What to Do if Your Suppliers Are in Distress - Is It Time to Find a New Supplier?
Don’t Wait! What Businesses Should do at the First Sign of Financial Trouble
M&A Strategies for the Acquisition of Insolvent/Financially Distressed Targets
Path Forward: Borrowing Base Redeterminations In A Restructuring World
COVID-19 Comeback Plan: Part III - How Banks Think About Loan Defaults: Lessons for Borrowers in Troubled Times
Williams Mullen's Comeback Plan: Part II - How Banks Think About Loan Defaults: Lessons for Borrowers in Troubled Times
Nota Bene Episode 94: Mapping COVID-19’s Impact on American Bankruptcy and Restructuring with Edward Tillinghast
Lessons for Health, Beauty & Wellness Companies [Part 3]: When to Consider Acquiring a Distressed Company
Lessons for Health, Beauty & Wellness Companies [Part 2]: What Options Exist for a Vendor During Bankruptcy
Blakes Continuity Podcast: Distressed M&A Forecast: A Mix of Sun and Clouds
Lessons for Health, Beauty & Wellness Companies: What to do When Your Buyer is in Financial Distress
The Impact of Revenue and Budget Shortfalls in Light of Coronavirus - Diagnosing Health Care Podcast
Strategies for Restaurant Owners to Survive in the New Normal
This past year, in the wake of significant economic challenges facing the health care industry, an unprecedented number of receiverships were imposed upon skilled nursing facilities in Massachusetts. Historically,...more
Overview: The Fifth Circuit’s highly anticipated decision on December 31, 2024, in the Serta Simmons case has significant implications for borrowers and lenders in financial distress situations. The issue on appeal concerned...more
When a public company faces significant financial challenges and uncertainty, the pressure on management teams and boards of directors to make the “right” decisions intensifies. If those financial challenges are not...more
Welcome to the 3rd Quarter 2024 Report for the Polsinelli | TrBK Distress Indices. The indices use filtered Chapter 11 filings as a proxy for distress in the overall U.S. economy and certain subsectors....more
An assignment for the benefit of creditors (ABC) is a process by which a financially distressed company (referred to as the assignor) transfers its assets to a third-party fiduciary (referred to as the assignee). The assignee...more
A seller of goods may gain priority over other creditors, and enhanced prospects for payment, by taking and perfecting a purchase money security interest (PMSI) in the goods sold to a customer. This article will explain what...more
On February 19, 2020, Congress enacted the Small Business Reorganization Act (“SBRA”) to, among other things, streamline the chapter 11 bankruptcy process for a small business by creating subchapter V of the Bankruptcy Code....more
For some folks the three letters ABC are a reminder of elementary school and singing a song to learn the alphabet. For others, it is a throw back to the early 70’s when the Jackson Five and its lead singer Michael, still...more
Imagine your business steadily climbing the ladder of success when a misstep in the market suddenly leads to a financial stumble. Assets underperform, capital markets dry up, and cash flows dwindle, causing financial...more
Although the possession and sale of cannabis remain federally illegal under the Controlled Substances Act, the U.S. Department of Justice has largely exercised a general policy of nonprosecution for state-regulated cannabis...more
The England and Wales Court of Appeal recently handed down its first judgment relating to a restructuring plan under Part 26A of the UK Companies Act 2006: Re AGPS Bondco Plc [2024] EWCA Civ 24. Restructuring plans were a...more
Introduction: In any dynamic economy, financial challenges can arise, leading individuals and businesses to face insolvency. To address these situations and provide a structured outline for resolving them, the UAE enacted...more
Overview - The Court of Appeal has overturned the decision of the High Court in Carton-Kelly v Darty Holdings SAS, providing welcome clarity for directors of distressed companies when considering whether to make payments...more
Companies forced to wind down operations and liquidate their assets often choose a liquidation process known as an ABC (Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors). An ABC is usually more streamlined, requires fewer public...more
In this multi-part series, we highlight strategic steps that nonprofits can take to build organizational resilience in three different phases of its life cycle—in times of health, when beginning to experience financial or...more
Part 1 of this series discussed the lack of bankruptcy protections for cannabis companies since bankruptcy in the U.S. is an exclusively federal procedure and cannabis remains illegal under federal law and proposed a number...more
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
Section 503(b)(9) of the Bankruptcy Code gives a massive boost to creditors that sold goods to a financially distressed customer shortly before the customer’s bankruptcy filing. While claims for goods sold before a bankruptcy...more
It is no secret that cannabis businesses and owners remain largely barred from taking advantage of federal bankruptcy protections, leaving distressed marijuana businesses with limited restructuring options. Most often,...more
Continuing on with our series on Bankruptcy Schedules, today we’ll look at Schedule D, which is used to list all of the secured debts that you owe as of the date that you filed for bankruptcy. Secured debts are those that...more
This is the first article in our mini-series on European real estate enforcements and restructurings. Given the continued financial stress being experienced across the global economy, we expect that lenders in the real estate...more
Starting a cannabis business is often discussed, but maintaining a business, particularly during a downturn in the industry, is a completely different ballgame. Pockets of the cannabis industry are experiencing financial...more
Inflationary pressures and increasing interest rates are expected to continue to have a negative impact on the global economy during 2023. In this article we consider restructuring options under BVI law available to companies...more
In a decision that may provide much-needed boundaries around the permissibility of debtors created from “out-of-the-box” prepetition corporate transactions, on January 30, 2023, the United States Court of Appeals for the...more
Loan defaults and financial distress among long term care (LTC) facilities, such as skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), assisted living facilities (ALFs) and memory care facilities, are on the rise. The COVID-19 pandemic has...more