KAREN M. GEBBIA, MODERATOR

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1 WHITMAN L. HOLT Fleur de Lis 1:00 2:45 pm CLLA LUNCHEON: & THE SUPREME COURT Whitman Holt is a partner of Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP in Los Angeles, California. Mr. Holt has represented clients across the bankruptcy spectrum, including borrowers in and out of court, debtors subject to involuntary bankruptcy petitions, municipal debtors, official committees, secured creditors in and out of bankruptcy, hedge and distressed debt funds, equity sponsors, plaintiffs and defendants in bankruptcy-related litigation, and purchasers of assets via chapter 11 plans and section 363 sales. Mr. Holt also has significant experience regarding various alternative insolvency regimes, including bank and thrift receiverships under title 12 of the U.S. Code and proceedings for troubled insurers under state law, and has successfully litigated tax refund ownership and other disputes against the FDIC. Mr. Holt s active bankruptcy-related appellate practice includes briefing multiple matters before the Supreme Court of the United States, including the prevailing merits brief in the landmark Stern v. Marshall case. Mr. Holt is the co-author (with Kenneth N. Klee) of Bankruptcy and the Supreme Court: (West Academic 2015), and is a contributing author to Collier on Bankruptcy. He has also guest lectured about bankruptcy and tax law at the UCLA, USC, and Loyola Law Schools. Mr. Holt has consistently been recognized as one of the top young corporate bankruptcy and restructuring attorneys in California by Super Lawyers Magazine and by Chambers & Partners. Mr. Holt is a graduate of Bates College (B.A., 2002, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) and Harvard Law School (J.D., 2005, cum laude). Speaker Bios Page 1

2 KENNETH N. KLEE Fleur de Lis 1:00 2:45 pm CLLA LUNCHEON: & THE SUPREME COURT Kenneth Klee is a nationally recognized expert on bankruptcy law. He is a professor emeritus at the UCLA School of Law and a founding partner of Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP, specializing in corporate reorganization, insolvency, and bankruptcy law. From 1974 to 1977, Professor Klee served as associate counsel to the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives, where he was one of the principal drafters of the 1978 Bankruptcy Code. He served as a consultant on bankruptcy legislation to the U.S. Department of Justice in From , he served as a member of the Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules to the Judicial Conference of the United States. From , and previously from , Professor Klee served as a lawyer delegate to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference. Professor Klee served from as one of 18 voting Commissioners on the American Bankruptcy Institute's Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. He served as member of the executive committee of the National Bankruptcy Conference from 2011 to 2014, 2005 to 2008, and 1985 to He also served as Chair of the NBC s Committee to Rethink Chapter 11 form 2011 to 2014 and as chair of its legislation committee from 1992 to Professor Klee is a past president and member of the board of governors of the Financial Lawyers Conference. On several occasions, Law Dragon has included him among the top 500 lawyers in the United States. From he was named by the Daily Journal as one of California s Top 100 Lawyers. In the February 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 editions of Los Angeles Magazine, he was named one of the Top 10 Super Lawyers for Los Angeles County. In March 2005, he was named by the Century City Bar as Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year. In November 2006, the Central District of California Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys Association bestowed on him the Calvin Ashland Award as consumer bankruptcy attorney of the year. In October, 2007 he received the Excellence in Education Award from the Endowment for Education of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. In April 2010, the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys conferred on Prof. Klee their Champion of Consumer Rights award. In August 2010, he received (with Prof. Bussel) the American Bankruptcy Law Journal s 2010 Editors Prize for the best published article. In 2015 he received (with Richard Levin) the American College of Bankruptcy's Distinguished Service Award. Professor Klee has co-authored Bankruptcy and the Supreme Court: (West Academic 2015, with Whitman L. Holt), Business Reorganization in Bankruptcy (with Scarberry, 1995, 2d ed. 2001, 3d ed. 2006, 4th ed. 2011), and Fundamentals of Bankruptcy Law (4th ed., with Treister, 1996). He has authored or coauthored over 30 law review articles on bankruptcy law. Professor Klee recently represented defendants Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and Kerr McGee in Tronox v. Anadarko (Bankr. S.D.N.Y). During the summer of 2010, Professor Klee served as the appointed Examiner in the Tribune chapter 11 cases. He also represented Jefferson County, Alabama, in its successful Chapter 9 case from Professor Klee also serves clients as an expert witness, mediator, arbitrator, attorney, or consultant in his Chapter 11 business reorganization practice. Speaker Bios Page 2

