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/.

Bondholders and Security Interests and Use of Remote Structures

Date
2024-09-09

The following session took place during the Latin America Symposium in September 2024. This panel will describe various Mexican law security devices and how they operate, explore their implications for bondholders and other creditors of a debtor, and discuss some of the enforcement issues that have arisen in both bankruptcy and nonbankruptcy contexts. All sessions from this conference can be accessed at https://cle.abi.org/.

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Restructuring Abroad vs. Plenary Chapter 11

Date
2024-05-09

The following session took place during the 2024 New York City Bankruptcy Conference in May 2024. This session will discuss the benefits and drawbacks of restructuring under chapter 11 as opposed to under a foreign restructuring scheme. The panelists include a restructuring lawyer who is familiar with the popular European restructuring schemes. All sessions from this conference can be accessed at https://cle.abi.org/.

Cross-Border Recovery in Fraudulent Schemes

Date
2024-04-20

The following session took place during the Annual Spring Meeting in April 2024. Ponzi and other fraudulent schemes continue to proliferate. Many of these schemes, event if primarily targeted at Americans, operate using offshore entities in the Caribbean. As a result, resolving such schemes typically involves domestic receiverships or bankruptcy coupled with offshore liquidation proceedings. The victims’ recoveries may vary widely depending on whether the distribution of the scheme’s remaining assets is determined by U.S. bankruptcy law, U.S. common law or foreign law.

ABI-Live: Directors' Duties Across Borders in the Insolvency Zone: Episode 2

Date
2024-02-14

The following session took place during ABI-Live Webinar in February 2024. This is the second in a series of webinars that will cover key jurisdictions around the globe, focusing on developments you and your clients need to consider when thinking about bankruptcy-type proceedings in foreign jurisdictions. What you don’t know may hurt your clients, and you can’t just assume that the same rules apply as in the U.S. For this second webinar, the panelists will be examining the situation in Brazil, Canada, the Caymans and Mexico.

State Law Receiverships as a Bankruptcy Alternative and a Necessity for Cannabis-Related Businesses

Date
2024-01-24

The following session took place during the 2024 Caribbean Insolvency Symposium in January 2024. Receiverships under state law have become an increasingly popular and meaningful alternative to bankruptcy, specifically when there are events of fraud, misappropriations of assets and related regulatory-body involvement.