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HON. LOUISE DECARL ADLER

LOUISE DeCARL ADLER is a judge of the United States BankruptcyCourt for the Southern District of California, having been appointed in1984. In January 2001, she completed a five-year term as Chief Judge.She served as the first female President of the National Conference ofBankruptcy Judges (1994-95). She was a member of the Board ofDirectors of the American Bankruptcy Institute. She is a fellow in theAmerican College of Bankruptcy and a member of the InternationalInsolvency Institute (Ill).

Among the notable cases handled by Judge Adler have been theChapter 11 Reorganizations of the Roman Catholic Diocese for SanDiego and Imperial Counties; Maruko, Inc., the first coordinatedinternational reorganization with Chapter 11 cases filed in both theUnited States and Japan; Thrifty Oil Co.; Leap Wireless International (anational cell phone company and its 65 related companies) and thesuccessful reorganization of the San Diego Symphony.

Judge Adler was a member of the Working Group on InstitutionalCapacity for the 2000 World Bank Insolvency Initiative and a memberof the World Bank Working Group on the Treatment of the Insolvencyof Natural Persons. She is a co-author of “International Insolvency”(Federal Judicial Center, 2001) a reference book for bankruptcy judges;a contributing author to S. L. Bufford, “United States InternationalInsolvency Law 2008-2009” (Oxford University Press, 2009) and theauthor of “Managing the Chapter 15 Cross-Border Insolvency Case: APocket Guide for Judges”, (Federal Judicial Center, 2011; rev'd. 2014).

MondayOctober 29, 2018

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PATRICK ANG

PATRICk ANG is the Deputy Managing Partner of Rajah & TannSingapore. He is also the Chief Executive Officer of Rajah & Tann Asia.

Patrick has over two and a half decades of experience handling bothcontentious and noncontentious matters. One of his key areas ofexpertise is in corporate restructuring and insolvency, acting forfinancial institutions and companies in many major and publicisedcases.

In March 2018, he was inducted into the prestigious American Collegeof Bankruptcy as a Fellow, making him the only Singaporean (and thefourth Asian lawyer) in this honorary public service association ofbankruptcy and insolvency professionals.

Patrick is globally regarded as a market-leading lawyer, having beennamed in prominent legal directories like Chambers Global, ChambersAsia Pacific, IFLR1000 and The Legal 500 Asia Pacific. Chambers AsiaPacific (2018) describes him as a “widely respected practitioner” and“one of the leaders in the area.” He has been recognised by BestLawyers since 2015 for Insolvency and Reorganisation law, and isidentified as one of the world’s top 25 Thought Leaders forRestructuring & Insolvency by Who’s Who Legal since 2017, garneringpraise for his “truly outstanding” expertise in contentious and non-contentious restructurings and insolvencies.

Patrick is the Co-Chair of G36 INSOL International. He was the LawSociety of Singapore’s representative on the Ministry of LawInsolvency Law Reform Committee; some of the recommendationsmade by the Committee have led to the recent amendments to theSingapore Companies Act which came into effect last year. These willalso feature in the new Omnibus Insolvency Act expected to beenacted later this year.

Patrick Ang is a principal subject examiner for the Singapore Instituteof Legal Education Post Graduate Course on Insolvency Law since itsinception. He is also the Principal Subject Examiner for the ForeignPractitioners Examinations on Insolvency by the Singapore Institute ofLegal Education.



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AGUSTÍN BERDEJA-PRIETO

AGUSTíN BERDEJA-PRIETO is the founding partner of Berdeja yAsociados, S.C. Mr. Berdeja has over 30 years of experience incorporate law, international financial and business transactions,mergers and acquisitions, debt restructurings and insolvency, projectfinancing and privatizations.

Mr. Berdeja graduated in 1981 from Universidad Iberoamericana, withhighest honors (Mención Honorífica). He was admitted to practice in1983 and obtained a Masters of Law (LL.M.) degree from HarvardUniversity’s Law School in 1984. In 1984-1985 he worked at the NewYork offices of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and then joinedChadbourne & Parke during 1985-1986.

He is a member of the Mexican Bar (Barra Mexicana, Colegio deAbogados) and the American Bar Association (Section of BusinessLaw). He is a member of the Board of Directors of the AmericanCollege of Bankruptcy and a member Emeritus of the Board ofDirectors of the International Insolvency Institute (III). Mr. Berdeja alsoserves as member or Secretary of several Boards of Directors.

He has been a speaker in numerous forums and has published articlesin prestigious law reviews and journals.

His native language is Spanish and he is fluent in English.



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HON. ROBERT D. BERGER

JUDGE ROBERT DEAN BERGER received his undergraduate degreesin history and political science from the University of kansas in 1983and his juris doctor degree from the Washburn University School ofLaw in 1986. Judge Berger was appointed by the United States Courtof Appeals of the Tenth Circuit as a United States Bankruptcy Judge forthe District of kansas on October 16, 2003, and he was reappointedon October 16, 2017. Judge Berger is a chapter author for Collier onBankruptcy. He is also an author for the kansas Bar Association’sBankruptcy Handbook tax chapter and is a co-editor of the kansas BarAssociation’s Family Law Handbook bankruptcy chapter. Judge Bergerhas authored articles for various publications, including The WashburnLaw Journal, the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, and the Journalof the Kansas Bar Association.Monday

October 29, 2018

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HON. MILDRED CABÁN

MILDRED CABáN was sworn in as a United States Bankruptcy Judgefor the District of Puerto Rico on March 19, 2010. She sat at theSouthwestern Divisional Office in Ponce, Puerto Rico until August 31,2011, and is currently sitting in Old San Juan. As of April 2018, she isserving as Chief Judge for the bankruptcy court. She serves as theFirst Circuit Representative for the Bankruptcy Judicial Advisory Groupof the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. She isappointed to the Federal Judicial Center’s Bankruptcy JudgesEducation Advisory Committee. Since 2013, she chairs the NCBJLiaison Committee for the Hispanic National Bar Association (“HNBA”).She is part of the District Examination Committee for the United StatesDistrict Court for the District of Puerto Rico. She was chair of thePublic Outreach Committee for the National Conference of BankruptcyJudges (“NCBJ”) in 2015-2016. She received her B.A. from BarnardCollege in 1983 and her J.D. from New York University School of Law in1986. She clerked for the Honorable Héctor M. Laffitte of the UnitedStates District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. In 1990, shebecame a bankruptcy practitioner at Brown Newsom & Córdova. Shewas a partner at Goldman Antonetti & Córdova, P.S.C., where her lawpractice focused on representing creditors in both commercial andconsumer bankruptcy cases. She has been a speaker on variousbankruptcy and consumer law topics for various organizations. Shehas judged trial and moot court competitions for the Puerto Rico TrialCompetition, the HNBA and the American Bankruptcy Institute (“ABI”).She is a member of the ABI, the Commercial Law League of America,the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation,the Judicial Counsel of HNBA and NCBJ. She is an advisory boardmember of C.A.R.E. (“Credit Abuse Resistance Education”) and speakson financial literacy matters to students of all age groups. Shereceived ABI’s 2014 CARE Volunteer of the Year Award. She is aSunday school teacher at her local church.

WednesdayOctober 31, 2018

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JENNY CLIFT

JENNY CLIFT is the Principal Legal Officer of the International TradeLaw Division, United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, which functions asthe Secretariat for the United Nations Commission on InternationalTrade Law (UNCITRAL). She is head of the Legislative Branch of theSecretariat and secretary of UNCITRAL’s Working Group V oninsolvency law. In the latter position, she has led the completion of anumber of insolvency texts, including the UNCITRAL Legislative Guideon Insolvency Law, parts one to four; the UNCITRAL Practice Guide onCross-Border Insolvency Cooperation; the Judicial Perspective on theModel Law on Cross-Border Insolvency and the revised Guide toEnactment and Interpretation of the Model Law on Cross-BorderInsolvency. Current work includes a model law on the recognition andenforcement of insolvency-related judgments (to be completed in2018), model legislative provisions on facilitating the cross-borderinsolvency of enterprise groups, legislative recommendations on theobligations of directors of enterprise group companies in the periodapproaching insolvency, and legislative recommendations on theinsolvency of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.

