The recordings below are curated from ABI's catalogue of recorded educational sessions from live conferences and webinars, and are updated regularly. The full catalogue can be viewed at https://cle.abi.org/.

Issues Facing Community and Critical-Access Hospitals: What Is the Answer, and When Is It Too Good to Be True?

Date
2019-02-09

The following session took place during Caribbean Insolvency Symposium in February 2019. What are critical-access hospitals, and why are they important? This panel discusses alternative solutions to producing additional cash flow for failing hospitals, which need to be closely scrutinized by health care professionals familiar with licensing, reimbursement, anti-kickbacks and patient-brokering limitations.

ADR in Cross-Border Insolvency Cases

Date
2019-02-09

The following session took place during Caribbean Insolvency Symposium in February 2019. This panel will discuss the role that alternative dispute resolution (ADR) can and does play in bankruptcy, starting with the tension between bankruptcy and ADR, as all ADR processes conflict with bankruptcy’s goal of centralizing estate administration into a single proceeding. In the U.S., this tension is most prevalent when a creditor seeks to enforce a pre-petition arbitration agreement. The panel will next examine the role that mediation plays in U.S.

Blockchain, Bitcoin and Beyond: Getting Current on Digital Currency

Date
2019-02-08

The following session took place during Caribbean Insolvency Symposium in February 2019. This panel will discuss blockchain and cryptocurrency, focusing on the basic terminology and how various agencies of the U.S. government treat cryptocurrency, in particular the Internal Revenue Service, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The panel will then examine how security interests in cryptocurrency are perfected under Article 9, and whether transfers of cryptocurrency can be avoided pursuant to 11 U.S.C.

Chapter 15 Update: Discovery, Drawbridge, Venue, Parallel Cases and Other Hot Topics in Cross-Border Cases

Date
2019-02-08

The following session took place during Caribbean Insolvency Symposium in February 2019. This panel will discuss recent chapter 15 and cross-border cases, including those involving the scope of discovery available to foreign representatives, § 109 eligibility, venue issues and parallel case concerns. The panel will also discuss logistical and practical solutions in running chapter 15 cases. All sessions from this conference can be accessed at https://cle.abi.org/.

Troubled Non-U.S. Airlines Landing in Chapter 11: The Inside Story

Date
2022-11-19

The following session took place during International Insolvency Forum in November 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has plunged the global aviation industry into its deepest crisis ever, with no recovery in sight. What happens next? This panel will look into what's happened so far and what to expect in the year(s) to come. All sessions from this conference can be accessed at https://cle.abi.org/

The New Europe: The Reality of Working Together

Date
2020-11-19

The following session took place during International Insolvency Forum in November 2020. COVID-19 made the Europeans discover that they are able to work together! The measure of the recovery funds is the evidence. The working together is a new reality? How will UK react to this after Brexit? How will the USA and China look at this? All sessions from this conference can be accessed at https://cle.abi.org/.

Emerging from the COVID-19 Disruption: The Need for a National Emergency Restructuring Entity

Date
2020-11-19

The following session took place during International Insolvency Forum in November 2020. This panel will discuss a proposed solution for a response to the need for funding to recapitalize and provide liquidity to viable businesses seeking to emerge from the disruption. All sessions from this conference can be accessed at https://cle.abi.org/.