Connecticut (CT) Securities CLE Course Catalog

This panel will examine creditors vs. creditors in liability-management transactions (Boardriders, Serta, Travelport, Trimark), collective actions and credit bidding (Speedcast, Alta Masa, Empire Generating, Allied), strict foreclosure in light of TIA 316(b) (CNH Diversified Opportunities v. Cleveland Unlimited), de facto claim-subordination (La Paloma), rights preserved for junior creditors under an intercreditor agreement (do the exceptions swallow the rule (Claires, Momentive)?), and practical considerations such as coordination agreements, unitranche facilities and CLOs in restructurings.

This panel will discuss common valuation challenges and responses, and provide insight into piecing together multiple valuation techniques. The panelists will also touch upon identifying reasonable comps for similar companies and precedent transactions, reliance on/restating projections, and where valuation and liquidation analyses blend together, including non-cash-flowing assets.

This panel also will cover topics ranging from access to courts, to the increased use of inherent judicial power, to virtual trials, to valuation and compromise in uncertain (unprecedented) times, to recent developments in avoidance actions.

Chesapeake Energy, an exploration and production company, filed for chapter 11 on June 28, 2020, in the Southern District of Texas and emerged from bankruptcy on Feb. 9, 2021. This session’s panelists, all of whom were involved in the bankruptcy court hearings, will contrast (in a non-advocating fashion) the different valuation methodologies used by the debtors’ and UCC’s valuation experts with the primary legal arguments raised by the debtors’ and UCC’s legal teams.

Join us to learn the basics of defined contribution retirement plan issues under ERISA, including 401(k) plans.

This panel will explore and navigate distressed-investing issues relating to sales of technology and IP under ? 363, and buyer identification in a virtual landscape.

This CLE webinar will examine the existing regulatory framework around "restricted securities," and the avenues available for their sale, including the Rule 144 safe harbor and other exemptions. The program will address the role of intermediaries in facilitating these transactions and interesting issues involving resales of shares in pre-IPO "unicorn" companies. The panel will also discuss the contractual restrictions that issuers often place on the transfer of restricted securities and opinion considerations.

A basic overview and examination of changes to key franchise items and provisions in 2020.

Join our distinguished panelists as they discuss the new dangers for seniors and vulnerable investors in the COVID-19 era and the nationwide response of regulators.