Cannabis Law Now Podcast - The 4-1-1 on Cannabis Receiverships from a Top Cannabis Receiver
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Findings from Gibbins’ Annual Healthcare Bankruptcy Report
Spotlight on Financial Services- Consumer bankruptcy
Commercial Recovery
SDNY Chooses “Time Approach” to Calculating Lease Termination Damages Collectible Against a Bankrupt Estate
Cannabis and Bankruptcy Laws
The New Value Defense
The “Catch-22” of Preference Law
Consensual Third-Party Releases
Breaking Down the Latest Decision in the Purdue Pharma Case
AGG Talks: U.S. Bankruptcy Basics for Foreign Investors
Repossessions and Bankruptcy Post-COVID, Post-Fulton [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 26]
The Evolution of Cross-Border Restructuring Processes
Blakes Continuity Podcast: What to Expect When Insolvency Crosses the Border
ADR's Big Moment
Bankruptcy Basics and Recent Developments
Podcast - Credit Funds: Make-Wholes and Cramdowns: Understanding the Recent Second Circuit Momentive Decision
A December 13, 2024, opinion from Judge Walrath held that a 2023 decision from the U.S. Supreme Court in Coinbase, Inc. v. Bielski, 599 U.S. 736 (2023) requires staying prosecution of an adversary proceeding when the...more
Established in 2015 as a trusted neutral forum to meet increasing demand for effective transnational dispute resolution, the Singapore International Commercial Court (the “SICC”) is a division of the General Division of the...more
The Bankruptcy Code invalidates "ipso facto" clauses in executory contracts or unexpired leases that purport to modify or terminate the contract or lease (or the debtor's rights or obligations under the contract or lease)...more
Whether a dispute that is subject to arbitration can or must be referred to arbitration after one of the parties to a prepetition arbitration agreement files for bankruptcy has long been a source of disagreement among...more
In rejecting an incidental beneficiary’s cure claim, the Second Circuit reasoned that affording a non-party administrative priority “would let it cut the line and stand in front of even secured creditors in exchange for...more
In Highland Capital Mgmt. v. Dondero (In re Highland Capital Mgmt.), Case No. 21-03007-sgj (Bankr. N.D. Tex. 2021), the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas held that a debtor could not be compelled to...more
The economic hardships brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted companies globally, leading many to consider both in-court and out-of-court restructurings. Because this trend will likely continue as the long-term...more
Today we share our conversation with Judge Charles Clevert, a retired federal district court and bankruptcy court judge. Appointed at just 30 years of age, Judge Clevert was Wisconsin’s first African American federal judge. ...more
With the specter of COVID-19 and its concomitant impact on the world economy, the US is poised to see an increase in bankruptcy filings during 2020 across any number of business sectors. A debtor’s bankruptcy calls into...more
In a recent appeal directly to the Fifth Circuit from a Southern District of Texas Bankruptcy Court, the court affirmed the bankruptcy court’s denial of a motion to compel arbitration. In Henry v. Educational Financial...more
In Crystallex International Corp. v. Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., 879 F.3d 79 (3d Cir. 2018), a divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that transfers by nondebtor subsidiary corporations to their ultimate...more
In a recent decision pitting the Bankruptcy Code against the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that a creditor could not compel arbitration of a debtor's class action claims...more
Bass, Berry & Sims attorney Chris Lazarini discussed a case involving an arbitration award and bankruptcy filing. The court ruled that where a bankruptcy action has been closed, the bankruptcy trustee's exclusive authority to...more
In the latest opinion arising from a coverage dispute following MF Global Holdings’s bankruptcy, the Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York sent the dispute to arbitration in Bermuda pursuant to the underlying...more
Any property owner which has experienced the bankruptcy of a tenant is doubtless keenly aware of the limitation on damages which the Bankruptcy Code imposes on the landlord. A new decision by the Ninth Circuit bolsters the...more
Key developments in the Indian legal landscape in 2016 - From the Startup India campaign launched in January 2016 to the coming into force of substantial provisions of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code in December 2016,...more
This appeal is from an order by a district court in California, affirming a bankruptcy court’s denial of a motion to compel arbitration in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee’s adversary proceeding, in which the trustee sought...more
In Edwards v. Broadwater Casitas Care Center, 2013 DJDAR 15911 (2013), the California Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District decided an interesting case involving the interplay of a petition for attorney fees...more