Valuation

Alexandria, Va. — Leading professionals and dealmakers will want to attend the “VALCON 2016: Emerging Valuation Issues in Bankruptcy and Beyond” conference, taking place at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas March 14-16, 2016. Sponsored by the American Bankruptcy Institute, the Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors and the University of Texas Continuing Legal Education program, the conference will feature up to 14.25/17 hours of CLE/CPE credit, including 1 hour of ethics, with the opportunity to take part in special valuation fundamentals and technical valuation breakout program tracks. Stephen B. Darr of Huron Consulting Group Inc. (Boston) and Jay M. Goffman of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (New York) are the co-chairs for the conference.

Sessions include:

Track A: Valuation Fundamentals

• Fundamentals of Accounting and Finance for Distressed Companies
• Fundamentals of Valuation and Methodologies
• Case Study: An Interactive Negotiation of a Distressed Company Restructuring

Track B: Technical Valuation Issues

• Proper Structuring on the Front End
• Estimating the Cost of Capital When Determining a Fair Valuation for Solvency Assessments
• Use of Derivatives and Probabilistic Methods in Bankruptcy, Workouts and Insolvency Matters

General Sessions include:

• ABI Commission Report: Proposed Amendments and Their Impact on Valuation
• Current Issues in Valuing Intellectual Property
• Valuation in Municipal Restructurings: Constitutional, Legal and Practical Issues
• Detroit Then and Puerto Rico Now: The Similarities and the Differences
• Valuation of Middle-Market Companies
• Valuation and Distressed Investment Strategies
• Judicial Panel
• Hot Topics in Valuation
• Ethics: Retention and Compensation of Professionals

For a program schedule and full list of speakers, please click here.

Members of the press looking to attend the VALCON 2016 conference should contact ABI Public Affairs Manager John Hartgen at 703-894-5935 or [email protected].

For more information on the VALCON 2016 Conference, please visit

http://www.abi.org/events/valcon-2016-emerging-valuation-issues-in-bankruptcy-and-beyond.

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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 more than 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.