Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute’s (ABI’s) popular New York City Bankruptcy Conference is scheduled for June 17 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 the New York metro area to discuss timely bankruptcy issues. The conference features an expanded workshop format: Each of the six concurrent breakout sessions will be presented twice with modified panelists, offering attendees varying 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:

• Second Circuit Updates with Bill Rochelle
• Financing the Case: Recent Developments in DIP and Exit Financing
• Confirmation Issues
• Chapter 11 vs. the World
• Litigation Roundup
• Consensual Releases Post-Purdue
• Does Chapter 11 Still Work?
• Ethics Panel
• LMEs After Serta
• New Boss Same as the Old Boss: How Trump 2.0 Might Impact Restructuring
• Reshaping America: Examining the Recent Wave of Hospital and Retail Bankruptcies
• Distressed Corporate Governance

Approval for up to 9 hours of general CLE credit, including up to 1.2 hours of ethics, is pending.

Todd M. Goren of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and Leon Szlezinger of Jefferies are the program chairs for the conference. Bankruptcy Judge Hon. Lisa G. Beckerman (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 jhartgen@abi.org.

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.