Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute’s (ABI’s) 20th annual New York City Bankruptcy Conference is scheduled for May 24 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 New York City to discuss timely bankruptcy issues. The conference features an expanded workshop format: Each of the six concurrent breakout sessions will be presented twice with different panelists, offering attendees two 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.

Panel sessions include:

• Momentive Aftermath
• Creative Financing Structures
• Municipal Bankruptcies
• Cross-Border Bankruptcy Issues
• Third-Party Releases
• Mediation
• International Finance and Restructuring Issues
• Avoidance Actions Update
• Latin America Update
• Creditor Group Participation
• Lessons Learned from Retail
• Engaging and Paying Contingency Counsel in Bankruptcy Post-Jevic

Approval for 6.75 hours of general CLE credit, including 1.25 hours of ethics, are pending in states calculating CLE on a 60-minute hour, and 8 hours of general CLE credit, including 1.5 hours of ethics, are pending in 50-minute-hour states.

Timothy Graulich of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Sean A. Gumbs of FTI Consulting, Inc. are the program chairs for the conference. Bankruptcy Judge Sean H. Lane (S.D.N.Y.) serves as the judicial chair.

Press interested in attending the New York City Bankruptcy Conference should contact ABI Public Affairs Manager John Hartgen at (703) 894-5935 or [email protected].

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 12,000 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.