Debt, Secured Debt

Debt or Equity? The Never-Ending Question For Closely Held Businesses

Rivkin Radler LLP on 7/20/2023

What Was Intended? Transactions between commonly controlled, closely held businesses are often conducted in an informal manner. This is unfortunate because, in the absence of documentation, it is sometimes difficult to...more

Passage of Bankruptcy Threshold Adjustment and Technical Corrections Act

Miller Canfield on 7/5/2022

Congress has made some small but important changes to the Bankruptcy Code through its enactment of the Bankruptcy Threshold Adjustment and Technical Corrections Act (the "Act") on June 21, 2022. The most important of these...more

Selling Your Business? Take the Money But Defer the Tax?

Rivkin Radler LLP on 5/17/2022

Sale of the Business- Imagine Client has just received an attractive, all cash offer for the sale of their business; there is no financing contingency. The buyer has proposed a cash-free and debt-free deal....more

Cessione in garanzia del credito da finanziamento soci e postergazione ex Articolo 2467 CC

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 6/28/2019

La sorte del rimborso dei finanziamenti erogati dai soci nelle società a responsabilità limitata è disciplinata dall'articolo 2467 del codice civile il quale prevede che il rimborso dei finanziamenti dei soci a favore della...more

Use Your Will to Dictate How to Pay Your Debts

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C. on 3/20/2019

The main purpose of a will is to direct where your assets will go after you die, but it can also be used to instruct your heirs how to pay your debts. While generally heirs cannot inherit debt, debt can reduce what they...more

CFPB issues Snapshot of older consumers and mortgage debt

Ballard Spahr LLP on 5/19/2014

The CFPB’s Office for Older Americans released a report this month reviewing mortgage debt held by older consumers—individuals age 65 and older. The report found that older consumers are carrying more mortgage debt into...more