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Program
Description:
The 'Best of ABI' program from this summer's Southeast
Bankruptcy Workshop features a panel on recent complex chapter 11
developments, including cramdown plans post-Armstrong World, new issues
surrounding the retention of investment bankers and advisors
post-BAPCPA, and answers to the question of who owns the D&O policy
proceeds when a company files for bankruptcy: the debtor, the debtor's
estate, the directors and officers, or the creditors' Learn the latest
developments in this seminar deemed the Best of ABI's 2006 Southeast
program.
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Speaker
Bios:
Anna Phillips is a managing
director at Giuliani Capital Advisors LLC in Atlanta, where she has
initiated and led the execution of financing and restructuring
transactions in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. She
has advised both public and private companies spanning a wide
cross-section of industries including airlines, specialty finance,
retail, heavy construction and engineering, manufacturing and consumer
products. Ms. Phillips has executed cross-border transactions and
restructuring both in the U.S. bankruptcy court and outside of the
bankruptcy process. She has represented various constituencies including
the company, secured lenders and unsecured creditors. Ms. Phillips'
recent clients include Delta Air Lines Inc., Pagenet do Brasil, United
Companies Financial Corp., Oakwood Homes and Borden Chemicals &
Plastics OLP. She is a member of the Australian Institute of Chartered
Accountants, ABI and numerous restructuring industry organizations in
the United States. Ms. Phillips received her B.C. from the University of
Tasmania in Australia.
John P. Whittington is a partner with Bradley, Arant,
Rose & White, LLP in Birmingham, Ala., where he chairs the firm's
Restructuring, Reorganization & Bankruptcy Practice Group and
concentrates his practice in representing debtors, creditors and
equityholders in complex business reorganization cases, including both
chapter 11 reorganizations and out-of-court restructurings. Mr.
Whittington's recent engagements include serving as lead counsel for
Birmingham Steel Corp., J.A. Jones Inc. and 57 affiliated construction
and engineering-related cases pending in the Western District of North
Carolina, as well as Caremark Rx Inc. He also represented all of the
shareholders in the chapter 11 case of Shook & Fletcher Inc. in the
restructuring of an asbestos-related case where the shareholders
retained 100 percent ownership of the company when it emerged from
bankruptcy. Mr. Whittington is a member of ABI, the Birmingham Bar
Association and the Alabama State Bar, and is co-chair of the ABA
subcommittee on financial institution litigation. He is a fellow in the
American College of Bankruptcy and has served as an adjunct professor at
the Cumberland School of Law, Samford University. Mr. Whittington
received his B.A. from Guilford College and his J.D. from the Cumberland
School of Law.
Hon. Michael G. Williamson is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the
Middle District of Florida, appointed on March 1, 2000. He began his
career as a chapter 7 panel trustee, and over the course of the next 23
years he represented chapter 11 corporate debtors, creditors' committees
and trustees in bankruptcy cases pending throughout the state of
Florida. Judge Williamson is a member of the American Bar Association, a
past chair of the Business Law Section of The Florida Bar and past
Florida chair of the fellows of the American Bar Foundation. He is a
fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy, is Board-certified in
Business Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification and has
been listed in The Best Lawyers in America. Judge Williamson
graduated magna cum laude from Duke University and received his
J.D. from Georgetown University.
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