Prior to joining the United Nations in 1998, Jenny worked as a seniorlegal adviser for the Australian Attorney-General’s Department in thearea of international trade law and for five years was the Australiandelegate to UNCITRAL in the area of electronic commerce. She hasreceived INSOL International’s Scroll of Honour.



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HON. BERNICE B. DONALD

THE HONORABLE BERNICE B. DONALD, a Circuit Judge on the UnitedStates Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, received her law degreefrom the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law.Prior to being appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals in 2011, sheserved on the U.S. District Court for more than fifteen years. She iscurrently Chair of the American Bar Association (“ABA”) Center forHuman Rights and recently chaired a committee which published animplicit bias resource book for judges and practitioners titled,Enhancing Justice: Reducing Bias. Prior to this, she served as Chair ofthe ABA Criminal Justice Section, where she focused on issuesconcerning implicit bias and the collateral consequences ofincarceration. Having previously served as Secretary of the AmericanBar Association (ABA), she is currently a member of the ABA House ofDelegates and of the prestigious American Law Institute. JudgeDonald has been faculty at the National Judicial College, the FederalJudicial Center, and the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center &School.

Judge Donald recently served as faculty at the 11th Annual CriminalLaw Symposium at Texas Tech University School of Law. She alsoserved as faculty for the Federal Magistrate Judges Conference held inPortland, Oregon. She has served as Jurist in Residence at AmericanUniversity, Washington University, and the University of CincinnatiSchools of Law and will serve as Jurist in Residence at New YorkUniversity School of Law in the Fall of 2017.

In addition, she has served as faculty for international programs inRomania, Mexico, Turkey, Brazil, Bosnia, Jordan, Botswana, SouthAfrica, Namibia, Senegal, Rwanda, Tanzania, Russia, Egypt, Morocco,Uganda, Thailand, Armenia, Jamaica, Pakistan, kyrgyzstan, GreatBritain, Costa Rica, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

Judge Donald’s writings include the following: A Glimpse Inside theBrain’s Black Box: Understanding the Role of Neuroscience in CriminalSentencing, 85 FORDHAM L. REV. 481 (2016); Not Your Father’s LegalProfession: Technology, Globalization, Diversity, and the Future of LawPractice in the United States, 44 U. Mem. L. Rev. 645 (2014); The Not-So-New Normal of the Legal Profession: Facing and Confounding the Odds,23 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol’y & L. 1 (2014); and Immigrants and OtherCultural Minorities as Non-Traditional Plaintiffs: Culture as a Factor inDetermining Tort Damages, 92 JUDICATURE 220 (2009). Judge Donaldhas received over 100 awards for professional, civic, and communityactivities, including the Distinguished Alumni Award from theUniversity of Memphis, the Martin Luther king Community ServiceAward, and the Benjamin Hooks Award from the Memphis BarFoundation.

TuesdayOctober 30, 2018

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ETHICS FOLLIES

ETHICS FOLLIES was created in 2006 by the South/Central TexasChapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel (“ACC”) not only tofacilitate the open discussion of legal and business ethics issues, butalso to involve professionals in the creative process of creating bothan entertaining and educational presentation. The production is nowin its eleventh year of entertaining and educating with musicalparodies of popular Broadway shows, weaving into the plotlinesrelevant rules of ethical conduct and real life examples of the harmcaused by unethical behavior by attorneys and their clients. The high-energy and fast-paced exchange among characters creates anengaging “edutainment” experience. Many attendees can recall theethics issues they have seen acted out better than remembering anabstract concept that was read in a list of rules. The heightenedawareness of business and legal ethics issues increases ourmembership’s ability to provide valuable counsel and educate ourclients.

Ethics Follies is written and directed by former ACC Chapter PresidentLee Cusenbary with help from many of the ACC members. EthicsFollies has been seen by more than 20,000 attorneys and executivesthrough live shows, webcasts, and DVD viewings. The ethics programhas been featured by national conferences such as the InternationalAssociation of Corporate Counsel, the National Women Trial Lawyers,and the American Bar Association (and now, the National Conferenceof Bankruptcy Judges) and has provided training to multiple state andlocal bar associations. Ethics Follies has also trained Walmart’s eighthundred outside legal counsel at the SuperConference for corporatecounsel in Bentonville, Arkansas.

The net proceeds of Ethics Follies are donated to the CommunityJustice Program, the pro bono project of the San Antonio BarAssociation.



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SUSAN M. FREEMAN

SUSAN M. FREEMAN is a partner at Lewis Roca Rothgerber ChristieLLP, working primarily from its Phoenix, Arizona office. She graduatedfrom New York University School of Law in 1975 as a Root-TildenScholar, and holds a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College, withdistinction.

Ms. Freeman is a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference.She is a Fellow and former Director, Vice-President and Secretary ofthe American College of Bankruptcy. She is the Chair of the AmericanBar Association Business Bankruptcy Committee, and previouslychaired several Subcommittees. She is a Life Member of the AmericanLaw Institute. Ms. Freeman has been a certified specialist inbankruptcy law since 1985. She is a frequent author and lecturer,including authoring Chapter 172 of NORTON BANkRUPTCY LAW &PRACTICE on Professional Responsibility in Bankruptcy Cases and AreDIP and Committee Counsel Fiduciaries for Their Clients’ Constituents orthe Bankruptcy Estate? What is a Fiduciary, Anyway? 17 Amer. Bankr.Inst. L. Rev. 291 (Winter 2009).

In addition to her business bankruptcy law practice, Ms. Freeman is anappellate lawyer, and has briefed over 300 civil appeals and arguedover 100, many of which are bankruptcy appeals, including a U.S.Supreme Court appeal. She is a Fellow and former President of theAmerican Academy of Appellate Lawyers, and is the co-author of thecivil appeals chapter of the ARIZONA APPELLATE HANDBOOk. Shewas co-counsel for several law professors on amicus curiae briefs inTennessee Student Assistance Corp. v. Hood, 541 U.S. 440 (2004) andCentral Virginia Community College v. Katz, 126 S. Ct. 990, 1004 (2006),and she briefed and argued Hall v. United States of America, 132 S. Ct.1882 (2012).



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ROBERT VAN GALEN

ROBERT VAN GALEN is specialised in insolvency law with anemphasis on cross-border issues and is heading NautaDutilh’sInsolvency and Restructuring Group. He has been involved in virtuallyall major cases in the Netherlands over the past 25 years, such asBarings, Fokker, GTS, kPNQwest, Lehman, Yukos and OSX. He isfurthermore admitted to the bar of the Dutch Supreme Court and hasbeen involved in a number of important cases decided by the DutchSupreme Court.

NautaDutilh’s Insolvency and Restructuring Group has been listedalready for many years in the top tier in all the major league tablesand to the extent such tables also rank individuals, Robert isconsistently listed in the top tier. Chambers quotes him as “incrediblyclever and very academic, as well as very calm under fire. The star ofthe Netherlands in this field”.

Robert is past president of the European association of InsolvencyPractitioners, INSOL Europe and past president of the Dutchassociation of insolvency lawyers, INSOLAD. He is the Dutchrepresentative to UNCITRAL Working Group V.

He is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. He is presidentof the Amsterdam lawyers society (Praktizijnssociëteit).

Robert has published a substantial number of articles in legal journalsand contributions to legal books. He was the co-author of a report oncross-border insolvency law to the Netherlands Association forInternational Law (NVRI) and author of a report on groups ofcompanies for the Netherlands Association for Comparative andInternational Insolvency Law (NACIIL). He is member of the editingboard of the Dutch leading magazine on corporate law.



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DANIEL M. GLOSBAND

DAN GLOSBAND retired as an equity partner in Goodwin Procter LLPand is currently Of Counsel. He is a founder and principal ofCBInsolvency LLC, based in Swampscott, MA, which provides expertopinion, consulting, and mediation services in cross-border insolvencymatters. His entire career, beginning in 1969, has focused onsophisticated corporate insolvency matters and included the study andreform of international insolvency law.

