2025

Winter Bankruptcy Conference

December 9-12
Snowbird
Cliff Lodge
9320 Cliff Lodge Dr, Snowbird, UT 84092

Airport Transportation
Reserved shuttle directly to and from the airport to Snowbird Cliff Lodge:

Call 1-800-453-3000 at least 48 hours prior to arrival date. Pricing is $114 per person round -trip or $57.00 one way, pre-paid. Same-day walk ups are accepted at a higher rate on a space available basis at the ALta Shuttle Desk located on Level 1 (Ground Transportation) of the Salt Lake International Airport. Cancellations within 72 hours of arrival are non-refundable. Prices subject to change. Rates include driver Gratuity.

Schedule-at-a-Glance

Wednesday, December 10th

4:00 PM	Opening Panel: Not Your Conventional Business Case Panelists: Judge Christopher Bradley (Bankr. W.D. Tex.) Judge Martin Glenn (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.) Judge Meredith Grabill (Bankr. E.D. La.) Eric Goodman (Brown Rudnick) Gregory Pesce (White & Case)
5:15 PM	Break
6:00 PM	Dinner with Keynote Panel: Who Decides What? Panelists: Judge Lisa Beckerman (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.) Judge Phillip Bentley (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.) Judge Craig Goldblatt (Bankr. Del.) Chad Husnick (Kirkland & Ellis) Ryan Dahl (Ropes & Gray)
7:45 PM	Chicago Hosted Event

Thursday, December 11th

8:00 AM	Combined Academic/Practitioner Panel Robert Miller (University of South Dakota) – Cross-Contamination in Corporate Restructuring Vasile Rotaru (Harvard Law School) – Liability Management’s Limited Runway Dennis Jenkins (Willkie, Farr & Gallagher) – Exit Consents in a Liability Management World Katherine Waldock (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz) – Pro Rata
9:40 AM	Break
10:00 AM	Academic Panel Lindsey Simon (Emory University) – Mass Tort Democracy Nicole Langston (Vanderbilt) – Discriminatory Bankruptcy Trusts Michael A. Francus (University of Virginia) – Representing the Mass in Mass-Tort Bankruptcy Catherine Robinson (University of Technology Sydney) – The Finality of Future Claims
11:40 AM	Extended Break (Skiing, Snowshoeing, or Scenery)
3:30 PM	Academic Panel Jared Ellias (Harvard Law School) – The Global Law of Debt Debanshu Mukherjee (Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy) – Airline Bankruptcies in India: A Case for Reform Lidija Simunovic Dikonic & Dubravka Aksamovic (Faculty of Law Osijek) – ESG Considerations in EU Insolvency Law: A Transatlantic Reflection on Emerging Challenges
4:45 PM	Break
5:00 PM	General Interest Panel: Good Faith and Practice Panelists: Judge Elizabeth Gunn (Bankr. D.D.C.) Judge Michael Kaplan (Bankr. D.N.J.) Judge Chris Lopez (Bankr. S.D. Tex.) Judge Michael Slade (Bankr. N.D. Ill.) Ted Gavin, CTP, NCPM (Gavin/Solmonese LLC)
6:30 PM	Coordinated Dinner Groups

Friday, December 12th

8:00 AM	Academic Panel Alex Gouzoules (University of Missouri) – Chapter 11 and Corporate Crime Stephen Lubben (Seton Hall Law School) – The End of an Era William Organek (Baruch College) – University Failure
9:15 AM	Break
9:30 AM	Academic Panel Chris Odinet (Texas A&M) & Andrea Tosato (Southern Methodist University) – Digital Bailments and Bankruptcy Dolan Bortner (Stanford Law School) – Private Equity and the Leveraged Buyout
10:20 AM	Break
10:30 AM	Academic Panel Jared Mayer (Cardozo) – The Control Rights Remedy in Mass Tort Bankruptcies Candice L. Kline (University of Toledo) – Channeling Fairness: Price, Procedure, and Power in Mass Tort Bankruptcy After Purdue Pharma Annette Jarvis (Greenberg Traurig) – Defending “Second-Party” Releases in Mass Tort Bankruptcies Aneil Kovvali (Cardozo) – Market Testing Mass Torts
12:10 PM	Adjourn

Our Sponsors

University of Chicago Law School Center on Law and Finance ›

Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School ›

Brown Rudnick LLP ›

Gavin Solmonese ›

Greenberg Traurig ›

Kirkland & Ellis LLP ›

Rope & Gray LLP ›

White & Case LLP ›