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BAPCPA 2006 Learning Library

5-CD Set, Written Materials, Plus Bonus Audio CD -- 6 CDs Total, More than 7 Hours of Training

Hosted By : Beard Group Law and Business Publishers

The Beard Groups new BAPCPA Learning Library offers you and your staff fast and easy training on BAPCPAs most important business provisions.

The Librarys five audio CDs and detailed written materials prepared by three of the nations top Chapter 11 experts cover:

· Major new roles and responsibilities for Creditors Committees
· Leasing strategies for commercial tenants and landlords
· New rules for KERPs and executive bonuses
· Changes to cross-border insolvencies under the new Chapter 15
· Impact of BAPCPA on intellectual property claims

Each audio CD represents a Beard Audio Conference broadcast during this groundbreaking first year of the new Bankruptcy Code. You get the full content of each conference including the speakers full presentation materials plus answers to audience questions raised during the lively Q&A sessions.

LIMITED TIME BONUS: Order today and receive a free bonus CD: BAPCPA One Year On: Lessons Learned and Outlook. Hear Stephen Selbst, head of McDermott Will & Emerys New York bankruptcy practice, and the Honorable Louis M. Phillips (retired), summarize and update you on BAPCPAs landmark first year. To receive this free bonus CD, place your BAPCPA Learning Library order today.

Your BAPCPA Learning Library includes these five audio CDs:

1. New Responsibilities of Creditors Committees under BAPCPA

76-minute recording presented by Thomas J. Salerno, Co-Chair of the Reorganization and Restructuring Practice at Squire, Sanders & Dempsey
· Impact of new information sharing requirements. How can committees best keep non-members informed and still protect confidential information?
· Expanded judicial powers for deciding committee make-up
· Challenges to the attorney-client privilege presented by the new disclosure obligations

2. When Tenants File: A Landlords Survival Kit under BAPCPA
Today's Lease Rejection, Assumption and Assignment Strategies

72-minute recording presented by David R. Kuney, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
· New code provisions designed to increase landlords leverage
· Important new lease rejection strategies
· Finality and the lack of appeal in section 363 sales

3. Changes to Cross-Border Insolvencies
Opportunities and Perils under the New Chapter 15

93-minute recording presented by Evan C. Hollander, Partner, White and Case
· How the new Chapter 15 makes the U.S. code more compatible with other international regulations
· Enhanced roles and responsibilities of foreign representatives
· Hidden opportunities for both debtors and creditors

4. Key Employee Retention Plans (KERPs) under BAPCPA
New Legal Strategies for Retaining Executives at Troubled Companies
58-minute recording presented by Thomas J. Salerno, Co-Chair of the Reorganization and Restructuring Practice at Squire, Sanders & Dempsey
Overview of restrictions on KERPs and bonuses to insiders
Possible loopholesor, When is a KERP not a KERP?
Key post-BAPCPA decisions, including Dana, Calpine, Refco, Pliant, Musicland, FLYi, Nobex, Leaseway Motor Transport, and others

5. Clash of the Titans: Bankruptcy vs. IP Rights
Who Wins When Bankruptcy and Intellectual Property Laws Conflict?

76-minute recording presented by David R. Kuney, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
· Bankruptcy rules and concepts that impact IP rights
· Why non-exclusive licenses are considered executory contracts
· Claims for unauthorized post-petition use of IP

Order your BAPCPA Learning Library today for $975 and save 33% from the price of purchasing each CD separately. Order now and youll also receive your free bonus 6th CD, BAPCPA One Year On: Lessons Learned and Outlook, a first-year overview of major developments, presented by Stephen Selbst and Judge Phillips. With this specially discounted package, you and your staff will receive a total of six audio CDs, time-saving written materials with case citations, and more than seven hours of expert training on the new Bankruptcy Code.

Dont need the entire BAPCPA Learning Library? You may order any conference CD individually for $295 (including shipping and handling) by selecting your preferred topic from the Past Audio Conferences on Audio CD section on the homepage of this website.

