Bankruptcy – May 23, 2012

by Bloomberg Law on 4/25/2012

April 25 (Bloomberg Law) -- Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia talks with Bloomberg News bankruptcy columnist and editor-at-large Bill Rochelle at the American Bankruptcy Institute's Annual Spring Meeting in Washington DC about a...more

by Ropes & Gray LLP on 11/9/2011

In a case of first impression, a U.S. bankruptcy court charged with enforcing the rights of a foreign insolvency administrator against assets in the United States has held that foreign insolvency law may not be invoked to...more

by Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 9/16/2011

The scenario has become all too familiar in recent years: a borrower defaults on a loan and, when the lender pursues the loan collateral through foreclosure or other proceedings, the borrower files for bankruptcy protection....more

by Poyner Spruill LLP on 8/8/2011

One consequence of the depressed real estate market has been numerous Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases wherein the debtor seeks confirmation of a “dirt-for-debt” plan. In such a plan, instead of paying the secured creditor the...more

by Mintz Levin on 7/5/2011

In a decision that may have significant practical implications to the practice of bankruptcy law, the U.S. Supreme Court recently declared, on constitutional grounds, that a bankruptcy court cannot exercise jurisdiction over...more

by Selinda A Melnik on 2/1/2011

US Bankruptcy Code Chapter 15, which incorporates the United Nations Model Cross-Border Insolvency Law, became effective October 2005. Designed to assist non-US proceedings in need of enforcement within the United States,...more

by Marc S. Stern on 9/1/2009

This brief amici curiae supporting Petitioners Milavetz, Gallop & Milavetz, P.A., et al., is filed by two bar associations (the Connecticut Bar Association (“CBA”) and the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy...more

by Kocks & Partners Rechtsanwälte Belgien on 3/31/2009

Mit dem neuen Gesetz vom 31. Januar 2009 über die Kontinuität von Unternehmen soll Unternehmen, die sich in Zahlungsschwierigkeiten befinden, die Möglichkeit gegeben werden, ihre Zahlungsprobleme zu überwinden. Bisher...more