Bankruptcy Battlegroud West 2010

LOS ANGELESBANKRUPTCY BATTLEGROUNDWEST

Hyatt Century Plaza Nuts and Bolts: Thursday, March 4

Battleground West: Friday, March 5

Thursday, March 4NUTS & BOLTS A STAND-ALONE PROGRAM

9:00-9:15 a.m.Introductory RemarksHon. Barry Russell, Judicial ChairU.S. Bankruptcy Court (C.D. Calif.); Los Angeles

9:15-10:30 a.m.The BasicsPart I of the Nuts & Bolts program provides an introduction to the structure and format of the Bankruptcy Code and Bankruptcy Rules, as well as an overview of the provisions of each that are implicated in both individual and corporate bankruptcy filings.Richard W. Brunette, Jr. Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP; Los AngelesDavid B. GolubchikLevene, Neale, Bender, Rankin and Brill, LLP Los Angeles Hon. Barry RussellU.S. Bankruptcy Court (C.D. Calif.); Los Angeles

10:30-10:45 a.m. Coffee Break

10:45 a.m.-12:00 noonBankruptcy Motion Practice and EvidencePart II of the Nuts and Bolts program provides practical advice from experienced judges and legal practitioners on the art of motion practice in bankruptcy court, as well as the necessity and use of evidence in bankruptcy court proceedings, and practical advice for practitioners new to bankruptcy practice regarding court appearances.David B. GolubchikLevene, Neale, Bender, Rankin and Brill, LLP Los AngelesHon. Barry RussellU.S. Bankruptcy Court (C.D. Calif.); Los Angeles

12:00-1:15 p.m.Networking LunchThe traditional Nuts & Bolts networking lunch provides new bankruptcy professionals the opportunity to mingle with some of Los Angeles’ best-known bankruptcy judges, lawyers, professors and professionals.Sponsored by Kurtzman Carson Consultants

1:15-4:15 p.m.Business Bankruptcy and Consumer Bankruptcy TracksParticipants can select from afternoon programs focusing alternatively on business bankruptcy and restructuring, or consumer bankruptcy issues.

Welcome to the 18th ANNUALA M E R I C A N B A N K R U P T C Y I N S T I T U T EBANKRUPTCY BATTLEGROUND WEST

In its 18th year, ABI’s Bankruptcy Battleground West continues the tradition of bringing seasoned insolvency professionals together to discuss, debate and learn about leading issues of bankruptcy law. This year’s program, “The Perfect Storm: Navigating the Latest Wave of Insolvency,” addresses some of the most intriguing issues that have emerged during the latest insolvency cycle, including the conflicts between intellectual property and bankruptcy law, challenges to the structure of insolvent real estate enterprises, the increasing use of prepackaged and prenegotiated plans as a restructuring strategy, and the re-emergence of litigation challenging lenders, their claims and their reorganization strategies.

The program will include a courtroom-style debate featuring several of the leading practitioners in our field, and a look into both the past and the future of the current recession by a renowned economist from the UCLA Anderson Forecast. This is one bankruptcy program you will not want to miss!

1:15-2:30 p.m.A Practical Guide to the Corporate Restructuring ProcessDelivered by the co-founder of a leading administrative-support solutions firm serving the corporate restructuring community, who has also served as a judicial bankruptcy law clerk and a restructuring attorney in two of the largest bankruptcy practice groups in the nation, this presentation offers a unique global perspective on the business of corporate bankruptcy. The presentation provides an overview of chapter 11 corporate restructuring, including its origins, evolution and key players, with emphasis on the practical aspects of the process.Jonathan CarsonKurtzman Carson Consultants LLC; El Segundo, Calif.

