Arizona (AZ) Corporate Finance CLE Course Catalog

The panelists will discuss the relief granted by the People First Initiative and the effect of COVID-19 on enforced collection, collection alternatives, and strategies for individuals and small businesses to secure abatements of penalties and interest.

This panel will discuss the value and involvement of financial advisors and investment bankers in successful section 363 sales, as well as strategies for working with financial advisors and investment bankers to navigate negotiations of section 363 sale terms, maximizing recoveries, and handling ethical issues that may arise in section 363 sales.

Get a primer on the identification of intangible assets and how they have been and are currently taxed in the U.S. and abroad.

For any global organization, the integration of legal and finance departments is critical. While the CFO analyzes financial reports and the GC tends to address business and compliance issues - your ability to understand accounting and finance will better equip you to handle the business matters beyond compliance. The session will review the basics of corporate finance. You’ll also hear from in-house legal counsel how they interact with their accounting and finance team.

This session will focus on government contractors, the identification and liquidation of undisclosed assets, restructuring strategies apart from Sec. 363 sales, and the reorganization of small debtors.

This session will examine the management's role in Section 363 Sales. The panel will discuss the role of management in Section 363 sales, labor issues, and an overview of Section 1113.

This panel will discuss what strategies sponsors are using to retain control (or at least a stake) through the bankruptcy process, as well as the risks to sponsors, such as fiduciary duties; use of special committees as sword and shield; related-party transactions; sponsor affiliates purchasing debt in the portfolio company’s capital structure, as well as 10b-5 compliance; and selling or spinning off assets/business units (Caesars, Cengage, Nine West, PetSmart, Sears, Toys).

The panelists will tackle the domestic reach of a foreign stay (Sanjel); non-U.S. companies filing for chapter 11 and the consequences thereof (Ocean Fisheries); recognition of foreign judgments more generally; and recent cases filed in Canada (Concordia and the CBCA).

The panel will discuss the state of distressed and bankruptcy related investing, including where they currently see opportunities, their thoughts on the credit cycle, what may drive the next wave of bankruptcies, the potential effects and repercussions of the leveraged loan market, the role of CDS and the “empty creditor” dynamic, and the impact of BDC’s, CLO’s and direct lending firms.