40 a.m. -- Municipal Debt Restructuring discussion |
- William A. Brandt at DEVELOPMENT
SPECIALISTS, INC. (and Chairman of the Illinois Finance Authority)
- Douglas S. Mintz at
CADWALADER, WICKERSHAM & TAFT
- Mark D. Schwartz (a Bryn Mawr,
Pennsylvania-based lawyer and former head of municipal bonds for Prudential
Financial Inc.'s mid-Atlantic region who represented the City of
Harrisburg)
- Frank C. Paul, Managing Director of Public Finance at ACADEMY
SECURITIES, INC.
- Gregory Charleston, Senior Managing Director
CONWAY MacKENZIE, INC.
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| 9:30 a.m. -- Energy Industry Opportunities & Pitfalls |
- Paul N. Silverstein at ANDREWS KURTH LLP
- Robin Russell at ANDREWS KURTH LLP
- Tero O. Jänne at JEFFERIES & COMPANY, INC.
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Energy Industry Update |
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| 10:10 a.m. -- Networking Break sponsored by Beard
Books |
Beard Books distributed free copies of these Beard Books titles authored by our faculty
members:
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Other corporate restructuring titles published
by Beard Books |
| 10:25 a.m. -- Wildcard Claim Valuation |
- Tyson Lomazow at MILBANK, TWEED, HADLEY & McCLOY LLP
- John Brincko at SITRICK BRINCKO
- George Schultze at SCHULTZE ASSET MANAGEMENT, LLC
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This panel outlined practical ways for investors to place
values on the complex wildcard claims and causes of action like fraudulent
conveyance claims, preference recoveries, and other
claims and causes of action that may not be liquidated for years but may
substantially impact creditor (and shareholder) recoveries in distressed
situations. |
| 11:05 a.m. -- Family Office Distressed Investing |
- Adam C. Harris at SCHULTE ROTH & ZABEL LLP
- Paul A. Rubin at HERRICK FEINSTEIN, LLP
- Ira Perlmuter at T5 EQUITY CAPITAL
- Samuel Brill at WEISMANN CAPITAL, LLC.
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| 12:05 p.m. -- The Harvey R. Miller Awards Luncheon sponsored by EPIQ SYSTEMS presenting the
Harvey R. Miller Outstanding Achievement Award for Service to the
Restructuring Industry to Harrison J. Goldin, the founder of GOLDIN
ASSOCIATES, LLC, and Mr. Goldin's keynote address, "My Advice to
Distressed Investors" |
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Turnarounds & Workouts interview with Jay Goldin |
| 1:15 p.m. -- Multinational Companies in Chapter 11 |
- J. Andrew Rahl at
REED SMITH
- Joseph J. Radecki Jr. at LINCOLN INTERNATIONAL
- Marcia L. Goldstein at WEIL, GOTSHAL
& MANGES LLP
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| 2:00 p.m. -- Credit Bidding |
- Robb L. Tretter at BRACEWELL & GIULIANI
- Mark F. Hebbeln at FOLEY & LARDNER LLP
- Norman S. Robenbaum at MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP (who represented the bank in RadLAX
Gateway Hotel, LLC v. Amalgamated Bank in the Bankruptcy Court,
Circuit Court and U.S. Supreme Court
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| 2:45 p.m. -- Networking Break sponsored by SITRICK BRINCKO GROUP LLC
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| 3:00 p.m. -- Labor Relations
Successes & Disasters |
- Steven C. Bennett at JONES DAY
- Robert D. Katz at EXECUTIVE SOUNDING BOARD ASSOCIATES, INC.
- Lorenzo Mendizabal, Managing Director, EPIQ SYSTEMS
- Timothy Turek, Managing Director, CONWAY MacKENZIE, INC.
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There are limits to what can and can't be done to pare
labor costs in a chapter 11 setting. Learn what's worked in the past,
what hasn't,
and what ideas might be out there that haven't been tested. We'll
also touch on communicating with employees, their confusion, and
debtors' best practices beyond the typical first-day motion for
permission (but not direction) to continue employment programs. |
| 3:45 p.m. -- Ethics Hour |
- John Wm. (Jack) Butler at SKADDEN ARPS SLATE MEAGHER & FLOM LLP
- Prof. Harlan Platt, NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY D'AMORE-McKIM SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
- Jeffrey R. Gleit, Partner, KASOWITZ, BENSON, TORRES & FRIEDMAN LLP
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| 4:45 p.m. -- Investors' Roundtable |
- Steven L. Gidumal, Panel Moderator, Managing Partner, VIRTUS CAPITAL, LP
- Leon Frenkel, General Partner, TRIAGE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
- Ken Grossman, Managing Partner, JURIS ADVISORS LLC
- Gary E. Hindes, Managing Director, THE DELAWARE BAY COMPANY LLC
- Dave Miller, Portfolio Manager, Elliott Management Corp.
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This veteran panel of distressed investors will tell you how they've
invested their money and how they intend to invest their money in the
current environment of low interest rates, high
unemployment, and runaway government spending. |
| 5:30 p.m. -- Wine Tasting for all delegates, speakers and honorees and Honors Banquet
hosted by
SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM LLP
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Honoring the 2012 Turnarounds & Workouts Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyers:
Ryan Blaine Bennett at Kirkland & Ellis
Ronit Jeanine Berkovich at Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Mark W. Deveno at Bingham McCutchen
Shana A. Elberg at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Peter M. Friedman at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
Jeffrey R. Gleit at Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman
Todd M. Goren at Morrison & Foerster
Tyson M. Lomazow at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Douglas Mannal at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
Brian Resnick at Davis Polk & Wardwell
Rachel Strickland at Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Eric Winston at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
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