Friday, February 11, 2005

7:30 am

Registration

Continental Breakfast

8:45–9:00 am

Opening

Co-chairs Steven Golick, Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP and Tom Telfer, University of Western Ontario

Welcome

Dean Ian Holloway, University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law

9:00–9:30 am

Opening Keynote Address

David Fransen, Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy Sector, Industry Canada

9:30–10:30 am

Concurrent Sessions I

• Workout Financing: Does the Money Control the Restructuring?
• Labour Relations Issues in Restructuring—What Is the Bargain?

10:30–11:30 am

Concurrent Sessions II

• Contracts, Losses and trusts—Who Could Ask for Anything More?
• A Whirlwind Tour of Diverse Issues

11:30–11:45 am

Break

11:45 am–12:45 pm

Concurrent Sessions III

• Ancillary Proceedings—Should the Tail Wag the Dog?
• After the Fall—Personal Liability of Lenders, Directors, Receivers, Trustees, Turnaround Managers

12:45–2:00 pm

Lunch

2:00–3:30 pm

Concurrent Sessions IV

• Workouts under the CCAA and Chapter 11—A Roundtable (The Bear Pit Session!)
• Hot Topics in Consumer Bankruptcy and Insolvency

3:30–3:45 pm

Break

3:45–4:45 pm

Plenary Session

Current Events: All the News not Fit to Print

4:45–5:15 pm

Closing Keynote Address

Lawrence A. Friedman, Director, U.S. Trustee Program, Washington, D.C.

5:15 pm

Close of Conference

Co-chairs Steven Golick, Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP and Tom Telfer, University of Western Ontario

5:45 pm

Evening Reception

Art Gallery of Ontario with entertainment by jazz septet.