He first worked on a significant cross-border case in 1983 and hassince represented foreign representatives, debtors and counterpartiesin connection with cross-border insolvency matters; has providedexpert testimony to courts in Bermuda, Hong kong, England andCanada; and has served in leadership, scholarly and legislativedevelopment activities including as: an adviser to the American LawInstitute’s Transnational Insolvency Project; a founding member of theInternational Insolvency Institute; head delegate of the InternationalBar Association to the Working Group on Insolvency Law thatproduced the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency; headdelegate of International Bar Association to the Working Group thatproduced the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Insolvency Law; advisorto the United States Department of State, Office of Legal Advisor,throughout the two UNCITRAL projects and on the drafting of Chapter15 of the Bankruptcy Code; lead draftsman (with Professor JayWestbrook of the University of Texas Law School) of the United Statesadaptation of the UNCITRAL Model Law, Chapter 15 of the UnitedStates Bankruptcy Code, Cross-Border and Other Ancillary Cases;conferee of the National Bankruptcy Conference and Chair of theCommittee on International Aspects (the Conference is a voluntary,non-profit, self-supporting organization of about sixty-five lawyers,law professors and bankruptcy judges who have achieved scholarlydistinction in the field of bankruptcy law whose purpose is to studythe operation of bankruptcy and related laws and proposals for theirreform; the Committee on International Aspects consults withCongressional staff on issues pertaining to cross-border insolvencyand proposes amendments to Chapter 15); faculty member forChapter 15 portion of International Insolvency Course at several lawschools; and author of Chapter 15 portions of Collier on Bankruptcy(16th Edition), Collier International Business Insolvency Guide, andCollier Bankruptcy Practice Guide.



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PATRICIA GODFREY

PATRICIA is a partner in the CMS London office Banking and Financeteam. She has been a Partner since 1991. Her practice area isrestructuring and insolvency where she has many years’ experienceadvising boards and corporates in challenging financial situations. Thisincludes advice on informal turnarounds and restructurings, formalinsolvency processes and related matters such as directors’ duties. Shehas developed a particular expertise advising on international andcross-border situations involving complex structures across a range ofjurisdictions including the Lehman Brothers collapse and Petroplus AG.

Market Feedback: Legal 500 - “experienced, market savvy, decisive”,Legal 500 - “always on top of her subject” and Legal 500 - “first classtechnical knowledge and communicates effectively”.

Memberships: Member (and past president) R3 (Association ofBusiness Recovery Professionals), Member (and past president) INSOLEurope, Fellow-American College of Bankruptcy (inducted 2012),Member (and former board director) III (International InsolvencyInstitute), Member & Officer of the IBA (International BarAssociation), Chair German British Chamber of Industry & Commerce,Vice Chair German British Forum and Member of the Risk & AdvisoryCommittee of Cockpit Arts – an award winning social enterprise andthe Uk's only business incubator for crafts people.



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NEIL GUPTA

NEIL GUPTA is a Director at SSG Capital Advisors. Neil works withinvestment banking clients on a wide range of transactions, includingmergers and acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalizations and privateplacements of both senior and subordinated debt and equity. Hisresponsibilities include buyer and investor relationship management,strategic advisory and overall management of the deal process. Priorto joining SSG, he advised the U.S. Treasury on its investment in theTroubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) as a research analyst atPiedmont Investment Advisors. He also worked as a consulting actuaryin the group benefits and health care practice at Watson WyattWorldwide.

Past client engagements include publicly traded, privately held, privateequity sponsored and family owned businesses across a broad rangeof industries.

Neil is a CFA Charterholder and holds a Certification in DistressedBusiness Valuation (CDBV). He is a member of the AmericanBankruptcy Institute, the Association for Corporate Growth and theTurnaround Management Association. He also serves on the Board ofDirectors of the Philadelphia chapter of the TMA and the Board ofDirectors for the Consumer Bankruptcy Assistance Project.

Neil received The M&A Advisor’s 8th Annual Emerging Leaders Awardin 2017.

Education:• University of North Carolina kenan-Flagler Business School, M.B.A.• Johns Hopkins University, B.S.



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GARY F. KENNEDY

GARY F. kENNEDY served as the Senior Vice President, GeneralCounsel and Chief Compliance Officer of American Airlines and AMRCorporation from January, 2003 until his retirement in January, 2014.As General Counsel, kennedy guided the airline through two of themost high profile events in the company’s history - the 2011bankruptcy filing and the 2013 merger with US Airways. Mr. kennedydirected the efforts to obtain government approval of the merger,including the defense of lawsuits filed by the Department of Justiceand multiple state attorneys general, and was called upon to testifybefore Congress to garner support for the merger.

As General Counsel, kennedy managed the Company's legal affairsworldwide, including complex commercial litigation, employmentlitigation, labor union disputes and corporate transactions. kennedyhas extensive experience dealing with US regulatory agencies,including the Department of Justice and the Department ofTransportation.

Prior to his role as General Counsel, kennedy served as Vice Presidentof the real estate and construction department at American. Withbillions of dollars at stake, kennedy was the chief strategist for thelease and construction of the company's airport facilities,maintenance facilities and office buildings worldwide.

Mr. kennedy serves as a member of the Board of PIMCO Funds, one ofthe country’s largest open-end fund complexes. In that capacity, heserves as co-chair of the valuation oversight committee and is amember of the audit and governance committees. Mr. kennedy alsoserves on the Board of the Marconi Group, a patent managementcompany located in Dallas, Texas. He also served as an adjunctprofessor of law at Southern Methodist University and Texas WesleyanUniversity.

Mr. kennedy is the author of a new book, published in February 2018,titled Twelve Years of Turbulence, the Inside Story of American Airlines’Battle for Survival.

Before arriving at American, kennedy was a litigator and bankruptcyattorney for several years in Salt Lake City. He is a 1977 Magna CumLaude graduate of the University of Utah and a member of Phi Betakappa. He received his Juris Doctorate from the University of UtahSchool of Law in 1980.

kennedy and his wife have four children and live in Dallas, Texas.



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HON. MICHELE J. KIM

MICHELE J. kIM was sworn in as a bankruptcy judge for the SouthernDistrict of Georgia on June 23, 2017. Her duty station is in Brunswick,Georgia. Michele is a graduate of the University of Georgia TerryCollege of Business, where she earned a BBA in international business.She obtained her law degree, with honors, from the University ofGeorgia School of Law.

After law school, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable John S.Dalis, the judge whom she succeeded. Michele also served as a lawclerk to the Honorable Anthony A. Alaimo, U.S. District Judge for theSouthern District of Georgia.

Prior to taking the bench, Michele was in private practice at king &Spalding LLP, where she focused on matters involving commercial realestate, financial restructuring, and regulatory compliance.


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HON. SANDRA KLEIN

JUDGE kLEIN was appointed to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for theCentral District of California in April 2011. Before her appointment tothe bench, Judge klein spent more than thirteen years with the U.S.Department of Justice. Most recently, she was the Acting AssistantDirector, Office of Criminal Enforcement of the U.S. Trustee Program,focusing nationally on the detection and prosecution of criminalconduct in the bankruptcy system. Judge klein was also a litigationassociate with O’Melveny & Myers LLP. She began her legal career asa judicial law clerk to the Honorable Lourdes G. Baird, Central Districtof California and the Honorable Arthur L. Alarcón, Ninth Circuit Courtof Appeals.

Judge klein received an MBA with honors from UCLA’s AndersonSchool of Management; a JD, magna cum laude, from Loyola LawSchool (LLS), where she served as Professor Laurie L. Levenson’sresearch and teaching assistant and as a Senior Note and CommentEditor for the International and Comparative Law Journal; and abachelor’s degree in music education, magna cum laude, from theUniversity of Lowell, Lowell, MA.

Judge klein is a co-leader of a Girl Scout Troop for homeless girls. Shecreated the Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles “Justice Patch Program”to help girls develop a sense of fairness, an understanding of why wehave laws and how laws can be changed, and the role of lawyers andjudges in the community. Judge klein is a member of the LLS Board ofGovernors; the Federal Bar Association, Los Angeles Chapter, Board ofDirectors; and the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles Boardof Governors. She is also the chairperson of the U.S. Bankruptcy Courtfor the Central District of California’s Community OutreachCommittee; a member of the Ninth Circuit’s Courts and CommunityCommittee; and a member of the National Conference of BankruptcyJudges’ Education Committee.


