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We don't have to tell you that these are uncertain times. As if the global pandemic wasn't enough, we also have to contend with the macroeconomic and geopolitical consequences of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Many countries also are facing currency devaluation against the USD.

To ensure you're well-equipped to tackle any payment disputes that may arise from all this instability, join us for a webinar focused on international debt collection and the following:

• The limitation period and why it is important
• Retention of title and how to use it to your advantage
• Applicable law and international differences

To guarantee that you get tangible and practical advice, our lawyers will illustrate their points using examples from actual cases they recently handled.

About the Speakers

Alexandru Buzamet, Bierens Debt Recovery Lawyers

Alex Buzamet is a highly experienced international debt collection lawyer. For any unpaid invoices or disputed claims, you can count on Alex. Not only does Alex solve cases in Romania, but he can help you with payment disputes all over Europe. Alex always works with clients and provides customized solutions. With his perseverance, he makes sure that your case is solved successfully.

Alex is also the team leader of the international debt collection team at Bierens. He not only manages the international debt collection team, but he also ensures that knowledge and experiences are shared within the team that raise our international debt collection practices to the next level.

Tessa Plews, Bierens Debt Recovery Lawyers

Tessa is a qualified lawyer based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. With extensive experience in commercial debt recovery and enforcement, Tessa can assist international clients in a broad range of cases. Prior to joining Bierens, Tessa represented corporate clients in civil hearings across England, as such she is well equipped to deal with complex and high-value disputes. Alongside resolving matters amicably, Tessa enjoys providing clients with pragmatic and commercially tailored legal advice.

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News of cyberattacks and ransomware demands that impact businesses are, unfortunately, all too common. Credit professionals must develop a different perspective to risk management when dealing with the fallout of cyberattacks. This event created a key-learning opportunity that resulted from being forced into a manual operating system during the time it takes to restore access to data servers, files and computer software applications. This program is designed to share knowledge, insight and first-hand experience that could be exceptionally valuable, especially if the same thing happens to you!

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Brett Hanft, CBA, American International Forest Products

Brett M Hanft, CBA, credit manager at American International Forest Products, LLC, has 32 years of credit and risk management experience. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business/Economics from Willamette University in 1988. Brett received his Credit Business Associate (CBA) designation in 1991. He has been a consistent, active and participative member in NACM and CFDD for more than three decades. In 2021, Brett received the CFDD National Spirit Award and the NACM National Emerging Leader Award. Brett proudly serves on the NACM National Board as a Director, serving as the elected representative from the CFDD National Board. This year marks Brett’s 32nd consecutive year as a member of the CFDD Portland Chapter. Brett has completed 12 years of service on the CFDD National Board and is a CFDD Past National Chairman.

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All bad bosses have one thing in common: the belief they are too busy at any moment to be a good boss to their teams. No matter how much you have on your plate, how big your team of direct reports are or what circumstances surround your individual situation, I promise you there is no reason to be a bad boss. Join this session to learn the top habits of every great boss and how to be a better leader for your team. 

About the Speaker

Krystal Daugherty, CCE, Ferguson Enterprises

Krystal Daugherty, CCE has been with Ferguson Enterprises for nearly 20 years and is currently an Area Credit Manager. She has worked to help create and streamline processes within her department and is passionate about helping develop others and encouraging them to achieve their goals. She earned her CCE in 2009 after graduating from NACM’s Graduate School of Credit & Financial Management program.

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How to Lend to Business Borrowers Over the Business Cycle

As borrowers and lenders work through the business cycle, credit needs change as well. Lenders must be ready to recognize the changes and accommodate their clients’ requirements, and credit approvers must be prepared to evaluate and adjudicate the impact of these changes on underwriting, approval and credit risk management.

Business cycles are inevitable and risk managers must learn to identify and evaluate clients’ relative vulnerability to recessions.

In this session, you will learn:

• How borrowers’ credit needs change over four phases of business cycle
• Industries most vulnerable to recession and those industries less susceptible to recession
• Portfolio and credit management techniques and lending options over the business cycle
• A recession checklist to diagnose and improve cyclical commercial loan portfolio management

About the Speaker

Dev Strischek, Devon Risk Advisory Group

Dev Strischek is principal of Devon Risk Advisory Group and speaks on a wide range of credit risk, commercial banking and lending topics. As former SVP and senior credit policy officer at SunTrust Bank, Atlanta, he was responsible for developing, implementing and administering credit policies for SunTrust’s wholesale lines of business—commercial, commercial real estate, corporate investment banking, capital markets, business banking and private wealth management. He also spent three years as managing director and credit approver in SunTrust's Florida commercial lending and corporate investment banking areas, respectively.