3 KAREN M. GEBBIA, MODERATOR Professor Gebbia teaches business reorganization, bankruptcy, secured transactions, sales, contracts, business associations, and other commercial transactions courses at Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco. Previously, she was Professor of Law at the University of Hawai`i School of Law. She has received several awards for excellence in teaching. Her scholarship and speaking engagements focus on bankruptcy and commercial law, including complex intersections between the Bankruptcy Code and other law. Fleur de Lis 3:00 4:05 pm WHITE COLLAR CRIME, ASSET FORFEITURE & BUSINESS Before joining academia, Professor Gebbia practiced corporate restructuring and commercial transactions law for eleven years with Winston & Strawn and Nachman & Munitz. She earned her B.A. in Political Science, magna cum laude, from Villanova University, and her J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Gebbia is an active member of the American Bar Association Business Law Section, where she has held a variety of leadership positions over the years. Currently, she serves as Vice-Chair of the Business Law Section Publications Board, and as chair of the Business Bankruptcy Committee Publications & Content Subcommittee. She has chaired the Section s Working Group on White Collar Crime, Asset Forfeiture and Business Bankruptcy since its inception in 2010 (under the auspices of the Bankruptcy Court Structure and Insolvency Practices Committee, with support from the Business Bankruptcy Committee). Speaker Bios Page 3

4 RONALD PETERSON Ronald Peterson is a partner with Jenner & Block, where concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial, insolvency and bankruptcy law. He primarily represents debtors, trustees, creditors, committees, landlords and secured lenders in Chapter 11 cases in both insolvency litigation and transactional issues, including corporate restructurings. He is a member of the firm s Bankruptcy, Workout and Corporate Reorganization; Bankruptcy Litigation; Real Estate and Construction Litigation; and Corporate Finance Practices; and the Real Estate Finance Litigation and Workout Task Force. Fleur de Lis 3:00 4:05 pm WHITE COLLAR CRIME, ASSET FORFEITURE & BUSINESS Mr. Peterson is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, Commercial Law League of America, the Business Bankruptcy Committee of the Business Law Section, and the Bankruptcy Litigation Committee of the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association. He is a Director of the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees and a member of INSOL (International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals). Since 2003, Chambers & Partners has named him one of the country s leading lawyers in bankruptcy law. He is AV Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell s highest peer recognition for ethical standards and legal ability. Mr. Peterson is a prolific lecturer and writer on bankruptcy and commercial law issues. Mr. Peterson has been a member of the panel of Chapter 7 Trustees for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division since He has presided over numerous complex commercial cases, including Stotler & Co, the country s 10th largest commodities house, and Lancelot Investment, a $1.7 billion Ponzi scheme. Mr. Peterson has also served as examiner in Robert Lund, a large real estate developer and the Chairman of the Creditors Committee in Thomas J. Petters, a $3.5 billion Ponzi Scheme. Speaker Bios Page 4

5 MARK A. REDMILES Mark A. Redmiles has served in a bankruptcy and financial litigation leadership capacity for the Department of Justice for over thirteen years. Since 2012, he has been the Assistant Director for Asset Recovery Staff with the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys. Mr. Redmiles provides executive leadership to the bankruptcy, asset forfeiture, and financial litigation program areas and staff. Fleur de Lis 3:00 4:05 pm WHITE COLLAR CRIME, ASSET FORFEITURE & BUSINESS From 2002 to 2012, he was with the Executive Office for United States Trustees and was Deputy Director for five of those years. Mr. Redmiles served as a consultant to the U.S. Judicial Conference s Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules (Committee) from March 2005 to March On behalf of the Committee, he participated on working groups that developed official bankruptcy forms to implement the means testing provisions and bankruptcy rules to facilitate enhanced mortgage creditor claim disclosures. Mr. Redmiles also participated on the Committee s Bankruptcy Forms Modernization Project from January 2008 to March Mr. Redmiles served on the 2011 Education Program Planning Committee for the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. Mr. Redmiles also is a Professorial Lecturer in Law at the George Washington School of Law, where he teaches a Creditors Rights and Debtors Protection course. Speaker Bios Page 5

6 STEVEN RHODES Fleur de Lis 3:00 4:05 pm WHITE COLLAR CRIME, ASSET FORFEITURE & BUSINESS STEVEN RHODES was a United States Bankruptcy Judge in the Eastern District of Michigan (Detroit) for nearly 30 years until his retirement on February 18, He served as its chief judge from He was also appointed to the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Sixth Circuit from and , serving as its chief judge from He was an Associate Editor of the American Bankruptcy Law Journal, published by the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, from In 1995, he was inducted as a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. From , he was the Chair of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges Endowment for Education. From , he was Vice President for Research of the American Bankruptcy Institute and on its Executive Committee. On April 3, 2009, the ABI awarded him its 2009 Distinguished Service Award. He is also a co-author, with Kathy Bazoian Phelps, of THE PONZI BOOK: A LEGAL RESOURCE FOR UNRAVELING PONZI SCHEMES, published by Matthew Bender LexisNexis (March 2012). In July of 2013, the chief judge of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals appointed him to preside over the bankruptcy case of the City of Detroit, the largest municipal bankruptcy case ever filed, and he confirmed the City s plan of adjustment in November, Speaker Bios Page 6

