Financial Advisors Committee

ABI Committee News

The ABI Fee Study and its Effect on Financial Advisors

At the ABI Winter Leadership Conference in December 2007, the Financial Advisors Committee, in concert with the Investment Banking Committee, the Public Company and Claims Trading Committee, and the Professional Compensation Committee had the pleasure of presenting a joint educational session following the presentation of ABI’s landmark Professional Fee Study by Professor Stephen Lubben of Seton Hall University School of Law.

The following is a brief synopsis of the study’s methodology and findings, as well as Mr. Shapiro’s take on what the practical implication of the study is to the financial advisory community.

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ABI's Annual Spring Meeting: Committee Educational Session

ABI's 26th Annual Spring Meeting, the networking and CLE event of 2008, will be held April 3-6 at Washington, D.C.'s Renaissance Hotel in the Nation's Capital! Join us during cherry blossom season for exciting and informative sessions, including a luncheon keynote by Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr.

Financial Advisors, Investment Banking, Asset Sales & Technology and Telecommunications will meet in a joint educational session. The title of the session is "Everything that the Bankruptcy Professional needs to know about Intellectual Property."

The program will focus on three elements: 1) understanding the fundamentals of intellectual property law; 2) how intellectual property is typically valued; and 3) how this value is realized/monetized in a bankruptcy or restructuring case. The panel will consist of: 1) a prominent intellectual property attorney; 2) a prominent intellectual property valuation consultant; and 3) an investment banker with experience and focus on transactions involving significant intellectual property.

The committee will meet on Saturday, April 5, from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.