A CONVERSATION WITH THE SECOND CIRCUIT LEGENDS OF BANKRUPTCY

November 20, 2025
3:30 - 5:30 p.m.

We invite you to join the Second Circuit Fellows on the afternoon of November 20 for a roundtable with their senior Fellows, the Second Circuit Legends of Bankruptcy. The roundtable will consider how the two decades after enactment of the Bankruptcy Code laid the groundwork for today’s bankruptcy practice. The period between 1978 and 2000 saw a number of “firsts”:

•  The first “mega” cases and enactment of Sections 1113 and 1114
• Marathon Pipeline and the revamping of bankruptcy court jurisdiction
• The first mass tort cases and enactment of Section 524(g)
• The first section 363 “substantially all” sales
• The invention of “junk” bonds and the collapse of Drexel Burnham
• The first prepackaged Chapter 11s
• The amendment to Rule 3001 that created today’s claim trading markets
• The first “loan to own” acquisitions using bankruptcy claims
• The first bankruptcy mediations
• The first big international cases leading to enactment of Chapter 15

The Second Circuit Legends and their contemporaries from other Circuits were involved in all of these developments. It will be a unique opportunity to learn from their first hand knowledge and to celebrate what they and their colleagues accomplished. Please click the button above to register.



Location

Hughes Hubbard & Reed

One Battery Park Plaza

10th Floor

New York, NY 10004

For further information, please contact:

Donald Bernstein, Scholar-in-Residence: donald.bernstein@davispolk.com

Katie Coleman, Co-Chair, Education Committee: katie.coleman@hugheshubbard.com

Lori Lapin Jones, Co-Chair, Education Committee: ljones@jonespllc.com