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MICHELE KORVER

MICHELE kORVER is the Digital Currency Counsel for the UnitedStates Department of Justice. With more than twenty-five years ofgovernment, law enforcement, and federal trial experience, Michelehas served in the Department of Justice since 2003 as an AssistantUnited States Attorney in the Miami, Florida, and Denver, Colorado,U.S. Attorney’s Offices. She has investigated and prosecuted hundredsof violations of federal criminal law in U.S. courts, with a focus oninternational criminal organizations, money laundering, cybercrime,drug trafficking, darknets, and digital currency.

In her role as Digital Currency Counsel at the Criminal Division’sMoney Laundering and Asset Recovery Section, Michele is a frequentspeaker and advisor to government entities on investigative andprosecutorial best practices in emerging financial technologies.

Prior to attending law school, Michele started her career as a SpecialAgent with the United States Secret Service, conducting financialinvestigations in their Miami Field Office. Michele clerked for UnitedStates District Judge William P. Dimitrouleas in the Southern District ofFlorida and received her J.D. from the University of Miami School ofLaw where she served as Managing Editor of the University of MiamiLaw Review.


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HON. WILLIAM J. LAFFERTY, III

WILLIAM J. LAFFERTY, III, is a United States Bankruptcy Judge in theNorthern District of California. He was appointed to the BankruptcyCourt in April 2011 and also serves on the United States BankruptcyAppellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit. He received his J.D. from theUniversity of California Hastings College of the Law and earned hisundergraduate degree at the University of California Berkeley.

Prior to his appointment to the Bankruptcy Court, Judge Lafferty was aDirector with Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin from1993 to 2011, joining the firm in 1987. His affiliations include: VicePresident, California Bankruptcy Forum; Past President, Bay AreaBankruptcy Forum; Past President, Bar Association of San Francisco,Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section; and Bankruptcy &Reorganization Practice Group.Tuesday

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TERRY MAXON

TERRY MAXON is an award-winning journalist who wrote fornewspapers in Dallas, Oklahoma City, and San Jose, Calif., for 42 years.He started out at the bottom as an obit/rewrite reporter for theOklahoma Journal and covered Oklahoma City government andOklahoma state government before becoming assistant city editor andcity editor.

In 1980, he moved to the Dallas Times Herald to report on Dallas citygovernment. In early 1983, he switched to the Dallas Morning Newswhere he covered city government and transportation for five years.

After a brief stay in California and the San Jose Mercury News, Maxonreturned to the Dallas Morning News in 1990 where he coveredtechnology, legal affairs, energy and, for some 20 years, airlines andaviation. He retired from the News in September 2015. Twelve Years ofTurbulence is his first book.



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TROY A. MCKENZIE

TROY A. MCkENZIE is Professor of Law at New York University Schoolof Law. His scholarly interests include bankruptcy, civil procedure,complex litigation, and the federal courts. From 2015 to 2017, he tooka leave of absence from NYU Law to serve as Deputy AssistantAttorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Departmentof Justice. From 2011 to 2015, he was Assistant Reporter to theAdvisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules of the Judicial Conference ofthe United States.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from PrincetonUniversity and his law degree from NYU Law. After graduation, heclerked for Judge Pierre N. Leval of the US Court of Appeals for theSecond Circuit and for Justice John Paul Stevens of the Supreme Courtof the United States. Before joining the faculty, Mckenzie was anassociate in the New York office of Debevoise & Plimpton.



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DR. LUIS MANUEL C. MÉJAN

DR. LUIS MANUEL C. MéJAN is currently a partial time professor andresearcher in the Law School of Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo deMéxico (ITAM). Dr. Méjan has been a Lawyer and professor for over 50years. Among other studies, he holds a Law degree from UniversidadAutónoma de Guadalajara, a Ph.D from the Universidad NacionalAutónoma de México, has a Masters Degree on Civic and SocialEducation.

After four years of free-lance Law practice, Dr. Méjan joined BancoNacional de México as a Lawyer of the Legal Department, workedthere for 30 years, occupying different positions like Executive VicePresident- Legal Counselor to the CEO, Deputy Secretary of theAdministrative Boards of Banco Nacional de México, S. A. and theFinancial Group Banamex Accival, S. A. de C.V.

May, 2000 to December 2009, Dr. Méjan acted as President ofMexico’s Federal Institute of Commercial Insolvency Specialists,(“Instituto Federal de Especialistas Mercantiles” or IFECOM) which isthe agency in charge of the administration of insolvency proceedings.He dedicated 2010 as a sabbatical doing some research on Insolvencylaw at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. In the academicfield, Dr. Méjan has been a Law professor since 1962 in differenteducational centers. Currently he teachs in the ITAM’s Law school andis member of the faculties of the graduate programs at theUniversidad Panamericana in Mexico, D. F. and Guadalajara.

Among his publications, Luis Manuel C. Méjan counts 13 books and anumber of papers and articles on insolvency matters published inseveral publications in Mexico and abroad.

Dr. Méjan is a member of the Mexican Delegation and other NGOs tothe UNCITRAL’s groups five: “Insolvency”; one, “MSMEs” and of theWorld Bank’s Task Force on Insolvency. He has been a consultant inspecific projects of the World Bank Group.



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HON. MICHAEL J. MELLOY

MICHAEL J. MELLOY attended Loras College, where he graduatedmagna cum laude. He graduated from the University of Iowa Collegeof Law with high distinction in 1974.

In January 1986, the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals appointed JudgeMelloy as United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District ofIowa. He served in that position until he was appointed to the UnitedStates District Court for the Northern District of Iowa in August 1992,by President George H. W. Bush. In February 2002, Judge Melloy wasappointed a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the EighthCircuit by President George W. Bush. Judge Melloy served as an activejudge of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals until February 1, 2013,when he assumed senior status.

While a federal judge, Judge Melloy has served on variousorganizations and committees, including: Board of the Federal JudicialCenter and member and former chair of its committee on AppellateJudge Education; past member and chair (appointed by Chief JusticeRehnquist) of the Bankruptcy Administration Committee of the UnitedStates Judicial Conference.



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ANN MILLER

ANN M. MILLER is a Managing Director in Cowen’s Special SituationsGroup. Ann has expertise in the public and private company sectors,working in both distressed and traditional M&A assignments. AtCowen, Ms. Miller is responsible for both executing mandates andobtaining new mandates with new and existing clients. In addition,she is responsible for client management relating to all of the SpecialSituations service offerings.

Prior to joining Cowen, Ms. Miller worked as a Director for HoulihanLokey in its Financial Restructuring practice and also previouslyworked as a Strategic Consultant and Valuation Advisor at EY.

Ms. Miller holds her Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) inFinance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received herMasters of Business Administration (MBA) from the University ofChicago. She also holds the designation of Chartered FinancialAnalyst.



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RUMI MORALES

RUMI MORALES is a pioneer in identifying, investing and cultivatingthe emerging technologies that will define our economy's nextgeneration.

An early specialist in digital currency, blockchain and distributedledger technologies, Rumi is also a leading early investor in artificialintelligence, deep learning, predictive analytics, and quantumcomputing as they will affect traditional industries.

A proven entrepreneur herself, Rumi established the Global MarketsInstitute during her tenure at Goldman Sachs, and also launched aleading economic research firm in Singapore. She began her career inventure capital in London, kuala Lumpur and New York, and hasinvested across three continents and lived in seven countries.

Currently based in Chicago, Illinois, Rumi is actively involved in thatcity’s burgeoning technology and entrepreneurial community.

An accomplished and dynamic public speaker, Rumi has presentedonstage at major conferences globally, and has been featured onBloomberg Television and Institutional Investor magazine. InstitutionalInvestor also noted her as one the “most powerful dealmakers infinancial technology” two years in a row, and Crain’s recognized her intheir esteemed “40 Under 40” list.

Rumi received her undergraduate degree from Wellesley Collegewhere she was elected to Phi Beta kappa, and received her MBA fromthe NYU Stern School of Business.


