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Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Un dossier mené à bon port : Cinq points à retenir de la restructuration transfrontalière de Red Lobster

En mai 2024, Red Lobster Management LLC (« RL Management ») et quatorze membres de son groupe, y compris Red Lobster Canada Inc. (« Red Lobster Canada ») (collectivement, « Red Lobster »), ont entamé des procédures devant la...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Should I Remain Employed by the Debtor? What to Know About KEIPs and KERPs - Creditor’s Rights Toolkit

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For a debtor in financial distress, having the right team in place to steward the company through a restructuring can mean the difference between success and failure. To incentivize top talent to stay with the debtor and...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Landing in a Safe Harbour: Five Takeaways From the Red Lobster Cross-Border Restructuring

In May 2024, Red Lobster Management LLC (RL Management) and fourteen of its affiliates (collectively, Red Lobster), including Red Lobster Canada Inc. (Red Lobster Canada), commenced proceedings in the United States Bankruptcy...more

Foley Hoag LLP

23andMe Bankruptcy Update: U.S. Trustee and Texas Seek Consumer Privacy Ombudsman, While Debtors Aim for Less Oversight with...

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As noted in our last two client alerts, the issue as to who should be the watchdog to protect consumer personal data is coming to a head in the chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of 23andMe Holding Co and its affiliated debtors...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Make-Whole Premiums in Bankruptcy: Clarity in Drafting, Certainty in Recovery

In the world of commercial lending, certain contract provisions often go unnoticed—until the moment they matter most. Make-whole premiums are one such example. Typically tucked deep in loan agreements, these provisions are...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

What Is a Structured Dismissal of a Bankruptcy Case and How Does It Affect Creditors? - Creditor’s Rights Toolkit

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More often than not, Chapter 11 debtors seek to exit bankruptcy by confirming a Chapter 11 plan of reorganization or liquidation. However, not only is this approach expensive, but it requires that the debtors have sufficient...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Supreme Court: No Strong-Arming the Federal Government With State-Law Fraudulent Transfer Claims

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Recently, in the case United States v. Miller, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the sovereign immunity waiver provision in the Bankruptcy Code is jurisdictional only and does not waive the federal government’s sovereign...more

Kerr Russell

April Fools’ Day Brings Relief to Small Businesses and Individuals Filing Bankruptcy

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The U.S. Bankruptcy Code will be implementing inflation adjustments in its eligibility and exemption limits by 13.2% across various provisions. The official adjustments have been published in the Federal Register, marking the...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Restructuring Roundup - March 2025

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

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Fifth Circuit Holds that Gatekeeping and Injunction Provisions in Bankruptcy Plans Cannot Shield Non-Debtors From Liability

On March 18, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held in In re Highland Capital Mgmt., L.P., that a plan’s gatekeeping and injunction provisions could not extend to claims against most non-debtors...more

Seward & Kissel LLP

Bad Idea Genes, Pension Plan (?), and Vertical Integration

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23andMe files for bankruptcy, Anne Wojcicki steps down as CEO | CNBC - Genetic testing company 23andMe filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Missouri federal court. Anne Wojcicki, co-founder and CEO, has resigned...more

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What Is a Chapter 15 Bankruptcy and How is It Different from a Chapter 11 Case? - Creditor’s Rights Toolkit

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Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code is a mechanism for debtors to have foreign insolvency proceedings recognized in the U.S. and to have the orders entered by a foreign court in those insolvency proceedings abroad given effect...more

Jones Day

New Jersey Bankruptcy Court: Motion Not Necessary to Assume Unexpired Lease

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The ability to assume, assume and assign, or reject executory contracts and unexpired leases is a power central to ability of a bankruptcy trustee or chapter 11 debtor-in-possession ("DIP") to maximize the value of the estate...more

DLA Piper

SDNY Bankruptcy Court Holds that “Opt-Out” Mechanism Renders Third-Party Releases Consensual in Spirit Airlines Chapter 11 Plan

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The US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (the Court) recently approved third-party releases contained in a chapter 11 plan (the Plan) and found that, under the facts and circumstances, the opt-out...more

Jones Day

Ninth Circuit: No Injury to Creditors Required for Avoidance of Intentionally Fraudulent Transfer

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To assist a bankruptcy trustee or chapter 11 debtor-in-possession ("DIP") in maximizing the value of the bankruptcy estate for the benefit of all stakeholders, the Bankruptcy Code authorizes a trustee or DIP to avoid certain...more

Akerman LLP

Purdue Pharma Foretells a Troubled Future for Bar Orders

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In Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P., the Supreme Court held that the Bankruptcy Code does not authorize a bankruptcy court to grant a release and injunction that extinguishes direct claims against nondebtor third parties...more

Seward & Kissel LLP

I Love it When a Plan Comes Together, Shutting Down Forever, and A Matrix Resurrection?

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Purdue Pharma files new bankruptcy plan for $7.4 billion opioid settlement | CNN - Purdue Pharma filed another chapter 11 reorganization plan aiming to implement $7.4 billion in opioid settlements....more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Private Credit Restructuring: Priming DIPs in Focus

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In most chapter 11 cases, existing first lien lenders provide post-petition financing to preserve collateral value and maximize recovery. In some situations, a stressed borrower may threaten to pursue a hostile chapter 11...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

Entitled to Stay Relief? Prove it.

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For example, you make a commercial real estate loan and record your deed of trust. The borrower pays you for a time but then defaults.  You tried loan forbearance and modification, but it was unsuccessful. The borrower falls...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Confirms Nonconsensual Third-Party Releases May Be Recognized Under Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code

A recent Bankruptcy Court decision granted recognition to a Mexican concurso mercantile and gave full force and effect to a Mexican concurso plan that contained nonconsensual third-party releases....more

Seward & Kissel LLP

Opting Out, Out of Options, and Sunnova Flaming Out

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Spirit Airlines recently emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy and announced it plans to rebrand itself as a premium airline. S&K Take: The Spirit case was obviously a significant undertaking, and the plan was confirmed by Judge...more

Akerman LLP

Your Collateral Can Disappear in Chapter 11

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Suppose you have made a loan and your collateral includes a lien on receivables or inventory. If your borrower files Chapter 11, you are in danger of your collateral disappearing during the Chapter 11 case. Here's how....more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Involuntary Bankruptcy: Often Discussed, Infrequently Used

I am commonly asked by clients and other lawyers who are frustrated by typical collection efforts if we can place the would-be debtor into an involuntary bankruptcy.  The short answer is, yes, it is often possible to place a...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

In re Urban Commons 2 West LLC (Bankr. SDNY Mar. 4, 2025)

Bankruptcy Court Elects to Follow Majority Interpretation of 11 U.S.C. § 363(f)(5) On March 4, 2025, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (the Bankruptcy Court) issued a significant...more

Holland & Knight LLP

American Tire: Rubber Hits the Road in Non-Ratable Chapter 11 Liability Management Transaction

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Minority senior secured lenders in syndicated deals rely on, among other provisions, the "sacred right" protections contained in the credit documents to protect the benefit of their bargained-for agreement: primarily, that...more

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