Financial Restructuring Roundtable
About The Financial Restructuring Roundtable
The Financial Restructuring Roundtable (formerly the West Coast Bankruptcy Roundtable) is an annual, invitation-only event that brings together practitioners, jurists, scholars, and finance industry professionals to discuss important financial restructuring and business law issues. The event includes panels and paper presentations that seek to create a meaningful dialogue between disparate groups.
Professors Tony Casey, Samir Parikh, Robert Rasmussen, and Michael Simkovic are the founding members who work in partnership with Stephen Hessler and Anthony Grossi of Sidley Austin.
2023 Financial Restructuring Roundtable
This year’s roundtable is scheduled for April 13, 2023 at the offices of Sidley Austin at 787 7th Ave, New York, NY 10019. Please find the agenda for the Roundtable here.
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You can view the 2022 Financial Restructuring Roundtable program here.
Call For Papers
The Financial Restructuring Roundtable (formerly the West Coast Bankruptcy Roundtable) will be held in person on April 13, 2023 in New York City. Spearheaded by Tony Casey, Samir Parikh, Robert Rasmussen, and Michael Simkovic, this invitation-only event brings together practitioners, jurists, scholars, and finance industry professionals to discuss important financial restructuring and business law issues.
Young Soo Jang, Sarah Paterson (London School of Economics), and Adrian Walters (Chicago-Kent College of Law) are the 2023 call for papers winners.
The 2023 call for papers winners publications are below:
Jang, Young Soo, Five Facts About Direct Lending to Middle-Market Buyouts (December 4, 2022).
Paterson, Sarah and Walters, Adrian, Chapter 11's Inclusivity Problem (May 15, 2023).
The 2022 call for papers winners publications are below:
Vince S.J. Buccola, Sponsor Control: A New Paradigm for Corporate Reorganization, 90 University of Chicago Law Review 1 (2023)
Lynn M. LoPucki, Chapter 11’s Descent Into Lawlessness, 96 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 247 (2022)
Relevant Publications
Robert K. Rasmussen & Douglas G. Baird, "Anti-Bankruptcy" (John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics Working Paper No. 470, 2009).
Robert K. Rasmussen & Douglas G. Baird, "The End of Bankruptcy" (John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics Working Paper No. 173, 2002).
Douglas G. Baird, Priority Matters: Absolute Priority, Relative Priority, and the Costs of Bankruptcy, 165 U. Pa. L. Rev. 785 (2017).
Douglas G. Baird, "Bankruptcy's Quiet Revolution" (Coase-Sandor Working Paper Series in Law and Economics No. 755, 2016).
Anthony J. Casey, "Chapter 11's Renegotiation Framework and the Purpose of Corporate Bankruptcy," 120 Columbia Law Review 1709 (2020). ssrn www
Anthony J. Casey, "The New Corporate Web: Tailored Entity Partitions and Creditors’ Selective Enforcement," 124 Yale Law Journal 2680 (2015). ssrn cu www
Anthony J. Casey, "The Creditors' Bargain and Option-Preservation Priority in Chapter 11," 78 University of Chicago Law Review 759 (2011). ssrn cu
Anthony J. Casey, "The Hertz Maneuver (and the Limits of Bankruptcy Law)," Harvard Law School Bankruptcy Roundtable, January 12, 2021 (with Joshua C. Macey). www
Samir D. Parikh, Financial Disequilibrium, 171 University of Pennsylvania Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2023)
Samir D. Parikh, Scarlet-Lettered Bankruptcy: A Public Benefit Proposal for Mass Tort Villains, 117 Northwestern University Law Review 425 (2022)
Samir D. Parikh, The New Mass Torts Bargain, 91 Fordham Law Review 447 (2022)
Samir D. Parikh, Mass Exploitation, 170 University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online 53
Samir D. Parikh, Due Process Alignment in Mass Restructurings (with Sergio Campos), 91 Fordham Law Review 447 (2022)