7 MARK N. BERMAN Mark Berman is a member of Nixon Peabody LLP s Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy Practice Group, resident in its Boston and New York City offices. Mark is a 1976 graduate of Boston College Law School and a 1973 graduate of Northwestern University. He is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy for which he serves as Regent for the First Circuit and has Sparkle East 4:10 5:15 pm VACCINATIONS! HELPING CLIENTS ENHANCE RIGHTS & MINIMIZE RISK DURING THE LULL been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 1989, in America s Leading Lawyers (Chambers USA) since 2004 and in numerous other national and international publications for his proficiency in bankruptcy law. In addition to his traditional bankruptcy work involving chapter 7, 9 or 11 cases and out of court restructurings, Mark also works with the Firm s finance attorneys, assisting in the process of structuring financing transactions to create predictability in the context of the potential insolvency of one or more of the participant entities, as well as with the preparation or review of various transaction documents including true sale and nonconsolidation opinions along with intercreditor and subordination agreements used in second lien and subordinated debt financings. His efforts have included work on financing municipalities, infrastructure, real estate, sports teams and stadiums, manufacturing facilities, military housing, wind energy projects and the securitizations of various assets including accounts, leases and tobacco settlement payments. He is also currently teaching various courses as an adjunct professor at Northeastern University s D'Amore-McKim School of Business. Speaker Bios Page 7

8 LEYZA F. BLANCO Leyza F. Blanco, a founding shareholder in the Miami office of Gray Robinson, P.A., concentrates on complex business litigation, bankruptcy and insolvency matters representing creditors, receivers, assignees, trustees and debtors. She has served as mediator, examiner, receiver, special master and as an expert witness in federal and state court proceedings. Her practice in the area of restructuring and creditors' rights is currently focused on complex business and cross-border bankruptcy and commercial litigation matters. Sparkle East 4:10 5:15 pm VACCINATIONS! HELPING CLIENTS ENHANCE RIGHTS & MINIMIZE RISK DURING THE LULL Leyza received her Juris Doctor degree magna cum laude from the University of Miami Law School. Leyza is currently Chair of the Inclusion/Mentoring/Fellowship Committee of the Florida Bar s Business Law Section and is on the board the International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation. She is a past president of the Bankruptcy Bar of the Southern District of Florida and past chair of the Florida Bar Business Law Section s Bankruptcy/UCC Committee and Bankruptcy Judicial Liaison Committee. Leyza was awarded the Key Partners Award by the South Florida Business Journal in 2012 and was recently recognized in the Wall Street Journal among the Top 50 Women Attorneys in Florida in 2013 and Top 100 Lawyers in Miami- Dade County. She is a 2014 Fellow for the Legal Council Legal Diversity and a member of Leadership Florida Clase XXXII. Leyza is ranked in Chambers USA, and has been named a Florida Super Lawyer and Top Lawyer by Florida Trend s Legal Elite. Speaker Bios Page 8

9 THE HON. CARLOTA M. BÖHM Sparkle East 4:10 5:15 pm VACCINATIONS! HELPING CLIENTS ENHANCE RIGHTS & MINIMIZE RISK DURING THE LULL Judge Böhm was appointed to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania in Judge Böhm started her career as a law clerk to two Bankruptcy Judges and was in private practice in the bankruptcy / commercial law area since She also was a Bankruptcy Trustee for over 30 years and has been a mediator in many matters. She practiced law at Houston Harbaugh, P.C. from and was a partner in Schaffler & Böhm prior to that. She is fluent in Spanish, being born in Bueños Aires, Argentina; graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a B.S. and received an M.A. and J.D. Degree from Duquesne University. Judge Böhm was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania in 1979 and the Supreme Court of the United States in She has been listed Pennsylvania Super Lawyer and has an AV rating in the Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating System. She is very active in numerous organization, including; the Allegheny County Bar Association, Commercial Law League Association, The Judith K.Fitzgerald Western Pennsylvania Bankruptcy American Inn of Court and the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. She is a frequent lecturer on various topics, including bankruptcy, legal ethics, and commercial law. Speaker Bios Page 9

