Providing a preview of ABI’s upcoming Legislative Symposium to examine the future of corporate restructurings on a policy level, ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano speaks with the architect of the event, ABI President Bob Keach of Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson PA (Portland, Maine). The “Chapter 11 at the Crossroads: Does Reorganization Need Reform?” Legislative Symposium will take place at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 16-17. Funded by ABI’s Anthony H.N. Schnelling Endowment Fund, the Symposium is a free event for ABI members, congressional staff, researchers, scholars and the press. The Symposium faculty will re-examine the traditional framework of insolvency law against today’s headlines and consider new ways going forward.
Monthly Archive for September, 2009
As high levels of household debt look to push over 1.4 million Americans into bankruptcy in 2009, ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano discusses consumer addiction to debt with Dr. Charles Geisst, the author of the recently published Collateral Damaged: The Marketing of Consumer Debt to America. Professor of finance at Manhattan College and author of seventeen books, Dr. Geisst extensively studies and writes about issues concerning consumer debt and finance from Wall Street to main street America. The podcast examines the history of consumer debt and what policies and proposals might be effective in reversing the current economic downturn.