Alexandria, Va.—Leading professionals and dealmakers will want to attend the 26th Annual “VALCON 2013: Restructurings, Reorganizations and Distressed Sales: Valuation Strategies and Opportunities,” taking place at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas, Feb. 20-22, 2013. Sponsored by the American Bankruptcy Institute, Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors and the University of Texas Continuing Legal Education program, the conference will feature up to 15 hours of CLE and 18 hours of CPE credit with the opportunity to take part in special valuation fundamentals and technical valuation breakout program tracks. This year’s program will also feature a field hearing on valuation issues by ABI’s Commission to Study Reform of Chapter 11. Sessions include: - Fundamentals of Valuation Analysis, Part I: Valuation Models - Fundamentals of Valuation Analysis, Part II: Applying the Model to Restructuring and Reorganization Stages - Fundamentals of Valuation Analysis, Part III: Testing the Model in Case Decisions and Other Scenarios - The Benefits and Costs of Bankruptcy: Update on Scholarly Research - Valuation of Contingent and Disputed Liability - Report Preparation in the Context of Daubert - Inside Look at Distressed Investing - Standard of Value - Misconceptions in Valuation: Collateral Value, Enterprise Value and Reorganization Value - Gallatin’s Revenge: Sovereign Debt Sustainability and Valuation in the Modern Era - Multi-National Restructurings: A Comparative View of Select Jurisdictions - Valuation, Restructuring and Taxes: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Viewing Valuation from the Bench – What Matters Most to Judges - Implications of Valuations from the Board of Directors’ Perspective - Primer on Financing Issues for Municipalities - Ethics Tales from the Front (and Side) For a program schedule and full list of speakers, please click here: http://www.abiworld.org/VALCON13/schedule.html For more information on the VALCON 2013 Conference, please visit http://www.abiworld.org/VALCON13. ### 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 more than 13,000 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.abiworld.org/conferences.html.