10 HON. CLIFTON R. JESSUP, JR. Clifton R. Jessup, Jr. was appointed the United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of Alabama, Northern Division on March 2, He was formerly a principal shareholder in the Dallas office of the international law firm of Greenburg Traurig, LLP where he concentrated his practice in business reorganization and bankruptcy. Sparkle East 4:10 5:15 pm VACCINATIONS! HELPING CLIENTS ENHANCE RIGHTS & MINIMIZE RISK DURING THE LULL During his 35 plus years of bankruptcy-related practice before taking the bench, Clifton represented secured creditors, unsecured creditors, committees, equity holders, debtors, and trustees in federal bankruptcy cases in over 37 states and Puerto Rico. He also represented purchasers of assets in bankruptcy cases, and served as examiner and mediator in many cases. In 2001, he was selected as the Liquidating Trustee under the confirmed Chapter 11 Plan in the Baptist Foundation of Arizona, the largest not-for-profit bankruptcy cases filed to date. The cases involved over 13,000 investors and claims in excess of $600 million. In 2009, he represented the Opus West Corporation in a Chapter 11 case involving over 50 commercial real estate properties in Arizona, California and Texas with claims in excess of $1.2 billion. Professional and Community Involvement Member, Advisory Committee to the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11 Member, Texas State Bar Member, American Bar Association Past Master in the John C. Ford American Inns of Court, Dallas Past Member, North Texas Regional Mental Health Board Past Member of Board of Trustees, Oakwood University, Huntsville, Alabama Awards and Recognition Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Litigation Bankruptcy Speaker Bios Page 10

11 JOSEPH SAMET Sparkle East 4:10 5:15 pm VACCINATIONS! HELPING CLIENTS ENHANCE RIGHTS & MINIMIZE RISK DURING THE LULL Joseph Samet has been a partner and member of Baker & McKenzie's Global Recovery, Restructuring and Bankruptcy Group, residing in the New York office. Mr. Samet retired from the firm on June 30, He continues to teach, write, mediate, and be active in the field. Since 1975, Mr. Samet has been immersed in a national and international workouts and restructuring, chapter 11 reorganizations, distressed sales of assets, SIPC and bankruptcy practice, representing all parties in interest. This includes cross-border issues and chapter 15 cases. He also counsels parties in interest and transactional lawyers on potential creditors rights/bankruptcy implications of deals, sales, distressed investments and litigation settlements they are considering. His experience includes structured finance, corporate governance, preand post-bankruptcy litigation, negotiations and mediation. He counsels on insurance, monolines and bank liquidations, and advises boards of directors. He analyzes executory contract issues, including licenses for businesses in the e-commerce economy, and gives written opinions and analysis in transactions, including in securitizations. His practice has involved diverse commercial businesses, including in manufacturing, financial services, retail, service, airlines, energy, healthcare, real estate, e-commerce, sports and telecommunications. The work includes prosecution and defense of preference, fraudulent conveyance, equitable subordination and substantive consolidation actions, officer/director liability and Ponzi scheme issues, and related litigation. He counsels professional firms and their partners and shareholders on risk management, unfinished business and clawback type issues. Mr. Samet has prepared expert reports and testified as an expert witness in jury trials and in an international arbitration. He is on the SDNY bankruptcy court mediation panel and has taken meditation training courses in 1994 and Mr. Samet is the principal co-author of the two-volume annotated Herzog s Bankruptcy Forms and Practice published by Thomson Reuters. He has been a contributing author of Collier on Bankruptcy, 15th Edition, and the Collier Bankruptcy Practice Guide treatises, having written and updated for many years three chapters on voluntary and involuntary bankruptcies totaling approximately 400 printed pages. He has also written or co-authored numerous published articles and outlines in the insolvency field, including on Arbitration and Intellectual Property in Bankruptcy; Breakup Fees and Topping Agreements in Sales of Assets; Multinational Insolvencies; Duties of Officers and Directors and Liability Issues; Unfinished Business; Mediation; Partners and Partnerships. Since 1981, he has chaired, moderated or lectured at over 250 CLE and Industry programs in the U.S. and other countries on pre-bankruptcy restructuring and bankruptcy-related issues, including programs sponsored by organizations such as the National Bankruptcy Judges Conference, the Speaker Bios Page 11

12 Practising Law Institute, The American Bankruptcy Institute, the Commercial Law League, the Turnaround Management Association, and INSOL. He is chair of the annual PLI programs Current Developments in Bankruptcy and Reorganizations , and also Recent Developments in Distressed Debt, Restructurings and Workouts He has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, and has served as a member of bankruptcy committees of national and local bar associations. Mr. Samet has been regularly selected by Super Lawyers as one of the Leading Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers, the Best Lawyers in America, in Banking and Finance Law, and Who s Who in America. He received the 2004 Burton Award for Legal Writing at the Library of Congress as co-author of the article entitled When Worlds Collide: Intellectual Property and Arbitration Rights in Bankruptcy Cases. Speaker Bios Page 12