Chapter 15: Demystifying the Bankruptcy Code and Other Cross Border Insolvency Issues (FCIB Members Only)

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Cost: 

FCIB Members: FREE

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Registration Includes: One telephone and web connection at one physical location

Time

US: 11AM ET, 8AM PT, GMT -05:00

About the Webinar

Financially distressed foreign companies are taking advantage of a less well known Chapter of the Bankruptcy Code, Chapter 15, as part of their restructuring efforts.

This webinar is designed to demystify Bankruptcy Code Chapter 15's complexities, discussing how Chapter 15 works, what Chapter 15 filings are being used to accomplish, and practical advice for trade creditors when a foreign debtor files a Chapter 15 case.

There will also be a discussion of multinational debtors that file foreign insolvency proceedings abroad, how these proceedings interact with related Chapter 11 and 15 cases filed in the United States, and how trade creditors should be responding to these cases.

Instructor

Bruce Nathan, Esq. and Philip Gross, Esq.

Bruce S. Nathan, member in the Lowenstein Sandler LLP's Bankruptcy, Financial Reorganization & Creditors' Rights Group, has about 30 years experience in the bankruptcy and insolvency field. Bruce is a recognized national expert on trade creditor rights and the representation of trade creditors in bankruptcy and other legal matters. He has represented trade and other unsecured creditors, unsecured creditors' committees, secured creditors, and other interested parties in many of the larger Chapter 11 cases filed. Bruce also negotiates and prepares letters of credit, guarantees, security, consignment, bailment, tolling and other agreements for the credit departments of institutional clients.

He regularly speaks at conferences held by FCIB and the NACM as well as many credit groups on bankruptcy, insolvency, and creditor's rights issues. He is a regular contributor to NACM's Business Credit, a contributing editor of NACM's Manual of Credit and Commercial Laws, and co-author of The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005: An Overhaul of U.S. Bankruptcy Law, published by NACM.

Philip Gross counsels secured and unsecured creditors, debtors and committees in commercial bankruptcy proceedings, as well as provides banks, funds and other clients with structuring and out-of-court advice. Philip guides clients through all phases of bankruptcy matters, from pre-bankruptcy negotiations and first-day hearings through plan confirmation and beyond. He has extensive experience in national contested bankruptcy hearings and trials, Chapter 15 recognition and Chapter 9 municipality proceedings, and bankruptcy appeals at the federal district and circuit court levels.

Prior to joining Lowenstein Sandler, Philip was an associate at Kaye Scholer LLP in New York City. He served as the 2006 Milton Pollack Fellow in the Southern District of New York (SDNY), where he worked with the Honorable Loretta A. Preska, chief judge of the United States District Court for the SDNY, and former Attorney General/SDNY Chief Judge Michael B. Mukasey to draft a report for district court judges on issues and challenges that arise in high-security and terrorism trials.

Webinar Access

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Accreditation Points

Participants earn 1 Education and 1 Participation Point towards the International Certified Credit Executive (ICCE) certification/recertification.