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A Primer for Creditors Navigating the Bankruptcy System

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Bankruptcy filings affect businesses across America. The Bankruptcy Code is complex and difficult to navigate.  But used properly, it can helpcreditors to minimize losses when a customer files bankruptcy. ...more

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Relying on Insolvency Exclusion, Second Circuit Finds That D&O Insurer Not Required to Defend Professional Manager Overseeing...

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, applying New York law, affirmed a trial court’s denial of a preliminary injunction seeking to require a D&O insurer to defend a professional manager hired to oversee...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Citing Knowledge of Irregularities in Purported Ponzi Scheme, Bankruptcy Court Deems Pre-Bankruptcy Transfers Fraudulent

Publicly, Diamond Finance Co. (“Diamond”) provided car loans to individuals with less-than-stellar credit. While Diamond did have “some actual business,” its purpose “quickly became a front to lure unsuspecting investors.”...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Restructuring Roundup - February 2024

AGG’s Restructuring Roundup newsletter is a monthly update of legal issues and news affecting or related to commercial litigation and bankruptcy. The newsletter is a curation of published articles and news, and contains...more

Holland & Hart LLP

How Purdue High Court Case Will Shape Ch.11 Mass Injury

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The U.S. Supreme Court closed its last session of the year on Dec. 4 by hearing oral argument in Harrington v. Purdue Pharma LP. The issue to be resolved by the court is the scope of the authority of the bankruptcy court...more

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Avoiding Collateral Damage: Lessons of Lehman [Part II]

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In light of the banking failures of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic (as well as Credit Suisse), this summer, the Federal Reserve and the FDIC proposed guidance and rules for larger banks to (i) develop...more

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Recent Developments in Bankruptcy Law, July 2023

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1. AUTOMATIC STAY - 1.1 Covered Activities - 1.1.a Bankruptcy court properly enjoins actions against nondebtor entity after divisional merger. The debtor was the product of a divisional merger under Texas law, which...more

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April 2023 - Recent Developments in Bankruptcy Law

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AUTOMATIC STAY - 1.1 Covered Activities 1.1.a Court denies injunction against actions involving debtors’ affiliates. Shortly after filing their chapter 11 cases, the debtors in possession sought, in the alternative,...more

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Podcast: Cannabis and Bankruptcy, Ep. 1: Considerations for Individuals [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 53]

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Starting a cannabis business is often discussed, but maintaining a business, particularly during a downturn in the industry, is a completely different ballgame. Pockets of the cannabis industry are experiencing financial...more

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Second Circuit Weighs In on Bankruptcy Code v. Chapter 11 Plan Impairment and the Solvent-Debtor Exception

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A handful of recent high-profile court rulings have considered whether a chapter 11 debtor is obligated to pay postpetition, pre-effective date interest ("pendency interest") to unsecured creditors to render their claims...more

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Suing Directors of a Troubled Business: When Form Trumps Substance

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Creditors of distressed businesses are often frustrated by shareholder-controlled boards when directors pursue strategies that appear to be designed to benefit shareholders at the creditors’ expense. In these circumstances,...more

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Business Restructuring Review | November–December 2021

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New York Bankruptcy Court Rules That Good Faith Is Not The Gatekeeper To Chapter 15 - Despite the absence of any explicit directive in the Bankruptcy Code, it is well understood that a debtor must file a chapter 11...more

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Hotel Bankruptcies: 8 Key Issues for Hospitality Advisors

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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many hospitality professionals and their clients to confront bankruptcy, insolvency, and loan workout issues for the first time since the Great Recession. Chapter 11 presents a host of unique...more

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Are Critical Vendors Insulated from Preference Actions?

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No, says the Delaware Bankruptcy Court in In re Maxus Energy Corp. In Maxus, the defendant, Vista Analytical Laboratory, Inc. (“Vista” or the “Defendant”), a designated critical vendor, sought summary judgement dismissing the...more

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Chris Lazarini Analyzes Definition of “Transfer” under Bankruptcy Code

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Bass, Berry & Sims attorney Chris Lazarini analyzed a case questioning the definition of a “transfer” under §544 and 550 of the Bankruptcy Code and whether the transfer was voidable when made by an unsecured creditor. The...more

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Disgorgement Upon Insolvency: Continuing Uncertainty

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Litigation and Trial attorneys Nate Hull and Stephen Segal authored an article entitled "Disgorgement Upon Insolvency: Continuing Uncertainty." Nate and Stephen discuss the various approaches taken by bankruptcy courts when...more

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Third Circuit Rules That WARN Act's "Unforeseeable Business Circumstances" Exception Requires That Layoffs Be Probable, Not...

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In Varela v. AE Liquidation, Inc. (In re AE Liquidation, Inc.), 866 F.3d 515 (3d Cir. 2017), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit became the sixth circuit court of appeals to rule that a "probability standard"...more

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Restructuring and Insolvency Bulletin Issue 2 - 2017: Offshore and off limits: SDNY Bankruptcy Court finds foreign transfer...

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Can foreign transfers of a U.S. debtor be avoided under the Bankruptcy Code’s avoidance provisions? While the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York recently found that the answer is no, that court, as well as...more

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Countering counterparty insolvency

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These days, the threat of counterparty insolvency looms over the energy sector: whether it is a natural disaster or precipitous decline in the price of oil, perhaps no industry is more susceptible to the financial decline and...more

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Bachmanity – From Sizzle to Fizzle and Maybe Bachruptcy (Silicon Valley – Episode 24)

At its heart, Episode 24 was about relationships – from the wayward dating lives of Richard and Dinesh to Big Head and Ehrlich’s marriage of “Bachmanity”, the Pied Piper entourage found themselves faced with the messy...more

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