VALCON 2010: Restructurings, Reorganizations and Distressed Sales: Valuation Strategies and Opportunities
Panelists in the session "Methodologies of Valuing Financial Claims" will discuss valuation issues that are common when assessing life settlements and viatical settlements. Panelists will include Robert Parrino, Ph.D. of the University of Texas at Austin Red McCombs School of Business in Austin and Robert K. Conklin of Business Valuation Advisors LLC in Plano, Texas. Please click the link below to view the materials.
Methodologies of Valuing Financial Claims
Panelists in the session "Company-Specific Risk Premiums: Application and Methods" will discuss distressed companies and different methods of calculating risk versus return. Paul N. Shields of LECG, LLC in Salt Lake City will moderate. Panelists will will include Grant W. Newton of Pepperdine University and AIRA in Medford, Ore., Roger J. Grabowski of Duff & Phelps LLC in Chicago and Bernard Pump of Deloitte Financial Advisory Services, LLP in Chicago. Please click the link below to view the materials.
Company-Specific Risk Premiums: Application and Methods
The session "An Analysis of Valuation Reports Issued in the Last Two Years" will offer information about additional risk factors that are now often considered for business valuations. Joseph A. DiSalvatore of Huron Consulting Group in New York will moderate. Panelists will include Grant W. Newton of Pepperdine University and AIRA in Medford, Ore., Anthony V. Aaron of Ernst & Young in Los Angeles, Allen Arnett of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Chicago, Neil J. Beaton of Grant Thornton LLP in Seattle and Stamos C. Nicholas of Deloitte Financial Advisory Services, LLP in New York. Please click the link below to view the materials.
An Analysis of Valuation Reports Issued Over the Past Two Years
Panelists in the session "Playing to Win: Effective Valuation Analysis and Strategies for Restructurings, Reorganizations and Distressed Sales" will present different methods of valuating loans, middle-market deals and default trends. Panelists will include Thomas E. Lumsden of FTI Consulting, Inc. in San Francisco, Barry M. Monheit of FTI Palladium Partners, Inc. in Phoenix, Harry A. Perrin of Vinson & Elkins LLP in Houston, Andrew I. Silfen of Arent Fox LLP in New York, Kaaran E. Thomas of McDonald Carano Wilson, LLP in Reno, Nev. and J. Scott Victor of SSG Capital Advisors, LLC in West Conshohocken, Pa. Donald S. Bernstein of Davis Polk & Wardwell, LLP in New York will moderate. Please click the link below to view the materials.
Panelists in the session "How to Attract DIP and Emergence Capital" will discuss DIP history and returns as well as what to expect in the near future. Peter S. Kaufman of Gordian Group, LLC in New York will moderate. Panelists will include D. Bobbitt Noel Jr. of Vinson & Elkins, LLP in Houston, Deirdre A. Martini of Wachovia Capital Finance in New York, James A. Roche of GSO Capital Partners in New York and Durc A. Savini of Miller Buckfire & Co., LLC in New York. Please click the link below to view the materials.
How to Attract DIP and Emergence Capital
The session "Valuation Case Law Update: Legal and Financial Perspectives" will present recent cases as well as the different perspectives and reactions from both the debtor and creditor to those cases. Jane Lee Vris of Vinson & Elkins LLP in New York will moderate. Panelists will include D. Bobbitt Noel Jr. of Vinson & Elkins LLP in Houston, Martin J. Bienenstock of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP in New York and Evelyn H. Biery of Fulbright & Jaworski LLP in Houston. Please click the link below to view the materials.
Valuation Case Law Update: Legal and Financial Perspectives
Panelists in the session "Restructurings and the Media Sector" will talk about recent advertising trends, the changing advertising medium and its effect on the newspaper industry. Panelists will include Kaaran E. Thomas of McDonald Carano Wilson, LLP in Reno, Nev., Paul Conway of Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. in New York, David L. Eaton of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Chicago and Thomas E. Hill of Alvarez and Marsal in Chicago. Thomas J. Allison of Mesirow Financial Consulting, LLC in Chicago will moderate. Please click the link below to view the materials.
Restructurings and the Media Sector
Panelists speaking on the panel "Who Bears the Ultimate Risk? General Growth, Substantive Consolidation, Intercompany Claims and the Use of Cash Collateral" will discuss recent cases that have impacted substantive consolidation, the Intercompany Claim Protocol and related issues. Marcia L. Goldstein of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York will moderate. Panelists will include Kaaran E. Thomas of McDonald Carano Wilson, LLP in Reno, Nev., Michael H. Goldstein of Greenberg Traurig, LLP in Santa Monica, Calif., Robert J. Keach of Bernstein Shur in Portland, Maine and J. Gregory St. Clair of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in New York. Please click the links below to view the materials by Mr. Keach and Mr. St. Clair.
If It Walks Like a Duck: Hybrid and Complex Substantive Consolidation Structures After New Century
Restructurings, Reorganizations and Distressed Sales: Valuation Strategies and Opportunities