Prior to SunTrust, Dev was chief credit officer for Barnett Bank's Palm Beach market. Besides stints at other banks in Florida, Kansas City and Ohio, Dev's experiences outside of banking include CFO of a Honolulu construction company, combat engineer officer in the U.S. Army, and college economics instructor in Hawaii, Missouri and Florida. A graduate of Ohio State University and the ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking, he earned his M.B.A. from the University of Hawaii.

Dev serves as an instructor at the Stonier Graduate School of Banking, the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking and the American Bankers Association's (ABA) Commercial Lending. His school, conference and workshop audiences have included participants drawn from the ABA, RMA, OCC, Federal Reserve, FDIC, FFIEC, SBA, the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) and the AICPA.

Dev has written about credit risk management, financial analysis and related subjects for the Risk Management Association's RMA Journal, and other business professional journals. He is the author of Analyzing Construction Contractors and its related RMA workshop. A past national chair of RMA and former Florida Chapter president, Dev serves as a member of the RMA Journal's advisory board. He also serves on the advisory board of the Atlanta Chapter of the Professional Risk Managers' International Association (PRMIA), and he has consulted on credit risk issues with banks in Morocco, Egypt and Angola through the U.S. State Department's Financial Service Volunteer Corps (FSVC). He also served on the Private Company Council (PCC) of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB); the PCC reviews current and proposed generally accepted principles (GAAP) and recommends revisions that simplify their use for privately held organizations.

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For many, conflict is something to be avoided at all costs. Unfortunately, avoiding conflict often leads to more complex issues. Join this session to learn vital conflict resolution skills including best practices to find grounding, communication structures, desolation techniques and establishing next steps to move forward. 

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Hailey Zureich, zHailey Coaching

Hailey Zureich is a certified Life Coach with 13-plus years of professional training and development experience. Her passion is in helping empower folks with tools to engage with others, elevate their skills and connect with themselves.

https://zhaileycoaching.com

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Preparation and proactivity are essential to surviving the increasingly tumultuous economy. Interest rates have skyrocketed. Lending standards are tightening. Conflicts between distributors and their customers are increasing. Year-over-year bankruptcy filings are up significantly in the last two months (Chapter 11 commercial filings were up 74% in November 2022).

In this live webinar, we will cover topics including:

• Bulletproofing your credit agreement
• Restructuring debt and securing repayment plans
• Enhancing prelawsuit collection efforts
• Dealing with the insolvent customer
• Bankruptcy strategies in how to avoid preference claims and basic bankruptcy law
• How to efficiently and effectively utilize your attorneys.

About the Speaker

Chris Ng, Gibbs Giden

Christopher Ng is an equity partner, executive committee member and the managing partner of Gibbs Giden. Chris primarily represents companies in a wide range of business, commercial and construction negotiations and disputes. Chris is a member of the State Bar of California and District of Columbia and licensed to practice in all California state and federal courts.  Chris is also an educator, active speaker, published author and frequent contributor to local, regional and national legal publications. For his achievements, Chris has been named to the “Rising Star” and “Super Lawyers” lists by Los Angeles Magazine and Super Lawyers® (Thomson Reuters) regularly since 2009 (including again in 2020), a distinction conferred upon less than 5% of all California attorneys. Chris was also named the 2015-2016 “Educator of the Year” by Credit Management Association (CMA).

Chris is nationally recognized in the field of construction law and regularly pens articles and contributes to treatises for construction industry professionals and other lawyers including publications by ENR Engineering News-Record, Wolters Kluwer Law & Business (California Construction Law), BNi® (Acret’s California Mechanics Lien Laws), the California Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB) (California Mechanics Liens and Related Construction Remedies and California Construction Contracts, Defects and Litigation) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Forum on the Construction Industry. 

