TMA 2001 Annual Conference

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Agenda

Keynote Sessions

Plenary Sessions

Skill Builder Sessions

Advanced Educational Session

20th Anniversary Celebratory Dinner

Community Service Program

Certification Program/Sessions

Registration Policies

Cancellation/Substitution Policies

Hotel Reservations

Convention Sponsors

General Information

Attire

Continuing Education Credit

Exhibit Hall

Ground Transportation

Destination New Orleans

Questions

TMA 2008 Convention Page 16 of 16, Updated 8/5/08

Agenda

Saturday, October 25

9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. CTP Body of Knowledge Accounting & Finance Course*

4:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. CTP Accounting & Finance Exam*

Sunday, October 26

8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. CTP Body of Knowledge Management Course*

3:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. CTP Management Exam*

Monday, October 27

8:00 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. Registration Desk Open

9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. CTP Body of Knowledge Law Course*

8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. City Parks New Orleans Community Service Project

11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Exhibitor Move-in

3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Advanced Educational Session “Leading Turnarounds in Emerging Markets: Titan Chemicals Corp. Berhad”*

4:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. CTP Law Exam*

5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Exhibit Hall Wine and Cheese Reception

Co-sponsored in part by CRG Partners; Evercore Partners; and NRC Realty

Advisors, LLC

6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Opening Reception New Orleans Style

Co-sponsored by Conway MacKenzie & Dunleavy; Hunt Special Situations Group, L.P.; Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP; and RCS Real Estate Advisors

Tuesday, October 28

7:00 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. Registration Desk Open

7:00 a.m. – 7:45 a.m. Continental Breakfast

Sponsored by Carl Marks Advisory Group LLC

8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Convention Opening/Keynote Presentation by General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.)

Co-sponsored by AlixPartners; Accord Financial, Inc.; O’Keefe & Associates; and West, a Thomson Reuters business

9:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Exhibit Hall Open

9:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

Co-sponsored by Atlas Partners, LLC and Buccino & Associates, Inc.

10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Skill Builder Sessions

I. “Capital Markets 101”

II. “Power Negotiation and Conflict Resolution”

III. “Getting the Message Across: Effective Communication Strategies for Corporate Restructurings”

12:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Lunch, Presentation of Turnaround of the Year Awards and Carl Marks Student Paper Prizes, and Plenary Session, “Distressed Investors: Capitalizing on the Restructuring Process”

Co-sponsored in part byCarVal Investors; CIT; Morrison & Foerster; and Mesirow Financial

Consulting LLC

Tuesday, October 28 Cont’d

2:30 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. Exhibit Hall Open

2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Coffee Break

Wednesday, October 29

7:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Registration Desk Open

7:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Exhibit Hall Open

7:30 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. Continental Breakfast

Co-sponsored by Cooley Godward Kronish LLP; The Meridian Group; and Winston & Strawn LLP

8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Keynote Presentation by Bob Woodward, The Washington Post

Co-sponsored by Evercore Partners; Sitrick And Company; and Tatum LLC

10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

Thursday, October 30

8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Certification Oversight Committee Meeting

8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Chapter Presidents Meeting

* Additional fee required (see following pages/registration form for details)

Please note that private company events may not conflict with any scheduled activity of the TMA 2008 Annual Convention.

Keynote Speakers

General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.)

Tuesday, October 28, 8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. (time reflects entire opening session)

General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.) became the 65th Secretary of State on January 20, 2001. Previously, General Powell served as a key aide to the Secretary of Defense and as National Security Advisor to President Reagan. He also served 35 years in the United States Army, rising to the rank of Four-Star General and serving as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989 – 1993). During this time, he oversaw 28 crises to include the Panama intervention of 1989 and Operation Desert Storm in the victorious 1991 Persian Gulf War. This experience served him well following the events of September 11, 2001. A fervent champion of democratic values, General Powell stressed that fighting the war on terrorism is not just a military but also a diplomatic task. He led the State Department in major efforts to solve regional and civil conflicts and was especially concerned with the peace and security of Afghanistan and Iraq, countries where winning the peace is as important as Coalition battlefield victories.

In all areas, General Powell used the power of diplomacy and the universal ideal of democracy to build trust, forge alliances and then begin to transform these once-unstable regions into areas where societies and cultures prosper. General Powell was devoted to grasping opportunities as well as to confronting the global and regional security challenges of the 21st century. He was at the forefront of the administration's efforts to advance economic and social development worldwide – in the fight against HIV/AIDS, in the promise of the Millennium Challenge Account, the most significant change in helping needy nations since the Marshall Plan, and in pursuing a freer trading and investment climate worldwide. General Powell was the founding chairman of America’s Promise-The Alliance for Youth, a national crusade to improve the lives of the nation’s youth. He also served on the Board of Governors of The Boys & Girls Clubs of America and was a member of the Advisory Board of the Children's Health Fund.

Since returning to private life, General Powell has become a strategic limited partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the renowned Silicon Valley venture capital firm. He is also the founder of the Colin Powell Policy Center at his alma mater, the City College of New York, and is helping to raise funds for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C., and for the construction of an education center for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Bob Woodward

The Washington Post

Wednesday, October 29, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.

Bob Woodward has worked for The Washington Post since 1971. He has won nearly every American journalism award, and the Post won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for his work with Carl Bernstein on the Watergate scandal. In addition, Woodward was the main reporter for the Post’s articles on the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks that won the National Affairs Pulitzer Prize in 2002. Woodward won the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency in 2003. The Weekly Standard called Woodward “the best pure reporter of his generation, perhaps ever.” In 2003, Albert Hunt of The Wall Street Journal called Woodward “the most celebrated journalist of our age.” In 2004, Bob Schieffer of CBS News said, “Woodward has established himself as the best reporter of our time. He may be the best reporter of all time.” Woodward has co-authored or authored eleven #1 national best-selling non-fiction books -- more than any contemporary American writer. Woodward’s other three books were national best sellers for months. Newsweek magazine has excerpted six of Woodward’s books in headline-making cover stories, 60 Minutes has done pieces on five of his books and three of his books have been made into movies.