1:15-2:30 p.m.Consumer Bankruptcy Practices: Part ITaught from the perspectives of practitioners, judges and academics, this session will address issues including counseling the consumer debtor and preparing to file, the “means test,” debtor relief agencies, additional documentation requirements, exemptions and the automatic stay.Hon. Laura Stuart TaylorU.S. Bankruptcy Court (S.D. Calif.); San DiegoEdward M. WolkowitzRobinson, Diamant & Wolkowitz, APCChapter 7 Panel Trustee (C.D. Calif.); Los Angeles

2:30-2:45 p.m. Coffee Break

2:45-4:30 p.m.Legal Issues in Business BankruptcyThis session will address in greater depth some of the most important legal issues in business bankruptcy cases, including those relating to cash collateral, financing, asset sales and plan confirmation.Deborah J. SaltzmanDLA Piper; Los AngelesJudy B. SloanSouthwestern University Law School; Los Angeles

Consumer Bankruptcy Basics: Part IIAgain offering an array of perspectives, this session will address issues including lien avoidance, redemption and reaffirmation, proofs of claim, limits on discharge for repeat filers, nondischargeable debts, secured property, choice of chapter and debtor education.Hon. Laura Stuart TaylorU.S. Bankruptcy Court (S.D. Calif.); San DiegoEdward M. WolkowitzRobinson, Diamant & Wolkowitz, APCChapter 7 Panel Trustee (C.D. Calif.); Los Angeles

4:30-5:30 p.m.Closing Reception

Friday, March 518th ANNUALBANKRUPTCY

BATTLEGROUND WEST

8:00-9:00 a.m.Breakfast and Registration The Advisory Board welcomes you to a complimentary continental breakfast

9:00-9:15 a.m.Welcome by Conference Leadership

9:15-10:30 a.m.Back to the Future: Bankruptcy Litigation is Back with a VengeanceThis program will explore familiar topics that are once again being litigated in bankruptcy courts around the country, including equitable subordination, in pari delicto, deepening insolvency, free and clear sales and sub rosa plans. This panel will consider whether these developments are making bankruptcy a more or less effective remedy for distressed businesses and their creditors.Robert B. Orgel (Moderator)Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP; Los AngelesLisa Hill Fenning Arnold & Porter LLP; Los AngelesRodger M. LandauLandau & Berger LLP; Los Angeles Teresa McMahonFTI Consulting, Inc; Chicago

10:30-10:45 a.m.Coffee BreakSponsored by Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP

10:45 a.m.-12:00 noonClash of the Titans: Intellectual Property Law Meets BankruptcyIntellectual property issues are permeating bankruptcy cases more than ever. This panel will explore the interplay between bankruptcy law and intellectual property rights, including the treatment of intellectual property as assets of the estate, or as executory contracts subject to assumption, assignment or rejection; the differences in the treatment of copyright, patent and trademark licenses under the Bankruptcy Code, and the rights that licensors and licensees retain after making section 365(n) elections.Jeffry A. Davis (Moderator) Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.; San DiegoDavid A. FidlerKlee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP; Los Angeles Katherine C. PiperSteptoe & Johnson LLP; Los AngelesJane Shay WaldIrell & Manella LLP; Los Angeles

12:00-1:15 p.m.Luncheon with Keynote Speaker Jerry Nickelsburg, Economist at UCLA Anderson Forecast Speaker sponsored by Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLPLuncheon sponsored by AlixPartners LLC Professor Nickelsburg returns to take a critical look at the progress of the economy over the past year, his own analysis and predictions regarding the economy of a year ago, and the future of the economy here in California and throughout the United States.

1:30-2:45 p.m.Some Like It Prepackaged: Are Prepackaged and Prenegotiated Plans the Wave of the Future? This panel will explore why prepackaged plans and prenegotiated plans are increasingly more common, how they are accomplished, when they are appropriate strategies, and the key elements and timeline of a successful prepackaged or prenegotiated plan. Peter J. Gurfein (Moderator) Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP; Los Angeles Nathan J. CookAlixPartners LLC; Los Angeles Debra A. RileyAllen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP; San DiegoStephen H. WarrenO’Melveny & Meyers LLP; Los Angeles