In addition to his current position as an Adjunct Professor of Business Law at the School of Business and Economics at California State University Northridge, Chris has taught the Legal Environment of Business at Pepperdine University and has been a guest lecturer of construction law at Loyola Law School (Los Angeles).  Chris is also a frequent speaker and educator on construction law for organizations including the ABA, Los Angeles County Bar Association, CMA, Levelset, Lorman Education Services and American Society of Professional Estimators, and was a featured speaker at both the 2012 (Las Vegas) and the 2015 (Boca Raton) Annual ABA Forum on Construction Law meetings.  In 2013, Chris was appointed to the Division 9 Steering Committee of the ABA Forum on Construction Law primarily representing the interests of specialty trade contractors and suppliers in the construction industry on a national and global basis. Since 2015, Chris has served on the ABA Forum’s Diversity Committee, dedicated to raising awareness and understanding of the vital role diversity plays in the industry.

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Many companies are unaware of the risk of non-compliance with export laws. Join us for ths introductory session that will give your company the tools to assess potential gaps in your programs. We will cover several areas such as commodity classification of exported products, denied parties screening, diversion risk and proliferation concerns, export licensing overview and more.

We will also cover:

• Overview of the export administration regulations and the importance of implementing internal controls
• Commodity classification of exported products
• Denied parties screening
• End-use and end-user
• Diversion risk and proliferation concerns
• Export licensing overview
• Export compliance management system
• Compliance and risk management

About the Speaker

Jo-Anne DanielsTrade Resources & Associates

Jo-Anne Daniels has been a global trade industry consultant for over 25 years. She is the President and founder of Trade Resources & Associates, a consulting firm that specializes in cross-border transactions, trade compliance, and transportation management. She has been a Licensed Customs Broker for the past 25 years and has experience leading global trade compliance for multinational corporations, such as, Micron Technology, Inc., Aviza, Inc., Solectron, Applied Materials, and Siemens. She is a frequent invited speaker for trade association and logistics organization. Ms. Daniels has authored several industry publications and is the past President of the Professional Association of Exporters and Importers.

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Communication is at the foundation of successful credit management—but it is one of the hardest skills to master. We invite you to join this session and learn the elements of quality communication, how to improve listening skills as well as best practices for communicating in person, virtually, one-on-one and in groups. These skills can be utilized at work and in your interpersonal relationships.

About the Speaker

Hailey Zureich, zHailey Coaching

Hailey Zureich is a certified Life Coach with 13-plus years of professional training and development experience. Her passion is in helping empower folks with tools to engage with others, elevate their skills and connect with themselves.

https://zhaileycoaching.com

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Join us as we explore the critical but often confusing statutory requirements for preserving and enforcing lien and payment bond rights in Tennessee, whether in regard to commercial, residential or public projects. Join us to review handy and useful deadline information, and learn the technical mechanics of each step in the process of protecting the lien or payment bond rights of prime and subcontractors.

About the Speaker

David Huff, Smythe, Huff & Murphy, PC

In the practice of law since 1984, David O. Huff is a seasoned civil trial litigator whose areas of practice include creditors’ rights, lien enforcement, general commercial and business disputes, construction law, and arbitration. A native Nashvillian, David graduated from Abilene Christian University, cum laude, and from the Texas Tech University School of Law where he was an Editing Director of the Texas Tech Legal Research Board. In 1986, David earned a diploma from the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and was elected as a Fellow of the Nashville Bar Foundation in 2006.

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Credit metrics and the health of your company’s portfolio are not always easy to report on. The challenge as credit manager is to convey the message to all the parties involved, especially those who are not credit experts. Join us to learn how to effectively report metrics and baselines using colors, percentages and graphs.

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Yazmin Yepez, CICP, CCRA, CBF, Mitsubishi Electric Automation

Yazmin Yepez is the Credit Supervisor at Mitsubishi Electric Automation, with over 20 years of credit and collection experience. She specializes in credit management, in Latin America, particularly in Mexico. She previously worked for Panasonic North America as a Credit Analyst.

Yazmin holds 4 NACM credit certifications (CICP, CCRA, CBF), and is currently working on her MBA in International Business at DePaul University in Chicago.

Yazmin recently implemented a collection software, which improved delinquency 37% vs prior year. She is currently taking part in the implementation of a new ERP - Hana. Her passion is learning and sharing her knowledge and experience with others. Her expertise in the Latin American culture has helped her to understand what's needed to successfully do business and manage credit risk in that region.

In addition, Yazmin serves as a board member at NACM Midwest Group. She served as the president of the Toastmasters group at Mitsubishi Electric Automation and previously led Mitsubishi's Philanthropy Committee, which catered to the disabled youth.

Yazmin was born and raised in Mexico City; she is a single mother of three teenagers and spends her free time with her children, bike riding and practicing kickboxing.

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