Recent case law developments important to lenders and secured creditors including: 

• Required interest payments to creditors of a solvent debtor in a Chapter 11 plan;

• Potential enforcement of a guarantor’s obligations for defaulted debts after the guarantor’s bankruptcy discharge;

• Traps for the unwary in enforcing security interests in a debtor’s litigation claims, including those against company directors and officers; and

• Issues in recovering attorneys’ fees on tort claims against a contract counterparty.

• This panel, comprised of four bankruptcy attorneys with decades of extensive experience in such matters, will discuss developments in the case law of particular interest to California practitioners, as well as some "best practices."