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HON. RICHARD A. PAEZ

JUDGE RICHARD A. PAEZ was appointed by President Clinton as aCircuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals on March 9, 2000.He is a member of the Court’s Executive Committee and former Chairof the Ninth Circuit’s Court-Council Committee on BankruptcyAppointments.

Prior to his appointment as a Circuit Judge, Judge Paez served as aDistrict Judge for the Central District of California from 1994 to 2000.He was appointed a District Judge by President Clinton. At the time ofhis appointment to the federal bench, he was a judge of the LosAngeles Municipal Court. He was appointed to the Municipal Court in1981 by former Governor Jerry Brown.

Judge Paez served as Presiding Judge of the Los Angeles MunicipalCourt in 1987. In 1991, then Chief Justice Malcolm Lucas appointedJudge Paez to the first of two terms on the California Judicial Council,the governing body of the California state court system. While a statecourt judge, Judge Paez was active in judicial administration and aregular faculty member of judicial education programs sponsored bythe California Center for Judicial Education and Research.

Judge Paez earned his B.A. from Brigham Young University in 1969 andreceived his J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley School ofLaw (Boalt Hall) in 1972. Following law school he was employed byCalifornia Rural Legal Assistance in Delano, California. In 1974 JudgePaez joined the staff of the Western Center on Law and Poverty in LosAngeles, California. From 1977 to 1981 he was employed by the LegalAid Foundation of Los Angeles.

Judge Paez maintains his chambers in Pasadena, California.



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PROF. CHRISTOPH G. PAULUS

I am a professor of law at the Law School of the Humboldt Universitätzu Berlin, Germany, a position I have held since 1994. From April 2008through March 2010, I have served as the Dean of the Law School. Iearned an LL.M. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1984and was a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander v. Humboldt-Stiftungat UC Berkeley in 1989 and 1990. Since 1998, I have served severaltimes as a Consultant to the International Monetary Fund (“IMF”) inWashington, D.C., where I prepared a brochure on “Orderly & EffectiveInsolvency Procedures”.

I am member of the International Insolvency Institute, of theAmerican College of Bankruptcy, of the International Academy ofCommercial and Consumer Law, of the International Association ofProcedural Law and – as an extraordinary member – of the InstitutoIberoamericano de Derecho Concursal. I have held guestprofessorships at Brooklyn School of Law (USA), in Cape Town (SouthAfrica), in Fukuoka (Japan), at Tongji University in Shanghai (China), atthe Université Pantheon-Assas in Paris (France), at the Lomonosow-University in Moscow (Russia), and at the University of Sydney(Australia). Moreover, I have been appointed as a Consultant of TheWorld Bank in Washington, D.C. regarding, among other things,insolvency laws and legislation in 2006. Since November 2006, I haveserved as Adviser of the German delegation for the United NationsCommission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) deliberations ongroup insolvency law.

For more than twenty years, I have taught courses on the GermanCode of Civil Procedure (ZPO), the German Civil Code (BGB), and onGerman and international insolvency law. I have publishedapproximately three hundred articles on topics that include civilprocedure, German, and international and comparative insolvencylaw, contract law, secured transactions, and legal history. For morethan fifteen years, I have worked on issues of sovereign default.

Further details of my career and an exhaustive list of my publicationsare available at: https://www.rewi.hu-berlin.de/de/lf/ls/pls/cp/pub.



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IAN T. PECK

IAN PECk is the chair of Haynes and Boone’s Restructuring section,Dallas Texas and has handled numerous complex Chapter 11bankruptcy cases, out-of-court workouts, and distressed mergers andacquisitions transactions across a broad array of industries.

Ian’s experience includes serving as lead counsel for a bankrupt bankholding company facing claims of over $2 billion and representing oneof the world’s largest generators and marketers of electricity in itssuccessful Chapter 11 reorganization. Ian also has extensiveexperience in middle-market cases, including representing amanufacturer and operator of helicopters in its successfulrestructuring, as well as guiding the largest retail liquor chain in Texasand a 400-store furniture retailer through the Chapter 11 process.Outside of the courtroom, Ian has helped several companiesrenegotiate their financial and contractual obligations to avoidcontentious litigation or lengthy reorganization proceedings.

Ian frequently speaks throughout the country on bankruptcy topicsand is active in the American Bankruptcy Institute, the TurnaroundManagement Association, and the Association of Insolvency andRestructuring Advisors.

Ian graduated from Vanderbilt University Law School, where he servedas an editor on the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. Ian holdsa Bachelor of Arts from the University of Oklahoma where hegraduated summa cum laude.



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HON. PAMELA PEPPER

PAMELA PEPPER received her undergraduate degree in theater fromNorthwestern University and her J.D. from Cornell Law School, whereshe was a notes editor on the Cornell Law Review and co-winner ofthe Sutherland Moot Court competition. She clerked for Frank M.Johnson, Jr. on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Between 1990and 1997, she was a federal prosecutor in Chicago and Milwaukee.From 1997 to 2005, she was a solo criminal defense practitioner. Sheholds a graduate certificate in dispute resolution from MarquetteUniversity, and has been an adjunct professor at Marquette LawSchool. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals appointed her to thebankruptcy bench for the Eastern District of Wisconsin on July 5, 2005,and she served as chief judge from July 1, 2010 to December 8, 2014.In May 2014, President Obama nominated her to a seat on the UnitedStates District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin; she wasconfirmed by the Senate on November 20, 2014, and sworn in to thedistrict court bench on December 8, 2014.

Pam is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, and formerlyserved as education director and chair of its Consumer BankruptcyCommittee, a member of the board of directors and a member of theeducation committee. She belongs to the National Conference ofBankruptcy Judges, having served a term as the Seventh Circuitrepresentative on the Board of Governors, and a term as secretary forthe 2013-14 year. She also has served on the national conferenceeducation committee, and chaired that committee for the 2014conference in Chicago. She completed two terms as an associateeditor of the American Bankruptcy Law Journal. She has served on theHuman Resources Advisory Council of the Administrative Office of U.S.Courts and currently serves on the OSCAR working group and theJudicial Data Working Group for the Administrative Office. She is amember of the Bankruptcy Rules Committee of the JudicialConference of the United States. She frequently speaks at FederalJudicial Center programs, and is a former member of the Center’sBankruptcy Judges’ Education Advisory Group. She speaks at barassociations across the country on topics such as the rules of evidencein bankruptcy, the intersection of criminal and bankruptcy law, andlitigation skills.



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WILLIAM J. PERLSTEIN

WILLIAM J. PERLSTEIN is Senior Deputy General Counsel at BNYMellon in New York. Bill joined the Bank in June 2015 and isresponsible for regulatory engagements, government affairs, andcorporate legal services including M&A, cybersecurity andoutsourcing. He worked on the Bank’s 2017 Resolution Plansubmitted to the Federal Reserve and the FDIC and has conferred withregulators and participated in programs in the US, Europe and Asia onbank resolution matters. Bill spent most of his legal career atWilmerHale, where he was managing partner for more than 13 years.He previously led the bankruptcy practice at Wilmer Cutler & Pickeringand worked on legislative amendments to the Bankruptcy Code andbank receivership legislation. Bill has testified before Committees ofboth Houses of Congress and presented to the OECD. He is a long-time member and a past director of ABI; a Fellow and past GeneralCounsel of the American College of Bankruptcy; a Fellow of theAmerican Law Institute; a past Board member, Neighborhood LegalServices Program (D.C.); and a Trustee and Counsel to the Board ofTrustees at Union College. Bill received the American Lawyer“Distinguished Law Firm Leadership” award in 2014 for lifetimeaccomplishments in law firm management. He graduated from UnionCollege, summa cum laude, in 1971; attended the London School ofEconomics, 1969-70; and received his J.D. from Yale Law School in1974, where he was Managing Editor of the Yale Law Journal. He wasa law clerk to Hon. Marvin E. Frankel, S.D.N.Y. (1974-75).



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STATHIS POTAMITIS

STATHIS has a broadly based transactional practice with an emphasison corporate governance and transactions and the restructuring ofdistressed enterprises. He is the founder and managing partner ofPOTAMITISVEkRIS, one of the largest and best known law firms inGreece.

