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Upcoming CLE

Financial Statements, Monthly Operating Reports and Other Things That Just Don’t Add Up

April 23, 2025 1-2 pm LIVESEM

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Today’s speakers will provide an overview of how to decipher information contained in financial statements, monthly operating reports, and other commonly used financial documents.

FACULTY

Edward (Ted) Burr heads up Mac Restructuring Advisors.  Ted has more than 30 years of corporate restructuring experience.  He has served as a financial and restructuring expert to both debtors and creditors.  He has testified in federal bankruptcy court on a variety of issues including feasibility matters, cram down interest rates, 1111(b) election issues, business valuation, and many more.  Ted is a nationally recognized expert particularly on feasibility and cram down interest rate matters. Ted is also a Subchapter V Bankruptcy Trustee for Regions 14 and 17.

Bart Larsen, of Shea Larsen, has over 20 years of experience in bankruptcy, commercial litigation, and real estate law. He represents creditors and debtors in Chapter 11 proceedings and has extensive experience litigating complex UCC and landlord-tenant disputes. Bart played a key role in drafting Nevada’s first commercial leasing statute in 2011 and has testified before the legislature on amendments to eviction and detainer statutes. He also advises borrowers and lenders on foreclosures, loan restructurings, and lender liability litigation.

James Patrick Shea, of Shea Larsen, has over 40 years of experience advising financial institutions, landlords, vendors, creditors’ committees, debtors, bankruptcy trustees and other parties in business bankruptcy proceedings. Jim also advises clients in commercial litigation relating to other aspects of the debtor-creditor relationship, including the enforcement of their rights in liquidations, receiverships, litigation, and informal out-of-court workouts. Nationally recognized in the field of commercial insolvency and reorganization, he is the former president, and past chairman of the board of the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI). He serves as the chair of ABl’s Civility Task Force and is a former program chair of ABl’s Southwest Bankruptcy Conference.

Presented by the Bankruptcy Section


About the Section

Purpose:

To enhance the role and skills of lawyers engaged in the practice of bankruptcy law through study, collection, development and dissemination of materials on subjects of interest to the bankruptcy law practitioner; to assist in the formulation, administration and implementation of programs, forums, and other activities for the education of members of the State Bar of Nevada in matters pertaining to bankruptcy laws and regulations; and to act upon all matters germane to its purposes as so described or referred to it by the Board of Governors.

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Officers

Chair: James Patrick Shea
Shea Larsen
1731 Village Center Circle, Suite 150
Las Vegas, NV 89134
jshea@shea.law
 
Vice-Chair: Danielle N. Gueck-Townsend
Kathleen A. Leavitt, Chapter 13 Trustee

711 South 4th Street, Suite 101
Las Vegas, NV  89101
Danielle@las13.com
 
Secretary: Connor Shea
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
100 North City Parkway, Suite 100
Las Vegas  NV  89106
cshea@bhfs.com
 
Treasurer: Ace C. Van Patten
Alberti Law
7201 W. Lake Mead
Suite 550
Las Vegas, NV 89128
avanpatten@alaw.net
 
Events Chair: Bart Larsen
Shea Larsen
1731 Village Center Circle, Suite 150
Las Vegas, NV 89134
blarsen@shea.law
 
Education Chair: Lars Evensen
Holland & Hart
955 Hillwood Dr., Second Floor
Las Vegas, NV 89134
lkevensen@hollandhart.com
 
Communications Chair: Seth J. Adams
Woodburn and Wedge
6100 Neil Road, Suite 500
Reno, NV 89511-1159
sadams@woodburnandwedge.com

 

Staff Liaison  | Claudia Mason | claudiam@nvbar.org

Board Liaison | Seth Adams |sadams@woodburnandwedge.com

Dues: Annual dues are $25


Resources:

Southern Nevada Association of Bankruptcy Attorneys Officers

President: Laura Fritz
Andrew S. T. Fritz, Ltd.
609 South 7th Street
Las Vegas, NV 89101
702-383-5155
fritzlawyers@lvcoxmail.com
 
Secretary/Treasurer: Amanda Hunt Rick A. Yarnall, Chapter 13 Trustee 701 Bridger Ave, Suite 820 Las Vegas, NV 89101 702-853-4500 Amanda@lasvegas13.com
 
Director: Blakeley Griffith
The Law Offices of Snell & Wilmer
3883 Howard Hughes Parkway, Ste 1100
Las Vegas, NV  89169-5958
(702) 784-5200
bgriffith@swlaw.com
 
Director: Danielle N. Gueck-Townsend
Kathleen A. Leavitt, Chapter 13 Trustee

711 South 4th Street, Suite 101
Las Vegas, NV  89101
Danielle@las13.com
 
Northern Nevada Bankruptcy Bar Association

NNBBA President
Seth J. Adams
6100 Neil Road, Suite 500
Reno, NV 89511-1159
775-688-3000
sadams@woodburnandwedge.com

 

NNBBA Vice President
Stephen R. Harris
Harris Law Practice
6151 Lakeside Dr., Suite 2100
Reno, NV 89501
steve@harrislawreno.com
 
Meeting Minutes:
2019February