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Cooperation Agreements Help Distressed Lenders Negotiate as One

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Cooperation agreements are a new tool for distressed debtholders seeking to negotiate from a position of unity and strength. These agreements can also help debtholders defend themselves against a growing opportunistic...more

Mayer Brown

How the Automatic Stay in Bankruptcy Can Affect Net Asset Value Facilities

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Executive Summary - In net asset value (NAV) facilities, the borrowing capacity typically adjusts to reflect changes to the value of the underlying investment portfolio, and borrowers face the risk of potential borrowing...more

Troutman Pepper

The Debtor (or Its Successor) Has Objected to My Claim – What Do I Need to Do? - Creditor’s Rights Toolkit

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Often, after filing a proof of claim, a creditor can go months or even years, without hearing anything regarding their claim. Then, unexpectedly, the creditor's proof of claim faces an objection, possibly on multiple grounds,...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Business Bankruptcy Alternatives

In the middle market, businesses are feeling the financial crunch. Pandemic-era governmental incentives are ending, interest rates are on the rise, and consumer demand for some products is waning. These factors have led to...more

Bowditch & Dewey

Ten Reasons to Expect an Increase in Financial Restructurings in 2025

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1. Commercial Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filings Have Increased Significantly Year-Over-Year: There has been a significant increase in the number of commercial Chapter 11 cases (larger company filings) in 2024. By way of example,...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: Critical Vendor in Texas: It’s a Rodeo

In Chapter 11 cases, one of a vendor’s best shots at getting paid its pre-petition debt is being designated as a “critical vendor”....more

King & Spalding

Bankruptcy Court Finds Lender’s Fee Application, Seeking Double the Debtor’s Fees, Reasonable

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On January 3, 2024, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Texas issued an order approving, in substantial part, a contested fee application submitted by 100 E. 7th Street Lender LLC, an oversecured lender to...more

King & Spalding

The Seventh Circuit Upholds District Court’s Decision That Safe Harbor Provision of Section 546(e) Applies to Privately Held...

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A recent ruling from the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit provides additional comfort for lenders receiving full repayment in connection with leveraged acquisitions. The U.S. Bankruptcy Code gives...more

Troutman Pepper

Idaho Bankruptcy Court Holds that Later-Recovered Assets Revert to Borrower Absent Plan Provision to the Contrary

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What happens to funds recovered by the trustee after the final plan payment is made in a chapter 13 case? According to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Iowa, absent a plan provision providing otherwise, those...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Staying Afloat in an Uncertain Economic World: Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst Private Credit Restructuring Year in...

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While global inflation and higher-for-longer interest rates dominated macroeconomic headlines over the last year, middle-market private credit restructurings witnessed three notable trends.  First, these credits remained...more

Jones Day

Cure and Reinstatement of Defaulted Loan Under Chapter 11 Plan Requires Payment of Default-Rate Interest

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Section 1124(2) of the Bankruptcy Code gives chapter 11 debtors a valuable tool for use in situations where long-term prepetition debt carries a significantly lower interest rate than the rates available at the time of...more

Tonkon Torp LLP

The Eighth Circuit’s Topp Decision Adds Flexibility to Cramdown Interest Rate Calculations

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The Eighth Circuit recently weighed in on the issue of how to determine appropriate cramdown interest rates for secured creditors in Chapter 11 bankruptcy plans under Section 1129 of the Bankruptcy Code....more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Debtor Corp’s S Election: “Property” in Bankruptcy?

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Uncertain Future- The Congressional Budget Office (“CBO”) recently released some data for the federal government’s 2023 fiscal year. According to the CBO, the federal budget deficit for the year was $1.7 trillion, or...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

The “Board Flip”: How Effective is the Pre-Petition Exercise of Proxy Rights in the Face of Bankruptcy?

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When debt restructuring discussions are at an impasse and the reservoir of goodwill between the parties has run dry, stakeholders face difficult choices. For a lender, one of the most powerful tools available is the exercise...more

Jenner & Block

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

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Fore!ward June 2023 - Make-Whole Clauses: It's All About the Enforceability Question

Make-whole clauses (also known as prepayment premiums, call premiums or call protection) are provisions in financing transactions that require the borrower to make a specified payment to the lender if a loan is prepaid before...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Fifth Circuit Holds that Section 363(m)’s “Good Faith Purchaser” Protection Applies to Secured Creditor that Used “Economic...

On April 17, 2023, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, in Matter of RE Palm Springs II, L.L.C., 2023 WL 2966520 (5th Cir. April 17, 2023), held that a senior lender who uses economic leverage and asserts its legal rights to...more

Seward & Kissel LLP

Guess Who’s Back! With Distress This Time! Consignment Lifeline, Failure to Launch, and Quite a Pickle

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J&J’s First Attempt to Escape Cancer Claims With Bankruptcy Failed. Now It’s Trying Again | Bloomberg - After Johnson & Johnson’s failed first attempt to use bankruptcy to avoid claims being brought against it, the company...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Chapter 11 Trends: Are First Day Hearings “Game Over” for Chapter 11 Cases?

Material Chapter 11 cases have morphed to the point that the outcome is often predetermined at the “first day” hearing. Unsecured creditors with material credit exposure should engage early to protect their interests and...more

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Acquisition of Distressed Loans: Bankruptcy Considerations and the 363 Sale

There are no shortage of bankruptcy considerations that must be understood by an incoming lender who acquires a distressed commercial real estate loan and whose borrower shortly thereafter files for bankruptcy protection. For...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Live and let fly: Turbulence lands SAS in Chapter 11 - Eurofenix, Autumn 2022

On 5 July 2022, SAS AB and 13 affiliates filed for Chapter 11 protection in the Southern District of New York. Owned 44% by the Kingdoms of Denmark and Sweden, SAS encountered financial turbulence resulting from increased...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Recent Second Circuit Decision Holds that Conducting a Foreclosure Sale upon a Property After a Tenant Files for Bankruptcy...

In New York, it is a standard practice to name all tenants residing in a building when foreclosing upon the property. That is because section 1311 of the New York Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law (“RPAPL”) states...more

Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP

Aggressive Pursuit Of Repayment Or Crossing The Line? Takeaways From The Bailey Tool Bankruptcy Case

A lender’s successful enforcement of loan documents following one or more events of default turns on a variety of factors, the most important of which is compliance with the terms of the relevant loan documents. When a lender...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Chapter 11 and CCAA: A Cross-Border Comparison

Chapter 11 and CCAA - A Cross-Border Comparison - A Comparison of the Key Differences Between Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act. ...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Good Problems to Have: Recovery of Interest by Unsecured Creditors of a Solvent Chapter 11 Debtor

Imagine this: you sell a product to a company on credit at 8% interest until you are paid, and the company files for bankruptcy before repayment.  Or maybe you are a hard money lender that made an unsecured loan at 18% to a...more

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