Stathis leads POTAMITISVEkRIS’ initiative to create a network ofcollaborating professionals, made up of lawyers, accountants andbankers, in the area of insolvency and restructuring. Stathis wasengaged by the Greek government in 2014 to draft emergencymeasures to address the mounting NPL problem and the need tostreamline and improve the insolvency proceedings. Stathis wasinvolved throughout the various rounds of bank recapitalization asadvisor variously to the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (“HFSF”) andseveral systemic banks. Stathis is regularly invited to speak on Greekinsolvency law and practice, both in Greece and abroad. He is amember of the Review and Advisory Judge Co Project, developingPrinciples and Guidelines for cross-border cooperation in insolvencycases, and National Correspondent for the ELI Rescue of Business inInsolvency Law project. Stathis is an INSOL International Fellow, aFellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and a member of theInternational Insolvency Institute. He was also a member of an expertgroup advising on the preparation of a directive on preventivemeasures in the European Union.



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PROF. JOHN A. E. POTTOW

JOHN A. E. POTTOW, the John Philip Dawson Collegiate Professor ofLaw, is an internationally recognized expert in the field of bankruptcyand commercial law. His award-winning scholarship concentrates onthe issues involved in the regulation of cross-border insolvencies aswell as consumer financial distress. On behalf of the United States,Professor Pottow serves as a delegate to the United NationsCommission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). He has publishedin prominent legal journals in the United States and Canada andtestified before Congress. An oft-invited lecturer, he has presented hisworks at academic conferences around the world and frequentlyprovides commentary for national and international media outlets,such as NPR, CNBC, CNN, C-SPAN, Al Jazeera America, and the BBC. Healso has litigated bankruptcy cases before the U.S. Supreme Court,including his successful pro bono argument on behalf of therespondent in Executive Benefits Insurance Agency v. Arkison (2014).

Professor Pottow joined the faculty of Michigan Law in 2003. Prior tothat, he worked at several bankruptcy firms, including Weil, Gotshaland Manges of New York and the former Hill & Barlow of Boston. Hispractice focused on debtor representation in complex Chapter 11restructurings. He also was an active litigator whose cases includedrepresenting a gender-based asylum seeker from Afghanistan in U.S.Immigration Court and a small bankruptcy party before the SupremeCourt.

He holds an AB in psychology, summa cum laude, from HarvardCollege and a JD, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, wherehe served as treasurer of the Harvard Law Review. Professor Pottowclerked for the Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin, chief justice of Canada,and the Hon. Guido Calabresi, U.S. Court of Appeals for the SecondCircuit. He is licensed as a barrister and solicitor in Ontario and as anattorney in Massachusetts and Michigan. In 2005, he was presentedthe L. Hart Wright Award for Excellence in Teaching and, in 2012,received a pro bono award from the U.S. District Court of the EasternDistrict of Michigan. He is a member of the American College ofBankruptcy and the International Insolvency Institute.



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JUSTICE KANNAN RAMESH

JUSTICE kANNAN RAMESH joined the Supreme Court as JudicialCommissioner in May 2015, and then as Judge of the High Court inApril 2017.

He received his Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the NationalUniversity of Singapore in 1990. He was then admitted as an Advocateand Solicitor in Singapore in 1991, and appointed as Senior Counsel in2012.

Mr. Ramesh was Managing Partner of Messrs Tan kok QuanPartnership, where he specialised in dispute resolution, insolvencyand restructuring, and international arbitration.

He was also appointed as Board Member of the Singapore AerospaceManufacturing Pte Ltd and M1 Limited. In the former, he had anadded role as Executive Committee Member, while in the latter, hewas Chairman of M1’s Risk Committee, as well as Member of theirNominating and Audit Committees.

He is currently a Member of Singapore Academy of Law’s Law ReformCommittee, and New York’s International Insolvency Institute (III). Heis also part of the Arbitration and Conciliation working group in thelatter.

Mr. Ramesh wrote Getting the Deal Through – Restructuring andInsolvency in 51 Jurisdictions Worldwide in 2010. He also authored theSingapore Chapter of the World Bank publication, Doing Business –Closing a Business Survey, published in 2009, 2010 and 2011.



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PROF. NANCY B. RAPOPORT

NANCY B. RAPOPORT is the Special Counsel to the President of theUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is also the Garman TurnerGordon Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law,University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and is an Affiliate Professor ofBusiness Law and Ethics in the Lee Business School at UNLV. Afterreceiving her B.A., summa cum laude, from Rice University in 1982 andher J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1985, she clerked for theHonorable Joseph T. Sneed III on the United States Court of Appealsfor the Ninth Circuit and then practiced law (primarily bankruptcy law)with Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco from 1986-1991. Shestarted her academic career at The* Ohio State University College ofLaw in 1991, and she moved from Assistant Professor to AssociateProfessor with tenure in 1995 to Associate Dean for Student Affairs(1996) and Professor (1998) (just as she left Ohio State to becomeDean and Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College ofLaw). She served as Dean of the University of Nebraska College of Lawfrom 1998-2000. She then served as Dean and Professor of Law at theUniversity of Houston Law Center from July 2000-May 2006 and asProfessor of Law from June 2006-June 2007, when she left to join thefaculty at Boyd. She served as Interim Dean of Boyd from 2012-2013,as Senior Advisor to the President of UNLV from 2014-2015, as ActingExecutive Vice President & Provost from 2015-2016, and as ActingSenior Vice President for Finance and Business (for July and August2017). Her specialties are bankruptcy ethics, ethics in governance, lawfirm behavior, and the depiction of lawyers in popular culture. In2001, she was elected to membership in the American Law Institute,and in 2002, she received a Distinguished Alumna Award from RiceUniversity. In 2017, she received the Commercial Law League ofAmerica’s Lawrence P. king Award for Excellence in Bankruptcy, and in2018, she was one of the recipients of the NAACP Legacy BuilderAwards (Las Vegas Branch #1111).

* “The” really is capitalized as part of The Ohio State University’s official name.



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HON. LISA RITCHEY CRAIG

LISA RITCHEY CRAIG was sworn in as a Bankruptcy Judge for theNorthern District of Georgia (Atlanta) on March 24, 2016. JudgeRitchey Craig was born and raised in Sarasota, Florida and attendedMercer University in Macon, Georgia where she earned her B.A. in1986 and her J.D. in 1989 from Mercer University’s Walter F. GeorgeSchool of Law. After law school, she clerked in London, England andthen relocated to Atlanta, Georgia. She has worked in the creditor’srights arena and served as a staff attorney for the Chapter 13 Trusteein Atlanta.

Immediately prior to her appointment to the bench, Judge RitcheyCraig was a partner at McCullough, Payne, Haan LLC in Atlanta,Georgia, where she led the bankruptcy practice group representingcreditors. She served on the Board of Directors, and on the ExecutiveCommittee, for the Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute, theExecutive Board of Directors for the State Bar of Georgia, BankruptcySection, the Executive Committee for The W.H. Drake Bankruptcy Innof Court, acted as the coordinating editor for the Consumer Cornercolumn for the ABI Journal and was AV rated by Martindale Hubbell.

Judge Ritchey Craig is currently a member of the National Conferenceof Bankruptcy Judges and serves on the Membership Services and theCost Containment and Judicial Relations Committees.


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LOUIS E. ROBICHAUX IV

MR. ROBICHAUX is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura, and serveson the firm’s Management Committee. Based in Dallas, Texas, Mr.Robichaux provides restructuring, crisis management, financialadvisory, and expert witness services to parties in a broad variety ofdistressed corporate settings, with a significant emphasis on the U.S.health care industry. Current and former clients include providers,payors, secured creditors, unsecured creditor committees,governmental entities, trustees, and other parties in interest.

Prior to joining Ankura, Mr. Robichaux was a Principal in in Deloitte’srestructuring practice. Prior to joining Deloitte, Mr. Robichaux was aco-managing member and managing director of a national boutiquecrisis management and restructuring firm. Prior to that position, hewas a senior restructuring practitioner at a large professional servicesfirm and a Big Four professional services firm. Mr. Robichaux workedin the health care industry as a senior financial and operational analystfor kaiser Permanente, as well as various management positions inthe long-term care industry, before he entered the consultingenvironment.

