Investment Banking Committee

Volume 1, Number 2 / October 2004

In This Issue:

• Committee to Hold Joint Meeting with Consumer Bankruptcy Committee at 2004 Winter Leadership Conference
• Disinterestedness and Disclosure in Retention of Professionals
• The Farmland Industries Decisions: Impact on the Retention and Payment of Investment Bankers in Chapter 11 Cases
• Deepening Insolvency: Developing Theory and Defenses to Liability

• Committee Officers
• Upcoming Events
• Contribute to the Newsletter
• ABI World
• Newsletter Main Page

What’s New at ABI?

Online Features of Interest to Investment Banking Committee Members

• Check out the new ABI World to view the upgraded Investment Banking Committee section. The new “committees” area of the web site allocates space for each ABI committee. From the home page, click on “About ABI” and then “Committees” to see all of ABI’s committees. In the left-hand navigation in blue, click on “Investment Banking.”

  Once you click on the Investment Banking Committee, you will notice that the left-hand navigation in blue has changed again. Within the main page, you will see a listing of the committee chairs, the committee listserves (where you can join or view the Investment Banking Committee listserve) and agendas for any upcoming meetings of the Investment Banking Committee. In the left-hand navigation you will note that beneath “Investment Banking” there are three options: Minutes, Newsletter and Educational Materials. The “Minutes” page provides minutes from past Investment Banking Committee meetings. The “Newsletter” page provides all back issues of the Investment Banking electronic newsletter. The “Educational Materials” page provides educational materials from past conferences that address investment banking issues.

• The October issue of the ABI Journal should be hitting your mailbox any day. The June issue featured an article by Diana Woodman (Thompson & Knight LLP) and John Baumgartner (Chiron Financial Group Inc.) titled “How to Keep the Lights On in a REP Bankruptcy: A Case Study from Texas.”

• The latest bankruptcy court opinions and circuit case updates are made available at ABI World every week.

• Looking for a new employee or searching for a new job? Check out the new ABI Career Center—the one-stop site for job seekers and employers in the insolvency community. Stop by to set up your personal profile or search the available positions (over 120 on average). Employers are invited to post free job listings and search the job-seeker database for possible candidates.

• Check out the latest Collier Case Update offered at ABI World. Case summaries are available to ABI members.

• The latest edition of the West Bankruptcy Newsletter is now available. Provided by West Group, the newsletter is a weekly update on bankruptcy and debtor/creditor matters.

• Bankruptcy headlines are offered online via Dow Jones’ Daily Bankruptcy Review, The Daily Deal’s Bankruptcy Thursday and the Bankruptcydata.com Bankruptcy Headlines—all available at ABI World for members. And don’t forget ABI’s Daily Bankruptcy Headlines, posted each weekday by 9 am.

• Check out previous issues of the Professional Compensation Committee’s newsletters online.