8:00am – 9:00am

Breakfast

9:05am – 9:15am

Opening Remarks by Conference Chair

9:15am – 9:45am

Martin J. Whitman
Founder & Chairman
Third Avenue Management, LLC

9:50am – 10:30am

"Investing in Companies with Mass Tort Problems: Opportunities and Pitfalls"

Panel Discussion
Presented by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe

Moderator:
Roger Frankel
Co-Chair, Bankruptcy and Debt Restructuring
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Panelists: 
Joseph Radecki, Jr. 
Managing Director & Group Head
Piper Jaffray & Co.

Joseph Rice
Member
Motley Rice LLC

Marc Sole
Co-portfolio Manager, U.S. Credit Opportunities
The D. E. Shaw Group

10:30am – 11:00am

Coffee Break
Sponsored by Capital IQ

11:00am – 11:30am

Harvey R. Miller
Vice Chairman
Greenhill & Co.

11:35am – 12:15pm

"Distressed Markets: Investors’ Views for 2007"

Panel Discussion

Moderator:
Matt Meehan
Managing Director
Eos Partners

Panelists:
Brian E. Ramsay 
Managing Director 
Littlejohn & Co.

David Yu 
Director, Distressed Investments 
MetLife

Eric Zinterhofer
Partner
Apollo Management

12:15pm – 1:15pm

Lunch

1:15pm – 1:45pm

"Shareholder Activism: The Delivery of Pain"

Robert L. Chapman, Jr.
Managing Member 
Chapman Capital L.L.C.

1:50pm – 2:30pm

"How Private Equity and Hedge Funds Can Improve Operations in Distressed Portfolio Companies"

Panel Discussion 

Moderator:
Sheldon Hirshon
Partner
Proskauer Rose

Panelists:
Douglas Teitelbaum
Managing Partner
Bay Harbour Management

Jon Weber 
Special Situations Group
Goldman Sachs

Shary Moalemzadeh
Principal
The Carlyle Group

*This session is closed to the press

2:30pm – 3:00pm

Coffee Break

3:00pm – 3:30pm

Marc Lasry 
Managing Partner 
Avenue Capital Group

3:35pm – 4:15pm

"The Brave New World of Distressed"

Panel Discussion
Presented by: Loughlin Meghji + Company

Moderator:
Mohsin Y. Meghji
Principal and Managing Director
Loughlin Meghji + Company

Panelists:
John Brecker 
Principal 
Longacre Management, LLC

John (Jack) Wm. Butler, Esq.
Co-Head of Corporate Restructuring Practice
Skadden, Arps, Meagher, & Flom LLP

Penny G. Friedman
Executive Vice President
CIT Business Capital, Restructuring

4:20pm – 4:50pm

"Business and Politics From A Global Perspective"

Dan Quayle
Chairman
Cerberus Global Investments, LLC

Interviewed by:
Henny Sender
Senior Special Writer 
Wall Street Journal

4:55pm – 5:25pm

"Confessions of a Crisis Manager"

Robert S. “Steve” Miller
Executive Chairman
Delphi Corp

*This session is closed to the press

5:25pm – 5:30pm

Closing Remarks

5:30 – 6:30pm

Cocktail Reception

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