In addition to being a CFA charterholder, Mr. Robichaux’s otherprofessional designations include Certified Turnaround Professional(CTP), Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA), andCertification in Distressed Business Valuation (CDBV). Mr. Robichauxalso holds an inactive license as a Texas Licensed Nursing FacilityAdministrator. He is also a former member of the City Council ofHighland Village, Texas.

Mr. Robichaux earned his M.B.A. from the Mays Business School atTexas A&M University, and his B.B.A. from Austin Peay StateUniversity.


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MARY A. SCHMERGEL

MARY A. SCHMERGEL is a Senior Trial Counsel in the Civil Division atthe Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., where she representsthe United States in bankruptcy proceedings throughout the country.Prior to joining the Department of Justice in 2004, Mrs. Schmergel wasan associate at the law firm of Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, LLP inCincinnati, Ohio, where she was a member of the firm’s BusinessRestructuring & Creditor Rights practice group. Mrs. Schmergel alsoclerked for the Honorable Eugene E. Siler, Jr. of the United States Courtof Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Mrs. Schmergel frequently lectures onbankruptcy topics, including setoff, recoupment, and False Claims Actclaims in bankruptcy, and is the author of Means Testing andPreventing Abuse by Consumer Debtors, The United States Attorneys’Bulletin, Vol. 54, No. 4 (2006). The opinions and views expressed byMrs. Schmergel are her own and should not be relied upon,interpreted or considered to be the policies, positions or opinions ofthe United States.


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PROF. STEVEN L. SCHWARCZ

STEVEN L. SCHWARCZ is the Stanley A. Star Professor of Law &Business at Duke University and founding director of Duke'sinterdisciplinary Global Financial Markets Center. Seehttps://law.duke.edu/fac/schwarcz/. His areas of research andscholarship include insolvency and bankruptcy law, internationalfinance, capital markets, systemic risk, corporate governance, andcommercial law. He holds a bachelor's degree in aerospaceengineering (summa cum laude) and a Juris Doctor from ColumbiaLaw School. Prior to joining Duke, he was a partner at two of theworld's leading law firms and Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School. Healso helped to pioneer the field of asset securitization, and his bookStructured Finance: A Guide to the Principles of Asset Securitization isone of the most widely used texts in that field. Schwarcz has been theLeverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford, VisitingProfessor at the University of Geneva Faculty of Law, Lecturer in Lawat Columbia Law School, Distinguished Visiting Professor at UniversityCollege London (UCL) Faculty of Laws, and an advisor to the UnitedNations. He also has testified before the U.S. Congress on topicsincluding systemic risk, securitization, credit rating agencies, andfinancial regulation, and has advised several U.S. and foreigngovernmental agencies on the financial crisis and shadow banking. Hisarticle "Systemic Risk" (Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 97, No. 1) wasthe second-most-cited law review article of 2008; he also has beenrecognized as the world's second-most-cited scholar, 2010-2014, incommercial and bankruptcy law. Schwarcz is a fellow of the AmericanCollege of Bankruptcy and the American College of CommercialFinance Lawyers, a founding member of the International InsolvencyInstitute, Business Law Advisor to the American Bar Association, amember of P.R.I.M.E. Finance's Panel of Recognized InternationalMarket Experts in Finance, and Senior Fellow of the Centre forInternational Governance Innovation (CIGI).



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HON. LAURIE SELBER SILVERSTEIN

LAURIE SELBER SILVERSTEIN was sworn in as a bankruptcy judge forthe District of Delaware on January 7, 2015. She is a member of theCommittee on the Budget of the Judicial Conference of the UnitedStates. Judge Silverstein is also a Fellow of the American College ofBankruptcy and the American Bar Foundation. She serves on theBoard of Directors of the Delaware Bar Foundation and the ExecutiveCommittee of The Delaware Bankruptcy American Inn of Court. She isalso a member of the Legislative Committee of the NationalConference of Bankruptcy Judges. Prior to joining the bench, JudgeSilverstein was a partner at Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP inWilmington, Delaware, where she led the firm’s bankruptcy andcorporate restructuring practice group. She received her law degree,with honors, in 1985 from The National Law Center of The GeorgeWashington University, and her Bachelor of Science, cum laude, in1982 from the University of Delaware.



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CAMISHA L. SIMMONS

CAMISHA L. SIMMONS is the founder and managing member of thelaw firm Simmons Legal PLLC in Dallas, Texas. She founded the firmafter practicing in New York and Dallas for close to 8 years as anassociate attorney for the global law firms of Weil, Gotshal & MangesLLP, DLA Piper and Norton Rose Fulbright.

She has extensive experience representing companies in chapter 11bankruptcy proceedings and related litigation and restructuringmatters.

Texas Lawyer named her to its inaugural list of Legal Leaders on theRise. She has also been named a Texas Rising Star and a New YorkMetro Rising Star by SuperLawyers®, a Thomson Reuters rating service.Additionally, in 2015, the National Black Lawyers named her a “Top 40Under 40” attorney.

In addition to practicing law, she teaches. She serves as an AdjunctProfessor of Law at the University of North Texas College of Law and isa frequent author and speaker on various bankruptcy, restructuring,creditors’ rights and litigation topics.

From 2006-2007, Ms. Simmons was a law clerk to the Honorable MaryF. Walrath, Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court, District ofDelaware.

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HON. LORI S. SIMPSON

HONORABLE LORI S. SIMPSON is a recent addition to the bench ofthe United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland,having been sworn in September 2016. Immediately prior, she was theprincipal of the Simpson Law Group in Baltimore, MD. She and thefirm represented individuals and business in a variety of legal matters,including bankruptcy, workouts, business litigation. She served on theChapter 7 Trustee Panel for the United States Bankruptcy Court,District of Maryland from 1997 until her appointment in 2016.

She is a member of the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees,the Maryland State Bar Association, the District of Columbia Bar, theBankruptcy Bar Association, International Women’s Insolvency andRestructuring Confederation and the Anne Arundel County BarAssociation. She is a past director of the Bankruptcy Bar Association,and was active in the Women’s Bar Association.

Simpson has provided free fiscal educational services to teens andyoung adults via high school and university programs. She has alsoserved on the Board of Directors of the Hannah More School, whichprovides educational opportunities for children from the 6th gradethrough 12th grade with disabilities such as autism and Asperger’ssyndrome. She is presently on the Board of Directors for Pathfindersfor Autism.

Simpson earned her B.A. degree at James Madison University and herJ.D. from the University of Baltimore.


CC Room 006ABC

11:00 am – 12:30 pm

NOT JUST

ANOTHER

RODEO: STAYING

AT THE TOP OF

YOUR GAME

CONSUMER

CONCURRENT

SESSION

San Antonio 2018


DANIELLE SPINELLI

DANIELLE SPINELLI is Vice-Chair of the Supreme Court and AppellateLitigation Group at WilmerHale in Washington, D.C., where asignificant part of her practice focuses on bankruptcy appeals. Shehas argued five cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including threebankruptcy cases: Czyzewski v. Jevic Holding Corp. (2017) (successfullyrepresented petitioners in case holding that structured dismissal ofChapter 11 bankruptcy may not distribute estate assets to creditors inviolation of Bankruptcy Code’s priority scheme); Bank of America, N.A.v. Caulkett (2015) (successfully represented petitioner in case holdingthat wholly underwater junior lien may not be stripped off in aChapter 7 bankruptcy); Clark v. Rameker (2014) (successfullyrepresented respondent in case holding inherited IRAs are not exemptin bankruptcy); United States v. Tohono O’odham Nation (2011)(represented respondent in case involving jurisdiction of Court ofFederal Claims); and Rothgery v. Gillespie County, Texas (2008)(successfully represented petitioner in case involving SixthAmendment right to counsel). She has also represented parties oramici in many other Supreme Court cases, including successfullyrepresenting the respondent in Stern v. Marshall (2011), a path-breaking case on Article III and bankruptcy court power, and thedeath-row inmates in Roper v. Simmons (2005), which held thatjuveniles could not constitutionally be sentenced to death, and Hall v.Florida (2014), which invalidated Florida’s standards for determiningintellectual disability for death-penalty purposes. In addition, Daniellehas argued before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third,Fourth, Ninth, Tenth, and Federal Circuits, including in multiplebankruptcy appeals, and has briefed many more. In the last twoyears, for example, she successfully represented senior securedcreditors in overturning confirmation of the Chapter 11 plans in theEFIH, Momentive, and Houston Regional Sports Networkbankruptcies. Danielle is a member of the Judicial ConferenceAdvisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, towhich she was appointed by the Chief Justice, and a Fellow of theAmerican College of Bankruptcy. She graduated from Harvard LawSchool and clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court ofAppeals for the Second Circuit and Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S.Supreme Court.



