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• 2026 Issues in Entertainment Chapter 11 Cases: A Conversation

  • When
    02/10/2026
  • Location
    Zoom and Greenspoon Marder -1875 Century Pk E Suite 1900, Los Angeles

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  Issues in Entertainment Chapter 11 Cases

  Please join Justin Bernbrock from Sheppard Mullin and David E. Ahdoot from Bush Gottlieb as they walk us through issues in entertainment chapter 11 bankruptcies.   David is a practice leader in Bush Gottlieb’s insolvency representation for the DGA, SAG-AFTRA and the WGA, which has continued since 1988.  Justin is hot off of his representation of the Village Roadshow Debtors in their Delaware Chapter 11 filing, where he had to navigate numerous stakeholder interests, multiple asset sales and adversarial Motion Picture Studio and Distributor positions.  Don’t miss their insights, war stories, and practice tips, as they unpack the idiosyncrasies required by entertainment insolvency practice. 

  Presenters:  

  David Ahdoot – Bush Gottleib, A Law Corporation

  Justin Bernbrock – Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

  
  

  Date: Tuesday February 10, 2026

  
  

  Time: 5:30-6:30 pm - Networking and lite bites

             6:30-7:30 pm - Program

  Location: Greenspoon Marder, 1875 Century Pk E Suite 1900, Los Angeles

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  In Person (limited to the 1st 40 people): 

  $60    Members

  $75   Non-members

  $20    Government (email for registration code)

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  * Current FLC Membership is from July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026. Membership is pro-rated

  
  

  Zoom: 

  $40 - Member

  $60 - Non-Members

  $  0 for government (email for registration code)

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  * Current FLC Membership is from July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026. Membership is pro-rated

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  This activity has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of California in the amount of 1 hour. The Financial Lawyers Conference certifies that this activity conforms to the standards for approved educational activities prescribed by the rules and regulations of the State Bar of California governing minimum continuing legal education.

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• 2026 Annual Seminar

  • Start
    03/13/2026
  •  
    1:00 PM
  • End
    03/15/2026
  •  
    12:00 PM
  • Location
    Hyatt Huntington Beach
  • Spaces left
    28

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  2026 Annual Seminar

  March 13-15, 2026

  

  We are looking forward to the Financial Lawyers Conference’s next Annual Seminar, to be held on March 13-15, 2026 at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort and Spa. This year’s Seminar will be led by Professor Vincent Buccola of the University of Chicago Law School.

  The 2026 Seminar will address the following important bankruptcy law topics (some ripe, some budding) that go to the heart of what modern restructuring practice should or could look like:

  1.     Making Sense of Liability Management Transactions. If there’s a single mega trend in the restructuring world, it’s the move, over the last 10 or so years, toward increasing reliance on out-of-court recapitalizations, and especially on out-of-court deals that involve highly coercive offers (in a game theoretic sense of the word). Our aims will be twofold: first, to define and explain the change; and second, to consider the legality of common approaches, by attending especially to a theoretically fraught relationship between debt contract language and background legal principles that apply to debtor-creditor relations generally.

  2.     Non-Pro Rata Transactions in Bankruptcy. The economic forces that have given us liability management have also led, in cases that make their way to bankruptcy, to Chapter 11 processes that embed some but not all of the same coercive elements. In particular, the non-pro rata economics so familiar to LMT have found their way into Chapter 11 via DIP financing agreements and plan contemplated capital raises. We will consider how bankruptcy’s distinctive governance principles bear on the permissibility of non-pro rata transactions effected in court and what to think of resulting forum shopping if so.

  3.     Revisiting sub rosa plans. In its recent Boy Scouts decision, the Third Circuit embraced an understanding of 11 U.S.C. s 363(m) that could be used to sidestep the Code’s plan confirmation rules in a variety of contexts. We will weigh the practical as well as doctrinal limits to implementing broad-based restructuring deals through a 363 sale order and use Boy Scouts as a springboard to consider more generally the longstanding, uncomfortable relationship between the law of estate management and of plan confirmation.

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  In order to accommodate our contractual obligations with the hotel, registration will close on January 23, 2026. 

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