Speaker(s):

	David R. Kuney Sidley Austin LLP
David R. Kuney is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Sidley Austin LLP. He represents both debtors and creditors in complex Chapter 11 cases, including complex partnership cases, retail bankruptcies, real estate bankruptcies and corporate cases. He has also had extensive litigation and appellate experience and has served as lead counsel in both jury and non-jury civil matters throughout the United States. David is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law School, where he teaches a class on Bankruptcy and Creditors Rights. Hes been ranked in Chambers USA as a Leading Bankruptcy Attorney in Washington and as an intellectual leader in bankruptcy law. He is the author of the book, "Bankruptcy Issues for Commercial Landlords, Tenants and Mortgages."
	Evan C. Hollander White & Case
Evan C. Hollander is a partner with White & Cases bankruptcy and restructuring group in New York City. He regularly represents both debtors and creditors in complex Chapter 11 cases and out of court restructurings as well as parties interested in acquiring assets of troubled companies. Evan's practice also focuses on the structuring of commercial transactions to reduce or eliminate risk and on the preparation of insolvency related legal opinions. Recent representations include: numerous aircraft finance parties in the Northwest Airlines and Delta Airlines bankruptcy cases; Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Administrative Agent in respect of the restructuring of two credit facilities secured by sixteen Boeing 747 freighter aircraft operated by Atlas Air, Inc.; Wilmington Trust Company, in its capacity as Indenture Trustee for in excess of $24 billion of senior unsecured WorldCom bonds and as a member of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the WorldCom bankruptcy; BNY Western Trust, as Indenture Trustee for in excess of $3.6 billion of First and Refunding Mortgage Bonds of Pacific Gas and Electric Company; the senior secured lenders of The Resort at Summerlin, L.P., the owner and operator of The Regent Las Vegas, a luxury hotel, casino and spa complex in Las Vegas, Nevada; Environmental Systems Products Holdings, Inc., a multinational emissions testing and equipment manufacturer in the out-of-court restructuring of in excess of $600 million of senior secured and unsecured subordinated debt obligations of the company, and in the subsequent refinancings of the restructured debt; the debenture holders of Innovative Clinical Solutions, Ltd., a publicly traded clinical trials and healthcare network management company in connection with the company's pre-packaged Chapter 11 plan; the senior secured lenders of InaCom Corp., which had been a leading single-source provider of information technology products and technology management services, in the company's liquidating Chapter 11 case; the senior secured lenders of Philip Services, Inc., in the US/Canadian restructuring of the integrated metals recovery and industrial services company pursuant to Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and the Canadian Companies Creditors' Arrangement Act; and International Wireless Communications Holdings, Inc., an owner of interests in various cellular and other wireless telecommunications companies in Asia and Latin America in its Chapter 11 reorganization.
	Stephen B. Selbst McDermott Will & Emery
Stephen Selbst is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery and head of the firms New York bankruptcy practice. He has represented debtors, secured creditors, bondholders and distressed investors in Chapter 11 cases for more than 20 years. In recent engagements, he served as co-counsel to Parmalat USA in its successful reorganization, and he currently serves as counsel to St. Vincents Catholic Medical Centers of New York and to AMBAC Assurance Corp. in the Delta Airlines case.
	The Honorable Louis M. Phillips Partner, Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan LLP
The Honorable Louis M. Phillps is the retired Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. During his tenure, he authored numerous opinions of first impression of Louisiana state law and bankruptcy law, and was the author of a number of opinions that ultimately were adopted by the Fifth Circuit and other courts as the law of those courts. He also presided over the first conversion to a totally electronic filing and docketing system within the Federal Courts of the United States. Now he is a partner with the law firm of Gordon, Arata, McCollam, Duplantis & Eagan, LLP, in Baton Rouge. There he serves as the leader of the firm's Insolvency and Bankruptcy Practice Group. Since 1988, Judge Phillips has held the position of Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law at the Louisiana State University Law Center. He also is the permanent chair of the annual Bankruptcy Law Seminar sponsored by the Louisiana State University Center for Continuing Professional Development, a program he developed and has chaired since 1995. He is a contributing editor to the Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice 2nd, and is the author of many articles for law reviews and other periodicals.
	Thomas J. Salerno Squire Sanders & Dempsey
Thomas J. Salerno is a partner in, and co-chair of, the Reorganization and Restructuring Group in the Phoenix office of the international law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. He also serves as chair of the firms International Insolvency Practice Group. For more than 20 years, he has represented creditors committees, debtors, lenders and other parties in complex Chapter 11 reorganizations involving public debt and equity securities throughout the U.S. He also has represented parties in insolvency proceedings in the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Germany and the United Kingdom. He has written or co-authored several books, including The Executive Guide to Corporate Bankruptcy, published by the Beard Group. He has been included in The Best Lawyers of America since 1992 and was named one of 12 Outstanding Bankruptcy Lawyers by Turnarounds & Workouts.

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