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
In a highly-anticipated decision, Judge Ronnie Abrams of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled on March 31, 2023, in Melendez v. City of New York, that New York City's Guaranty Law is...more
In what may turn out to be a lesson on the limits of the application of equitable doctrines supporting rent relief in the face of good lease drafting, a California court of appeal panel in San Diego has taken a narrow view on...more
A recent court case (Exclusive Motoring Worldwide, Inc. v. Soral Investments, Inc., 2022 WL 5237093 (Fla. 3d DCA 2022)) serves as a good reminder that a landlord may only be able to obtain funds deposited into the court’s...more
On December 17, 2021, Bill C-2, federal legislation that creates two new rent support programs, became law. As their names suggest, the Tourism and Hospitality Recovery Program (THRP) and the Hardest-Hit Business Recovery...more
On September 2, 2021, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law a new moratorium on evictions and foreclosures for residential tenants and small businesses. Recently, in the case Chrysafis v. Marks, the U.S. Supreme...more
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors continues to pursue options for COVID-19 tenant protections, in anticipation of the September 30, 2021 expiration of State protections of residential tenants from eviction for...more
The Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) Eviction Moratorium confirms President Reagan’s quip that a government program is the “nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth.” As explained in my prior post, the CDC...more
Following the passage of its commercial eviction moratorium for certain qualified tenants in December 2020, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, on August 4, 2021, provided additional assistance to the same class of...more
On August 3, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new order banning residential evictions in counties where COVID-19 cases are quickly rising. The CDC’s prior order instituting an eviction moratorium...more
Last week, I wrote on the Eviction Moratorium issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) slated to expire on July 31, 2021. By all reports, the Biden administration was willing to let the moratorium expire...more
COVID-19 Rental Housing Recovery Act - In a continued effort to address what is expected to be an overwhelming number of residential evictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and associated business closures,...more
On June 28, 2021 Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 832, which extended California’s eviction moratorium through September 30, 2021....more
The COVID-19 pandemic has fueled fears about mounting evictions, prompting the federal government, as well as many states, cities, and counties, to minimize the impact of the crisis on tenants, including by placing moratoria...more
It’s not news that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated losses in sectors that are reliant on footfall − namely, the retail and leisure industry. Prior to the pandemic, the general weakness in the “bricks and mortar” retail...more
On Wednesday, May 5, 2021, Judge Dabney Friedrich of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the residential eviction moratorium was unlawful as it was beyond the authority of the United States Centers...more
On May 3, 2021, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) Acting Director Dave Uejio and the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) Acting Chairwoman Rebecca Slaughter sent notification letters to the country's largest...more
A federal judge for the District of Columbia issued a decision on May 5 striking down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) nationwide eviction moratorium....more
A federal court in Washington, D.C. has become the latest in a growing group of courts to hold that a CDC rule prohibiting residential evictions is invalid and unenforceable in its May 5, 2021, order in Alabama Association of...more
On May 5, 2021, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that extends the moratorium on evictions and foreclosures for residential tenants and small businesses to August 31, 2021. The previous moratorium expired May 1,...more
As more Americans get vaccinated and the infection rates continue to decline, there is increasing debate on whether the crisis has passed such that businesses can begin operating normally. One of the flashpoints is evictions...more
On February 25, 2021, the United States District Court in the Eastern District of Texas (“Texas Court”) granted summary judgment in favor of the plaintiffs in Lauren Terkel et al. v. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...more
Why Is There an Eviction Moratorium? - In the early days of the pandemic, there was no uniform national eviction moratorium. Some local and state governments imposed eviction moratoria, but others did not. Through...more
On March 28, 2021, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) extended its nationwide moratorium on residential evictions, prohibiting the eviction of residential tenants who qualify under the CDC’s...more
On March 10, 2021, Judge Philip Calabrese of the Northern District of Ohio ruled that Congress had not authorized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to adopt a nationwide eviction moratorium for COVID-19....more