Expert Webcast will present an interactive roundtable discussion municipal restructuring on May 2, 2019, 1-2 p.m. Pacific Time, with Andy J. Dillon, executive director at Conway MacKenzie, and Karol K. Denniston, partner at Squire Patton Boggs, and moderated by Alex Kasdan, senior managing director, DelMorgan & Co.

Dillon acted as treasurer for the state of Michigan, managing 1,450 employees, where he was responsible for collecting more than $50 billion in annual revenues, tax administration, collections, bond finance, school loan programs, local government oversight, and served as the sole fiduciary of $60 billion in pension, 401K, state trust and cash assets. While treasurer, Dillon also led two state reviews of the City of Detroit’s finances, negotiated a consent agreement between the city and state and transitioned the city into receivership. Dillon also provided hands on oversight of dozens of troubled cities, counties and school districts, Expert Webcast said in a release.

Denniston, a bankruptcy and restructuring lawyer for more than 30 years, has experience representing debtors, creditors, bondholders and other parties in a wide variety of litigated bankruptcy cases and out of court transactions. Denniston has been working in the distressed municipal sector since 2009 and routinely represents cities, special districts, indenture trustees, bondholders, taxpayers and monoline insurers in a variety of municipal restructuring engagements throughout the US. She has represented clients in municipal insolvency proceedings with a focus on negotiating resolutions, including in Puerto Rico PROMESA restructurings for the Government Development Bank and COFINA.

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Just days after the city of Dallas filed an R-rated defense of the City Council’s vote to ban Exxxotica from the city-owned convention center, the porn expo has fired back that Dallas officials knew exactly what they were getting when they took the porn expo’s $28,080 last year, writes Robert Wilonsky for The Dallas Morning News.

The porn expo’s response is in response to a March 25 Dallas filing, which claimed Exxxotica’s organizers misrepresented the amount of nudity and sexually oriented activity that would take place during Exxxotica’s first event at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center last August. “As far as Dallas’ attorneys are concerned, broken promises to keep women (mostly) clothed trump Exxxotica’s allegations that the City Council trampled its First Amendment rights when it voted to ban the event two months ago,” reports Wilonsky.

U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwater will hear Exxxotica’s motion for a preliminary injunction on April 18.

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