Financial Restructuring Roundtable

The Financial Restructuring Roundtable is an annual, invitation-only event that brings together practitioners, jurists, scholars, and finance industry professionals to discuss important financial restructuring and business law issues. The event includes panels and paper presentations that seek to create a meaningful dialogue between disparate groups.

Professors Samir Parikh, Robert Rasmussen, and Michael Simkovic are the founding members who work in partnership with Stephen Hessler and Anthony Grossi of Sidley Austin.

Thursday, April 4, 2024
787 7th Avenue
New York, NY 10019

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Michael Francus is the 2024 call-for-papers winner with his paper Mass Torts – From the Ground Up.

The 2024 call for papers winners publications are below:

Publication link forthcoming

Robert K. Rasmussen & Douglas G. Baird, "Anti-Bankruptcy" (John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics Working Paper No. 470, 2009).
Robert K. Rasmussen & Douglas G. Baird, "The End of Bankruptcy" (John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics Working Paper No. 173, 2002).
Douglas G. Baird, “Priority Matters: Absolute Priority, Relative Priority, and the Costs of Bankruptcy,” 165 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 785 (2017).
Douglas G. Baird, "Bankruptcy's Quiet Revolution" (Coase-Sandor Working Paper Series in Law and Economics No. 755, 2016).
Vince Buccola, Sponsor Control: A New Paradigm for Corporate Reorganizations, 90 University of Chicago Law Review 1 (2023) (2022 call-for-papers winner) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4170249
Lynn LoPucki, Chapter 11’s Decent into Lawlessness, 96 American Bankruptcy Law Journal (June 2022) (2022 call-for-papers winner) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3946577
Samir D. Parikh, “Financial Disequilibrium,” 171 University of Pennsylvania Law Review (forthcoming 2023)
Samir D. Parikh, “Scarlet-Lettered Bankruptcy: A Public Benefit Proposal for Mass Tort Villains,” 117 Northwestern University Law Review 425 (2022)
Samir D. Parikh, “The New Mass Torts Bargain,” 91 Fordham Law Review 447 (2022)
Samir D. Parikh, “Mass Exploitation,” 170 University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online 53
Samir D. Parikh, “Due Process Alignment in Mass Restructurings” (with Sergio Campos), 91 Fordham Law Review 447 (2022)
Samir D. Parikh, “Opaque Capital and Mass-Tort Financing,” 133 Yale Law Journal Forum 32 (2023) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4476937
Samir D. Parikh, “Creditors Strike Back: The Return of the Cooperation Agreement,” 73 Duke Law Journal Online (2023) (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4410235)
Samir D. Parikh, “Financial Disequilibrium,” 171 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1925 (2023) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4323945 [replacing the previous entry that did not have the full citation]
Michael Simkovic, “The Evolution of Valuation in Bankruptcy,” 91 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 301 (2017) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2810622
Michael Simkovic, “Leveraged Buyout Bankruptcies, the Problem of Hindsight Bias, and the Credit Default Swap Solution,” 2011 Columbia Business Law Review 1 (2011) (with Benjamin Kaminetzky) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1632084

Robert K. Rasmussen (bio)
Thomas McCarthy Trustee Chair in Law and Political Science
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Michael Simkovic (bio)
Leon Benwell Professor of Law and Accounting
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Samir Parikh (bio)
Professor of Law
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Stephen E. Hessler (bio)
Partner
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Anthony R. Grossi (bio)
Partner
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