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Bill on Bankruptcy: Lawyers Easily Make Simple Words Complicated [Video]

by Bloomberg Law on 4/24/2013

April 24 (Bloomberg) -- With $64 million at stake for creditors of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., lawyers can find complexity even in simple words like "immediately proceeding," as Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia and Bloomberg...more

Strategies for Avoiding the Headache of Preference Liability

by James Holman | Duane Morris LLP on 4/17/2013

Although business bankruptcy filings have trended down in recent months, the lingering legacy of litigation prompted by the surge in filings at the outset of the U.S. financial crisis remains with us and continues to strike...more

To Release Or Not to Release – If That Is the Question, What Is the Answer?

by Ella Shenhav, Kevin J. Walsh | Mintz Levin - Bankruptcy, Restructuring &... on 4/8/2013

In a recent decision by the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, the court adopted a flexible approach to consensual third party releases in a plan of reorganization. In In re Indianapolis Downs, LLC, 2013 Bankr....more

Bankruptcy Court Rejects Forum-Shopping Ploy

by Irve J. Goldman | Pullman & Comley, LLC on 3/22/2013

Originally published in the Connecticut Law Tribune on March 11, 2013. It has become a reality of bankruptcy practice that most large or complex Chapter 11 cases are filed and administered in one of two so-called...more

Bankrupt Municipality May Reduce Retiree Benefits

by Aaron Kleven | Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 3/15/2013

The bankruptcy of the largest U.S. city to file a chapter 9 bankruptcy petition has yielded a decision with serious implications for municipal creditors. Specifically, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern...more

Tribal Corporate Bankruptcy Petition Raises Issues of First Impression for Bankruptcy Court

by Carren Shulman, Christine Swanick, Wilda Wahpepah | Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 3/15/2013

On March 4, 2013, ‘SA’ NYU WA, Inc., a tribally-chartered corporation wholly owned by the Hualapai Indian Tribe, filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition in the United States Bankruptcy Court, District of Arizona. This is a...more

Village At Camp Bowie: The Fifth Circuit Weighs In On Artificial Impairment

by Deborah Kovsky-Apap, Lesley Welwarth | Pepper Hamilton LLP on 3/14/2013

A key tenet of reorganization under Chapter 11 is that if the debtor’s plan impairs creditors, at least some of those creditors must agree to the plan. More specifically, “if a class of claims is impaired under the plan, at...more

In Confirming Indianapolis Downs Chapter 11 Plan, Delaware Bankruptcy Court Provides Guidance On Permissibility Of Binding Plan...

by John Henry Schanne, II | Pepper Hamilton LLP on 3/1/2013

On January 31, 2013, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the court) upheld a post-petition “lock-up” agreement in approving confirmation of the proposed plan in In re Indianapolis Downs, LLC, 2013...more

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Bill on Bankruptcy: Lawyers Easily Make Simple Words Complicated [Video]

Strategies for Avoiding the Headache of Preference Liability

To Release Or Not to Release – If That Is the Question, What Is the Answer?

Bankruptcy Court Rejects Forum-Shopping Ploy

Bankrupt Municipality May Reduce Retiree Benefits

Tribal Corporate Bankruptcy Petition Raises Issues of First Impression for Bankruptcy Court

Village At Camp Bowie: The Fifth Circuit Weighs In On Artificial Impairment

In Confirming Indianapolis Downs Chapter 11 Plan, Delaware Bankruptcy Court Provides Guidance On Permissibility Of Binding Plan...

Rogers Towers: Insiders as Equity Investors: Competition Protects Lenders from Absolute Priority Rule Circumvention

Bill on Bankruptcy: MF Global Creditors Undeterred by Low Value [Video]

Bill on Bankruptcy: Will 2013 Be Kind To The Bankruptcy Bar? [Video]

Bill on Bankruptcy: Big Surprises For AMR, MF Global Creditors [Video]

Bill on Bankruptcy: Lawyers Easily Make Simple Words Complicated [Video]

Bill on Bankruptcy: MF Global Creditors Undeterred by Low Value [Video]

Bill on Bankruptcy: Will 2013 Be Kind To The Bankruptcy Bar? [Video]

Bill on Bankruptcy: Big Surprises For AMR, MF Global Creditors [Video]

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