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"Monsters Inc." y la reorganización empresarial
El regreso de los mecanismos de emergencia para empresas en insolvencia
Coan vs Killilea, the Dunne Cross-Border Insolvency Case Explained
Findings from Gibbins’ Annual Healthcare Bankruptcy Report
La caída de las normas especiales de insolvencia
Hipótesis de Negocio en Marcha
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What to Do if Your Suppliers Are in Distress - Options Beyond Contract Termination or Default
Commercial Recovery
The Obligations and Responsibilities of Creditors’ Committees in Crypto Bankruptcies
Cannabis and Bankruptcy Laws
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Part 2: Additional Implications for Cryptocurrency Companies in Bankruptcy
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Legally Qualified: A Look at Recent Trends that May Affect Bankruptcies and Restructuring in the Year Ahead
The Critical Nature of Bankruptcy Dates and Deadlines
2022 Bankruptcy & Restructuring Outlook
Consensual Third-Party Releases
I. INTRODUCTION: For decades, experts have recognized the need to reform Canada’s fraudulent conveyance and fraudulent preference laws (collectively, “reviewable transactions”), which have been described as “complex,...more
Vietnam has overhauled its decade-old bankruptcy legislation and enacted Law on Rehabilitation and Bankruptcy No. 142/2025/QH15 (RBL 2025), which will take effect on March 1, 2026 and replace the existing Law on Bankruptcy...more
The ongoing financial distress of luxury brand retailers has raised urgent questions for sellers of luxury brands. For independent brands and institutional luxury houses alike, each distressed situation creates unique...more
On the heels of our last client alert on bankruptcy safe-harbor case law developments, yet another court has reemphasized the breadth of the Bankruptcy Code’s safe harbors for transactions conducted under qualified financial...more
A recent decision by Bankruptcy Judge Brendan Shannon was peppered with some harsh words for a defendant in an adversary proceeding. Judge Shannon said the party’s “failure to perform basic discovery responses and...more
There are two (2) main procedural avenues for the resolution of disputes in a bankruptcy case: contested matters and adversary proceedings. Contested matters are typically resolved through motions practice in the main...more
Welcome back to Distressed Debt Legal Insights, Ropes & Gray’s new source of timely insights for professionals navigating the complex world of liability management. In this issue, we spotlight the unfolding litigation between...more
New York Bankruptcy Court Rejects Challenge to Barnet Rule Permitting Foreign Debtors to Obtain Chapter 15 Recognition With Only Minimal U.S. Assets - Court disagree over whether, to be eligible for relief under chapter 15...more
Causes of action for avoidance and recovery of preferential, fraudulent, or unauthorized transfers often are a means of generating value for the benefit of the estate and creditors in a bankruptcy case. For this reason, many...more
You take note when an opinion by an experienced bankruptcy judge says a party’s “failure to perform basic discovery responses and participation in litigation . . . has been breathtaking. I have seen a lot, but I have not seen...more
Most restaurant bankruptcies are won or lost before the case is ever filed. The 90 days leading up to a filing are critical for New York restaurant owners: the moves you make (or don’t make) can affect everything from your...more
Port Elizabeth Terminal & Warehouse Corp., a major marine terminal and warehousing operator serving the Port of New York and New Jersey, filed for Chapter 11 on November 14, 2025, in the Bankruptcy Court for the District of...more
Two courts – the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in In re Fairfield Sentry Ltd. (Aug. 5, 2025)1 and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware in Opioid Master Disbursement Trust II v. Covidien...more
Over one thousand creditors were “preferred” as Rite Aid ran up to its first bankruptcy filing in 2023. That is what the trustee appointed to liquidate Rite Aid’s assets is alleging in a tidal wave of lawsuits recently...more
Subprime lender PrimaLend Capital Partners files for bankruptcy protection | Reuters - Reports from Bloomberg News had revealed that the company’s creditors were going unpaid for months....more
When a Ponzi scheme collapses, how does a bankruptcy trustee with limited resources and hundreds of innocent investors — some winners, some losers — address all the competing issues in an equitable and cost-effective way? The...more
For those operating in the MCA space, New York federal and state courts hold a preeminent role in guiding FinTech companies to structure non-loan products in ways that are alternative, at times clever, yet legally compliant....more
The Bankruptcy Code provides a bankruptcy trustee or chapter 11 debtor-in-possession ("DIP") with the power to avoid and recover certain fraudulent transfers that a creditor could have avoided outside of bankruptcy under...more
U.S. Bankruptcy and appellate courts have long wrangled over whether the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code apply extraterritorially to permit, for example, enforcement of the automatic stay to creditor collection efforts...more
The best — and sometimes only — option for a financially troubled company to avoid a piecemeal liquidation may be to seek an acquirer for itself or its assets. While a distressed company may prefer an out-of-court sale...more
In United States corporate bankruptcies, much of the action happens outside the spotlight of the main reorganization plan in a parallel but crucial track: the adversary proceeding. These separate litigation proceedings can...more
Regeneron declines to make higher bid for 23andMe after Wojcicki's $305 million offer | Reuters - 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki’s bid, submitted through a nonprofit she controls, remains unchallenged, setting her up to...more
The United States Supreme Court has held that the sovereign immunity waiver in Section 106(a) of the Bankruptcy Code does not extend to state law claims “nested” within a Section 544(b) claim for relief, depriving bankruptcy...more
Bankruptcy trustees and chapter 11 debtors-in-possession (“DIPs”) frequently seek to avoid fraudulent transfers and obligations under section 544(b) of the Bankruptcy Code and state fraudulent transfer or other applicable...more
The power of a bankruptcy trustee or chapter 11 debtor-in-possession ("DIP") to avoid pre-bankruptcy preferential transfers is an important tool designed to promote the bankruptcy policy of equality of distribution and to...more