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Jevic Keeps on Gifting: Third Circuit Reaffirms Solvent Debtor Exception by Holding Unsecured Creditors of Solvent Debtor Entitled...

On September 10, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held in In re The Hertz Corporation that unsecured creditors of a solvent debtor are entitled to receive the contractual rate of interest, rather than...more

Does WeWork’s Going Concern Warning Signal a Potential Bankruptcy Filing?

Three years have passed since the COVID-19 pandemic reached the United States and its effects are still being felt today.  Even though lockdown measures have largely disappeared and many workers have returned to the office,...more

United States Supreme Court Holds that Bankruptcy Code Section 363(m) Does Not Preclude Appellate Jurisdiction on Asset Sale...

In a ruling issued just yesterday, MOAC Mall Holdings LLC v. Transform Holdco LLC et al., 598 U.S. ----, 2023 WL 2992693 (2023) (“MOAC”), the United States Supreme Court (the “Supreme Court”) held that Bankruptcy Code section...more

Celsius Earn Depositors May Be Left Cold by Crypto Ownership Ruling

The “crypto winter” of 2022 brought a bear market and a recent wave of bankruptcies to the crypto industry, leaving some retail customers of crypto exchanges frozen out of their accounts.  As the bankruptcy filings mounted...more

Junior Creditors Beware: Third Circuit Awards Damages for Breach of Turnover Provision

On April 13, 2022, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled in CoFund II LLC v. Hitachi Capital America Corp. that a junior creditor breached a turnover provision in an intercreditor agreement when it applied a senior...more

Delaware Bankruptcy Court Rules that Unsecured Creditors of a Solvent Debtor Are Entitled to Post-Petition Interest at the Federal...

On December 22, 2021, Judge Mary Walrath of the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware held in In re The Hertz Corp. that redemption premiums may potentially qualify as unmatured interest, and that, to the extent that...more

What’s in a Name? Court Holds That Despite Its Title, a Security Agreement Also Subordinated Junior Creditor’s Rights to Payment

On October 29, 2021, Judge Laura Taylor Swain, the presiding judge in the Puerto Rico bankruptcy case, ruled that approximately $2 billion in intragovernmental loan claims were subordinated to bonds issued by the Puerto Rico...more

Third Circuit Affirms Rulings That Distributions to TCEH First Lien Creditors Are Governed by the Bankruptcy Code Rather Than...

On June 19, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (the “Third Circuit”) affirmed a ruling of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware (the “District Court”) dismissing challenges...more

District Court Holds That Receipt of Reorganized Stock Did Not Violate Turnover and Standstill Provisions in Intercreditor...

On November 30, 2018, Judge Nelson S. Román of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a decision affirming the dismissal of certain claims brought by senior secured creditors against...more

Delaware Bankruptcy Court Rules TCEH First Lien Distributions Are Governed by the Bankruptcy Code, Not by Intercreditor Agreement...

On March 11, 2016, Judge Christopher Sontchi of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware issued an opinion in the Energy Future Holdings bankruptcy that resolved an intercreditor dispute over $90 million in...more

TCEH Bankruptcy: SDNY Transfers Delaware Trust Company v. Wilmington Trust N.A. Intercreditor Dispute to Delaware Bankruptcy...

On July 23, 2015, in an action arising from the huge TCEH chapter 11 bankruptcy, Judge Paul A. Engelmayer of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued an opinion in Delaware Trust Company v....more

Court Holds that San Bernardino is Eligible to File for Chapter 9

On October 16, 2013, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California ruled that the City of San Bernardino is eligible for protection under chapter 9 of the Bankruptcy Code. In re City of San Bernardino,...more

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