The Small Business Reorganization Act (“SBRA”), which became effective February 19, 2020 after being signed into law in August 2019, created a new Subchapter V of Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code with a stated purpose “to...more
When the Small Business Reorganization Act (SBRA) was signed into law in August 2019 and slated to take effect in February 2020, no one could have foreseen that, by March 2020, the U.S. economy would grind to a halt as a...more
For the past several years, creditors in the Ninth Circuit were confounded by an interpretation of the bankruptcy code that permitted individual chapter 11 debtors to retain a significant portion of their assets without...more
In the recent case of Davis v. Elliot Mgmt. Corp. (In re Lehman Bros. Holdings Inc.), 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 48102 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 31, 2014), the District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a decision barring...more