10:30 – 11:30 am

HOOKED ON THE

HORNS OF A

LEGAL DILEMMA:

CAN “MOO”TNESS

BE EQUITABLE?

CONCURRENT

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ROBERT J. STEARN, JR.

ROBERT J. STEARN JR. is a director of Richards, Layton & Finger,Delaware’s largest law firm. He has been litigating complex disputes inDelaware’s federal and state courts for nearly 30 years. Mr. Stearnfocuses his practice primarily on bankruptcy litigation, handlingpreference and fraudulent transfer litigation and all types of contestedmatters. His clients include large corporate debtors as well asdefendants in adversary proceedings. Mr. Stearn also has substantialexperience litigating corporate issues such as D&O liability, as well as awide range of commercial disputes.

Mr. Stearn is the author of several articles concerning valuation inbankruptcy, including “Proving Solvency: Defending Preference andFraudulent Transfer Litigation” (The Business Lawyer, 2007). He hasbeen recognized in Chambers USA, Benchmark Litigation and The BestLawyers in America, and he frequently speaks on Delaware bankruptcyissues at regional workshops and seminars. Mr. Stearn received a BS,magna cum laude, from Dickinson College, and a JD, Order of the Coif,from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.



11:00 am – 12:30 pm

REMEMBER THE

ALAMO:

SHAREHOLDERS

VS. HEDGE FUNDS

CONCURRENT

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BRYCE A. SUZUKI

BRYCE SUZUkI is the managing partner of the Phoenix office of BryanCave Leighton Paisner. He provides strategic business planning anddispute resolution assistance to a diverse range of lenders, companies,and business owners affected by potential or actual insolvency issues.Mr. Suzuki regularly handles commercial bankruptcy cases injurisdictions across the country by admission pro hac vice, and hassignificant experience managing appeals involving bankruptcy andinsolvency issues. In collaboration with his colleagues in the firm’sregulatory and FinTech practice areas, he also advises businesses,including early-stage and growing technology companies, in the fieldof cryptocurrency (Bitcoin), blockchain, and related technologies.

Mr. Suzuki is a frequent speaker on both bankruptcy matters and thelegal implications of blockchain technology. Beginning in the fall of2018, he is teaching “Blockchain and the Law” as an adjunct professorat the ASU Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. He currently serves onthe Board of Trustees and on the Nominations Committee of TMAGlobal. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a ResearchFellow of the ASU Center for Law, Science and Innovation. In the past,he has served as the national chair of the Restructuring and BankruptcyCommittee for the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, aschair of the Arizona State Bar’s Committee on Minorities and Women inthe Law, and as president of the Arizona Asian American BarAssociation. More recently, he was recognized with the TMATurnaround of the Year Award (Midsize Company) 2017, and the M&AAdvisor Healthcare/Life Sciences Deal of the Year Award 2017.

Mr. Suzuki received his B.A. and M.A. from Brigham Young Universityand his J.D. from the University of Iowa College of Law.


CC Room 005

11:45 am – 12:45 pm

CRYPTOCURRENCY:

ANTLERS FOR BEER

AT THE BUCKHORN

SALOON

CONCURRENT

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San Antonio 2018


HON. CHARLES “CHUCK” WALKER

CHARLES “CHUCk” WALkER was appointed on July 27, 2016, as aUnited States Bankruptcy Judge for the Middle District of Tennessee.

Before taking the bench, Judge Walker served as a trial attorney forthe U.S. Department of Justice in the Office of the U.S. Trustee for 14years. Prior to his time with the U.S. Trustee, Judge Walker was inprivate practice with the law firms Wyatt, Tarrant and Combs, LLP andBone McAllester Norton PLLC concentrating in the areas of creditorsrights and commercial litigation. Judge Walker served eight years onactive duty with the U.S. Air Force and continues to serve as abrigadier general in the kentucky Air National Guard. He holds aBachelor of Aviation Management from Auburn University, a Masterof Science in Human Resources Management from Troy University andhe received his Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from The John MarshallLaw School in Chicago.

Judge Walker is active in the Nashville community, an alumnus ofNashville’s Young Leaders Council and a former Director of the Mid-South Commercial Law Institute and Family & Children’s Service. Hewas the first recipient of the Honorable Cornelius BlackshearFellowship awarded by the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judgesin 2004. In 2015 he was the recipient of the Major General Robert I.Gruber Excellence in Teaching Award, which is awarded by the U.S. AirForce Judge Advocate General School, recognizing the mostexceptional reserve military law instructor.


CC Room 006ABC

10:30 – 11:30 am

DON’T JUDGE...

UNTIL YOU’VE

WALKED A MILE IN

A JUDGE’S BOOTS

JUDGE HOSTED

ROUNDTABLE

DISCUSSIONS

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PROF. JAY WESTBROOK

PROFESSOR WESTBROOk is the Benno C. Schmidt Chair of BusinessLaw at the University of Texas School of Law. He was previously apartner in Surrey & Morse (now part of Jones Day) in Washington, D.C.He is best known internationally for his work in international andcomparative insolvency law, starting with his 1991 article Theory andPragmatism In Global Insolvencies: Choice Of Law And Choice OfForum. In addition to many articles, he is co-author of several books,including A Global View Of Business Insolvency Systems (MartinusNijhoff 2010) and The Law Of Debtors And Creditors (Aspen, 7th ed.2014). He has been Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School and theUniversity of London, and is a member of the American Law Institute,the National Bankruptcy Conference, and the American College ofBankruptcy. He serves as a consultant to the International MonetaryFund and the World Bank. He was the United States Reporter for theALI's Transnational Insolvency Project and co-head of the UnitedStates delegation to the UNCITRAL conference that produced theModel Law on Cross-Border Insolvency. He is Director Emeritus of theInternational Insolvency Institute and a director and former Presidentof the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law. Seealso https://texaslawreview.org/symposium/.



3:30 – 5:00 pm

BANKRUPTCY

SIN FRONTERAS

(BANKRUPTCY

WITHOUT

BORDERS) -

VOICES AND

VIDEOS FROM

AROUND THE

WORLD


San Antonio 2018


ANUPAMA YERRAMALLI

ANUPAMA YERRAMALLI represents a diverse range of clients,including debtors, official committees, bondholders and otherinvestors in bankruptcy cases, out-of-court restructurings and otherdistressed situations. Anu has been involved in some of the mostcomplex and multifaceted bankruptcies and restructurings across adiverse range of industries including health care, shipping,telecommunications, manufacturing and retail.

Her recent representations include Subaru Corporation and MazdaMotor Corporation in connection with the sale and restructuring ofTakata, the airbag inflator manufacturer at the center of the largestauto industry recall in history, the Official Committee of UnsecuredCreditors of CHC Group Ltd., the largest commercial helicopter serviceprovider primarily servicing the oil and gas industry, Targus, thecomputer accessory manufacturer, in its financial and operationalrestructuring, and Genco Shipping & Trading and 57 affiliates in theircontested prepackaged Chapter 11 cases that restructured $1.4 billionof debt.

Anu was recently named to the inaugural 40 Under 40 class of theAmerican Bankruptcy Institute and as an Emerging Leader by M&AAdvisor. Anu currently serves on the Associate Board of ReadingPartners New York, the board of the Young Professionals MentoringProgram and is the Vice President of the American Bankruptcy InstituteLaw Review Alumni Association.


CC Room 006ABC

10:30 – 11:30 am


KNOW HOW TO

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