2:45-3:00 p.m.Coffee BreakSponsored by Loeb & Loeb LLP

3:00-4:15 p.m.The Great Debate: When Special-Purpose Real Estate Vehicle Entities Don’t Serve Their Special Purpose in Bankruptcy Two of the leading practitioners in our field engage in an appellate argument before a panel of U.S. bankruptcy judges addressing the cutting-edge issues arising from the bankruptcies of affiliated real estate entities financed by commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS” loans)—loans that are made to individual special-purpose vehicles (“SPVs”) that are supposed to be “bankruptcy remote” if not “bankruptcy proof.” This debate will address the central issues that flow from this common real estate finance mechanism, including whether the filing of chapter 11 cases by SPVs effectively should be precluded or dismissed as bad-faith filings, whether cases filed by members of an affiliated group of SPV entities should be treated as single-asset real estate cases or a consolidated business enterprise, and whether the use of consolidated cash-management systems for such enterprises in chapter 11 constitutes an improper de facto form of substantive consolidation, or whether they can otherwise be challenged by entity-specific secured lenders.PANEL MEMBERS

Richard L. Wynne (Moderator)Jones Day; Los Angeles

ADVOCATES

Isaac M. PachulskiStutman, Treister & Glatt, PC; Los Angeles Joseph A. Eisenberg Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro LLP; Los Angeles

JUDICIAL PANEL

Judges to be announced

4:15-6:00 p.m.Reception sponsored by Landau & Berger LLP and Crowe Horwath LLP

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRSDebra A. RileyAllen Matkins Leek Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP

Martin R. BarashKlee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP

Jeffrey M. ReisnerIrell & Manella LLP

JUDICIAL CHAIRHon. Barry RussellU.S. Bankruptcy Court (C.D. Calif.)

ADVISORY BOARDGary Adelson NachmanHaysBrownstein, Inc.

Russell A. Belinsky Chanin Capital Partners

Marc Bilbao Imperial Capital LLC

William A. Brandt, Jr. Development Specialists, Inc.

Richard W. Brunette Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

Jonathan A. Carson Kurtzman Carson Consultants LLC

Nathan Cook AlixPartners LLP

Jeffry A. Davis Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo P.C.

Lisa Hill Fenning Arnold & Porter LLP

Scott F. Gautier Peitzman, Weg & Kempinsky LLP

Michael H. Goldstein Greenberg Traurig, LLP

David B. Golubchik Levene, Neale, Bender, Rankin & Brill L.L.P.

Ronald F. Greenspan FTI Consulting

Howard Grobstein Grobstein, Horwath & Company LLP

Peter J. Gurfein Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP

Robbin L. Itkin Steptoe & Johnson LLP

Lance Jurich Loeb & Loeb LLP

Thomas R. Kreller Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP

Rodger M. Landau Landau and Berger LLP

Gregory O. Lunt Latham & Watkins LLP

Robert B. Orgel Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young, Jones & Weintraub PC

Victor A. Sahn Sulmeyer Kupetz

Prof. Judy B. Sloan Southwestern University School of Law

Victor A. Vilaplana Foley & Lardner LLP

Marc J. Winthrop Winthrop Couchot PC

Richard L. Wynne Jones Day

18th ANNUALAMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTEBANKRUPTCY BATTLEGROUND WESTADVISORY BOARD

Breakfast Sponsor18th Annual ABI Bankruptcy Battleground West Advisory Board

Morning Coffee Break SponsorKlee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP

Luncheon Speaker SponsorAllen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP

Luncheon SponsorAlixPartners LLC

Afternoon Coffee Break SponsorKlee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP

Reception Sponsors Landau & Berger LLP and Crowe Horwath LLP

Materials Sponsor Omni Management Group, LLC

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP

AlixPartners LLPArnold & Porter LLPBuchalter Nemer, PC

Chanin Capital Partners, a Duff & Phelps Company Crowe Horwath LLP

Development Specialists, Inc. Foley & Lardner LLP

FTI ConsultingGreenberg Traurig, LLP

Grobstein, Horwath & Company LLPImperial Capital LLC Irell & Manella LLP

Jones Day

Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP Kurtzman Carson Consultants, LLC

Landau and Berger LLPLatham & Watkins LLP

Levene, Neale, Bender, Rankin & Brill L.L.P. Loeb & Loeb LLP

Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo P.C.Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCoy LLP

NachmanHaysBrownstein, Inc.Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP Peitzman, Weg & Kempinsky LLP

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP Steptoe & Johnson LLPSulmeyerKupetz, APC Winthrop Couchot PC

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