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Third Circuit Finds Make-Whole Is Unmatured Interest That Must Be Paid by Solvent Debtor

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The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on September 10, 2024 issued its anticipated opinion in In re The Hertz Corp., with a majority holding that make-whole premiums constitute unmatured interest disallowed by the US...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Fifth Circuit: Make-Whole Premiums Should Be Disallowed in Bankruptcy

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a ruling on Oct. 14, 2022 regarding the treatment of make-whole premiums in bankruptcy. The court held that claims for payment of a make-whole premium are the...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

What to Do When Commercial Leases End Up in Bankruptcy

The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing many businesses to close, leaving landlords in the lurch. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to shake up the nation’s economy. Long-standing companies such as JC Penney, J. Crew, Neiman...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Losing Momentum: Houston Bankruptcy Court Holds that Make-Whole Claims are Not the Economic Equivalent of Unmatured Interest...

In December of last year, we wrote about the Fifth Circuit’s two decisions – Ultra I, from January 2019, and Ultra II, from December, which replaced Ultra I – regarding make-whole claims in the Ultra Petroleum bankruptcy...more

Dechert LLP

Claims Based on Avoidable Transfer Cannot be “Washed Clean” in the Secondary Market

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Disagreeing with the much-critiqued SDNY opinion in Enron, the SDNY bankruptcy court disallowed claims brought by secondary transferees because the original claimants allegedly received millions of dollars in fraudulent...more

Jones Day

Fourth Circuit Bolsters Claims for Postpetition Attorney's Fees Incurred by Unsecured or Undersecured Creditors

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In SummitBridge Nat’l Invs. III, LLC v. Faison, 915 F.3d 288 (4th Cir. 2019), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that an unsecured or undersecured creditor may include postpetition attorney’s fees and...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Best in Law: Which Interest Rate Applies in Bankruptcy? With Low Federal Rates, It Matters, BB&K Attorney Thomas Eastmond Writes...

While the question of what interest rate applies to a claim in bankruptcy might seem, at first glance, to be straightforward — it is not. Depending on the circumstances, a creditor might be entitled to no interest at all,...more

Cole Schotz

One Bite at the Apple: Section 502(e)(1)(B) and the Disallowance of Redundant, Contingent Claims

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Section 502(e)(1)(B) of the Bankruptcy Code allows debtors to seek disallowance of certain types of contingent claims to avoid being twice liable on a single obligation. It has the added benefits of facilitating debtors’...more

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