Canadian–American Symposium on Cross-Border Insolvency Law Faculty

Workout Financing: Does the Money Control the Restructuring?

Chair: The Honourable Chief Justice Donald Brenner, Supreme Court of British Columbia, Vancouver Jeff Gollob, McMillan Binch LLP, Toronto Prof. Janis Sarra, Uinversity of British Columbia Faculty of Law, Vancouver Howard Steinberg, GE Corporate Financial Services, Toronto Harvey Tepner, Compass Advisors LLP, New York Robert Thornton, ThorntonGroutFinnigan LLP, Toronto

Labour Relations Issues in Restructuring—What is the Bargain?

Chair: The Honourable Justice Warren Winkler, Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Toronto Babette Ceccotti; Cohen, Weiss & Simon; New York Prof. Ron Davis, University of British Columbia Faculty of Law, Vancouver Jeffrey Jonas, Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP, Boston Robert Keach; Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson; Portland, Maine Murray McDonald, Ernst & Young, Toronto Joe Morrison, Goodmans LLP, Toronto Stephen Wahl, Koskie Minsky LLP, Toronto

Contracts, Losses and Trusts—Who Could Ask for Anything More?

Chair: The Honourable Justice Georgina Jackson, Saskatchewan Court of Appeal, Regina, Saskatchewan Evelyn Biery, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, Houston David Cleary; McDermott, Will & Emery LLP; Chicago Michael Fitch, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Vancouver Susan Grundy, Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP, Toronto Ralph Neville, BDO Dunwoody LLP, Toronto

A Whirlwind Tour of Diverse Issues

Chair: The Honourable Justice Robert A. Blair, Ontario Court of Appeal, Toronto James Bromley; Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton; New York Natasha MacParland; Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP; Toronto Jodi Mason, Blake Cassels & Graydon, Calgary, Alberta Michael Rotsztain, Torys LLP, Toronto William Schrag; Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP; New York Derrick Tay, Ogilvy Renault, Toronto

Ancillary Proceedings—Should the Tail Wag the Dog?

Chair: Hon. Allan Gropper, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, New York Selinda Melnik, Edwards & Angell LLP, Wilmington, Del. Nancy Mitchell, Greenberg Traurig LLP, Chicago Edward Sellers; Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP; Toronto Jamie Sprayregen, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago Prof. Jacob Ziegel, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Toronto

After the Fall—Personal Liability of Directors, Lenders, Receivers, Trustees, Turnaround Managers

Chair: The Honourable Justice James Farley, Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Toronto John Finnigan, ThorntonGroutFinnigan LLP, Toronto Steven Golick; Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Toronto Patrick McCarthy Q.C., Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Calgary, Alberta Prof. Richard McLaren, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario Michael Richman; Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, New York Joseph Samet, Baker & McKenzie, New York Bettina Whyte, AlixPartners LLC, New York

Workouts under the CCAA and Chapter 11—A Roundtable (The Bear Pit Session!)

Chair: Robert Fishman; Shaw Gussis Fishman Glantz Wolfson & Towbin LLC; Chicago Philippe Bélanger, McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Montréal Tina Brozman, Bingham McCutchen LLP, New York Karen Cramm, Deloitte Touche, Toronto Marc Duchesne, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Montréal Peter Farkas, RSM Richter Inc., Toronto Mark Fogel, Edwards & Angell LLP, Boston James Grout, ThorntonGroutFinnigan LLP, Toronto Richard Grudzinski, KPMG Inc., Toronto Marc Mayrand, Office of The Superintendant of Bankruptcy, Ottawa Ward Mooney, Bank of America Retail Finance Group, Boston Rebecca Roof, AlixPartners LLC, New York Robert Rosenberg, Latham & Watkins LLP, New York Brad Snyder, Gordon Brothers Group LLC, Boston William Weintraub; Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young, Jones & Weintraub PC, New York

Hot Topics in Consumer Insolvency and Bankruptcy

Chair: The Honourable Justice Jack Ground, Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Toronto Prof. Jean Braucher, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz. Guylaine Houle, Litwin Boyadjian Inc., Montréal Ricardo Kilpatrick, Kilpatrick & Associates PC, Rochester Hills, Mich. Professor Iain Ramsay, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto Alan Shiner, Shiner Kideckel Zweig, Richmond Hill, Ontario David Stewart, Office of The Superintendent of Bankruptcy, Ottawa

Current Events: All the News not Fit to Print

Chair: The Honourable Justice Marina Paperny, Court of Appeal of Alberta, Calgary, Alberta Geoffrey Morawetz, Goodmans LLP, Toronto John Penn, Haynes and Boone, Fort Worth, Texas Anthony Schnelling, Bridge Associates LLC, New York Greg Watson, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Toronto