Restructure This! Episode 3: Canada: Cannabis Boom or Bust? with Kathryn Esaw and Susan Newell
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Release Date: 02/09/2022
Restructure This! Episode 27: What You Always Wished You Knew About Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors with David M. Johnson and Molly Froschauer of Resolution Financial Advisors
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Sheppard Mullin's Restructure THIS! podcast explores the latest trends and controversies in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, commercial insolvency and distressed investing. In this week's episode, David Johnson and Molly Froschauer of Resolution Financial Advisors join host Justin Bernbrock to discuss Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors (ABCs), including advantages and disadvantages compared to traditional bankruptcy options, the various ways an ABC can be leveraged and the acquisition opportunities they offer potential buyers. What We Discussed in this Episode What is an Assignment for...
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Restructure This! Episode 26: Turnaround and Performance Improvement Strategies with Kobus van der Zel [Replay]
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This episode is a replay of Episode 19 which originally aired on December 28, 2022, but includes updated restructuring news as of January 2024. Sheppard Mullin's Restructure THIS! podcast explores the latest trends and controversies in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, commercial insolvency and distressed investing. In this week's episode, we're joined by Kobus van der Zel, the owner of Ravinia Capital Performance Improvement, a financial advisory and investment firm in Chicago. In his conversation with host Justin Bernbrock, Kobus explains what his engineering background, military service in South...
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Restructure This! Episode 25: The Role of Professional Organizations in the Restructuring Industry with Scott Stuart of TMA
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Sheppard Mullin's Restructure THIS! podcast explores the latest trends and controversies in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, commercial insolvency and distressed investing. In this episode, Scott Stuart, CEO of Turnaround Management Association (commonly referred to as "TMA”), joins us to discuss the role of professional organizations in the restructuring space, including what distinguishes TMA from similar organizations, the importance of its diverse membership, and how restructuring has evolved over the last 30+ years. What We Discussed In this Episode: What brought you to where you are...
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Restructure This! Episode 24: Supporting Sovereign Entities in Troubled Financial Waters with Natalie Jaresko
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Sheppard Mullin's Restructure THIS! podcast explores the latest trends and controversies in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, commercial insolvency and distressed investing. In this episode, Natalie Jaresko from EY-Parthenon joins us to discuss her impressive background and storied career. She also breaks down some of the nuts and bolts of restructuring, lessons she learned in her role in Ukraine and Puerto Rico, and how governments can best serve themselves. What We Discussed in This Episode: What is the difference between restructuring a sovereign or municipal bankruptcy? What role does the...
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Restructure This! Episode 23: Building a Bankruptcy Juggernaut with James (“Jamie”) H. M. Sprayregen [Replay]
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This episode is a replay of Episode 2 which originally aired on January 19, 2022. In this episode, we speak with James (“Jamie”) H. M. Sprayregen, partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and founder of the firm’s powerhouse bankruptcy restructuring practice. Few know the story of how Jamie built the practice from humble beginnings starting in 1990. In a frank interview, Jamie describes the vision he had three decades ago, the challenges he encountered along the way, and the banner chapter 11 cases—Zenith Electronics, United Airlines—that he believes helped to shape the...
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Restructure This! Episode 22: D&O Risks in an Unstable Economy with Paul Figliozzi and Michael Gil of Marsh
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Sheppard Mullin's Restructure THIS! podcast explores the latest trends and controversies in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, commercial insolvency and distressed investing. In this episode, Paul Figliozzi and Michael Gil of Marsh join us to discuss the critical issue of director and officer risk, particularly in the context of an unstable economy and financially distressed companies. What We Discussed in This Episode: How has the recent uptick in restructuring activity and the banking crisis impacted the D&O market in terms of the claims you're seeing and with respect to premiums? ...