Chris Gardner

Author, book-turned-movie The Pursuit of Happyness

Wednesday, October 29, 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. (time reflects entire lunch program)

Chris Gardner is the head of his own successful brokerage firm, living the life he had always dreamed of. But, his path to success took a series of extraordinary turns. Just 20 years ago, Gardner was homeless, trying to support his son as a single parent. Always hard-working and tenacious, a series of circumstances in the early 1980’s left Gardner homeless in San Francisco and the sole guardian of his toddler son. Unwilling to give up Chris Jr., or his dream of financial independence, Gardner started at the bottom. Without connections or a college degree, he earned a spot in the Dean Witter Reynolds training program. Often spending his nights in a church shelter or the bathroom at a Bay Area Rapid Transit station in Oakland, Gardner was the sole trainee offered the job. He spent 1983-1987 at Bear Stearns & Co., where he became a top earner and, in 1987, he founded the brokerage firm Gardner Rich & Co. in Chicago. Gardner's first book, The Pursuit of Happyness, an account of his life story, wasreleased in June 2006. Two years later, the blockbuster film of the book was released, starring Will Smith. Currently, Gardner supports many programs serving the homeless, donating time and assistance. He also serves as a board member of the National Fatherhood Initiative, whose mission is to improve the well-being of children by increasing the proportion of children growing up with involved, responsible and committed fathers. Gardner was the recipient of the group’s Father of the Year Award in 2002.

Plenary Sessions

Tuesday, October 28, 12:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (time reflects entire lunch session)

“Distressed Investors: Capitalizing on the Restructuring Process”

Moderator: Henry S. Miller, Miller Buckfire & Co., LLC

Panel: Jeffrey H. Aronson, Centerbridge Partners, L.P.; Robert N. Dangremond, CTP, AlixPartners; Hon. Robert D. Drain, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York; Brad E. Scheler, Fried Frank

Distressed investors have become fixtures of the corporate restructuring landscape. Highly sophisticated hedge funds, CDOs and other non-traditional capital providers have emerged, creating a new class of constituents who are using a variety of strategies to reshape the restructuring process. Distressed investors have created lucrative opportunities by exerting significant influence through acquiring fulcrum securities of underperforming companies in what has become a much more litigious restructuring environment. In addition, some “unintentional” distressed investors that would have otherwise been able to lay off risk have now found themselves in the distressed investing business. This panel of experts will share their perspectives on the current landscape, these issues and more.

Tuesday, October 28, 3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

“Distressed Investing: How to Make Money in 2009”

Moderator: James H.M. Sprayregen, Goldman Sachs & Co.

Panel: Ronald F. Greenspan, FTI Consulting, Inc.; Robert Mellman, JPMorgan; David L. Resnick, Rothschild, Inc.; Gregory L. Segall, Versa Capital Management

The unraveling of the residential real estate and mortgage markets that began in Q3 2007 began a chain of events that spread throughout the corporate debt markets creating turbulence in many industries.For both the distressed investor and restructuring professional, the current environment creates many new opportunities.This panel of seasoned professionals and thought leaders will explore the state of the economy and provide perspective on current trends and views on the sectors of the economy where opportunities will lie in 2009.

Wednesday, October 29, 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.

“Chaos in the Boardroom: A Day in the Life of a Director in a Distressed Company”

Moderator: Frank A. Merola, Jefferies & Company, Inc.

Panel: D.J. (Jan) Baker, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP; Marcia L. Goldstein, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP; F. Duffield Meyercord, Carl Marks Advisory Group LLC; Robert Stevens (Steve) Miller, Delphi Corporation

When a company is in financial distress, the world for the board of directors is turned upside down. The expansion of the board of directors' duty to act in the best interest of stakeholders, the numerous issues boards face at different points in the turnaround and the periodic threat of litigation against the board create unique dynamics in the boardrooms of today’s troubled companies. For those who advise and sit on boards of companies involved in a restructuring, hear from the experts as to what board members endure, their concerns and the issues that are top of mind.

Wednesday, October 29, 12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.

“Practical Considerations and Ethical Issues in Challenging Financial Environments”

Moderator: Hon. Barbara J. Houser, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Texas

Panel: Hon. Kevin J. Carey, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware; Hon. Randall L. Dunn, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Oregon; Hon. Robert E. Gerber, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York; Hon. Paul M. Glenn, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Middle District of Florida

Ethics is always an issue of concern, not just for lawyers but for all professionals involved in the restructuring and corporate renewal industry. The recognition and proper resolution of ethical issues is particularly crucial when the actions of the professionals facing these issues are scrutinized both by adverse parties and the judge in a bankruptcy case or other legal proceeding. As the economic and financial environment becomes ever more challenging, restructuring and corporate renewal professionals will likely find themselves having their ethical decisions scrutinized and challenged in court with increasing frequency. This panel of seasoned and respected bankruptcy judges from across the United States will share their views on these issues.

Skill Builder Sessions

Tuesday, October 28, 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.

I: “Capital Markets 101”

Moderator: Saul E. Burian, Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin

Panel: Edward Albert, Fortress Investment Group LLC; Adrian R. Frankum, FTI Consulting, Inc.; Guity Javid, Spring Street Capital; W. Jerome McDermott, GE Corporate Financial Services