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Restructure This! Episode 21: Real Estate Restructuring – Views from Another Side with Emily S. Gottlieb
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Sheppard Mullin's Restructure THIS! podcast explores the latest trends and controversies in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, commercial insolvency and distressed investing. In this week's episode, we delve into real estate development with Emily Gottlieb of AW Properties Global, including discussing commercial-to-residential conversions, redeveloping vacant land, and more. What We Discussed in This Episode: What got you interested in restructuring? What is your precise role at AW Properties? What does your day-to-day look like? What correlations can you draw between your current role and...
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Restructure This! Episode 20: 3M: The Controversy of MDL in Chapter 11 with Ashley Barriere
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Sheppard Mullin's Restructure THIS! podcast explores the latest trends and controversies in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, commercial insolvency and distressed investing. In this week's episode, we welcome Ashley Barriere, partner at Keller Postman LLC, to discuss the 3M Combat Arms Earplug multidistrict litigation and the subsequent Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing by 3M subsidiary Aearo Technologies from the perspective of the plaintiffs she represents: military veterans seeking recovery for injuries related to the earplugs. What We Discussed in This Episode: The 3M Combat Arms Earplug...
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Restructure This! Episode 19: Turnaround and Performance Improvement Strategies with Kobus van der Zel
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Sheppard Mullin's Restructure THIS! podcast explores the latest trends and controversies in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, commercial insolvency and distressed investing. In this week's episode, we're joined by Kobus van der Zel, the owner of Ravinia Capital Performance Improvement, a financial advisory and investment firm in Chicago. In his conversation with host Justin Bernbrock, Kobus explains what his engineering background, military service in South Africa and the Myers-Briggs personality test has to do with financial turnarounds. What We Discussed in This Episode: Looking back...
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Restructure This! Episode 18: The Gender Gap in Restructuring with Cullen Drescher Speckhart and Rachel Ehrlich Albanese [Replay]
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This episode is a replay of Episode 13 which originally aired on September 7, 2022. Sheppard Mullin's Restructure THIS! podcast explores the latest trends and controversies in chapter 11 bankruptcy, commercial insolvency, and distressed investing. In this week's episode, we're joined by Cullen Drescher Speckhart, Chair of Cooley's business restructuring & reorganization practice and partner in charge of its Washington, DC office, and Rachel Ehrlich Albanese, Chair of DLA Piper's U.S. Restructuring practice and a partner in the firm's New York office, to discuss the ever-present...
info_outlineCanada legalized recreational cannabis in 2018, but the legal cannabis market continues to struggle even three years later. Observers blame overregulation by both federal and provincial regimes, high taxation, and a thriving black market that continues to sell cannabis at much lower prices. What has this meant for cannabis bankruptcies in Canada, and what lessons can the U.S. learn? We speak with Kathryn Esaw, partner in the Insolvency and Restructuring group at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, and Susan Newell, partner in Osler’s Health Industry and Cannabis groups. Kathryn’s practice focuses on proceedings under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act throughout Canada. She has represented debtors, court officers, creditors, purchasers and lenders. Kathryn also has experience in restructurings under the Canada Business Corporations Act. Susan provides strategic advice to health industry stakeholders in connection with mergers and acquisitions, healthcare corporate restructurings and integrations, corporate governance matters, shareholders agreements, commercial agreements, outsourcing, clinical trial agreements and regulatory opinions in connection with federal and provincial health and cannabis statutes. Susan regularly advises cannabis license holders and other industry participants with navigating Canadian commercial operations within the cannabis regulatory environment, including licensing, supply agreements and promotional and advertising activities.
What We Discussed in This Episode:
- What Canada’s federal Cannabis Act governs and the objectives behind the legislation
- What aspects of recreational cannabis sales that the provincial laws govern
- How the Canadian regime differs substantially from the US, where cannabis is still banned at the federal level but over a dozen states have legalized and regulated it
- The structural challenges that legal recreational cannabis market in Canada faces
- How the COVID-19 pandemic impacted cannabis bankruptcies
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