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
The growth in private credit (lending by institutions other than banks) has been one of the most significant capital market developments of the last decade. It is estimated that the size of the private credit market was...more
A number of factors have combined to cause an almost “perfect storm” for commercial real estate distress. The COVID-19 pandemic led to a rise in remote and hybrid work, increasing vacancy rates and decreasing property values....more
In an effort to help struggling borrowers stay in their homes, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (“HUD” or “Department”) Federal Housing Administration (“FHA”) recently introduced its newest loss mitigation...more
It is not a secret that the long term care and senior housing industry continues to experience significant financial distress due to, among other things, the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and rising interest...more
Apollo-Led Lenders Sell Yellow Loan to Citadel | Wall Street Journal - Apollo Global Management and other affiliated lenders have exited a $500 million loan with now bankrupt trucking company, Yellow. The loan was sold to...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
Today’s high interest rate environment presents a challenge to many commercial real estate borrowers whose loans are now reaching maturity. Some borrowers are unable to repay their loans, while others are approaching the loan...more
Turmoil in the tech ecosystem and escalating sentiment that a recession in the U.S. might occur in the near-term, indicate that startups, their lenders, and investors may soon confront extreme financial challenges – and will...more
HEADLINES - -Rising interest rates and reduced refinancing options are increasing the likelihood of restructuring and financial distress in the next 12 months -Cov-lite debt packages have given borrowers breathing...more
What if your company was forced to pay twice for all of its purchases from a particular supplier during the last month? What if that double payment obligation instead covered the last three months, six months, or even longer?...more
As fears of a recession grow, it would be prudent for everyone—servicers and regulators alike—to think hard about default servicing improvements and reforms. More than two years after the COVID-19 pandemic took hold of the...more
Background - Almost a year to the day after the EVER GIVEN blocked the Suez Canal, making global headlines and focusing the general public’s attention on the world of shipping, bad news struck the EVER GIVEN’s parent...more
Consider a lender that extends a term loan in the amount of $1 million to an entity debtor. The loan is guaranteed by the debtor’s owner. If both the debtor and the guarantor become subject to bankruptcy cases, it is settled...more
It is no surprise to lenders to operators of long term care facilities that such facilities have faced what may seem an insurmountable obstacle as we transition into our second full year of a pandemic. Long term care...more
I have spoken to a number of people over the past months who have raised money or built technology to take advantage of a broadly anticipated distressed opportunity which was certainly to be occasioned by the pandemic. Did I...more
On January 26, 2021, I participated in a distressed asset panel at the Dressed for Distressed Forum hosted by Commercial Observer along with Aaron Ratner of Empire State Realty Trust, Michael May of Silverstein Properties,...more
The return of Crown Preference on 1 December, 2020 has widely united the restructuring community against the new measures. Whilst the rationale that the Treasury should have priority for sums received by a debtor on its...more
Real estate lenders and borrowers everywhere are trying to figure out what to do with properties that are either sitting vacant or underperforming pre-pandemic expectations. In New York, a number of mezzanine foreclosures...more
How will oil and gas companies adapt to tightening bank loan requirements amid commodity price uncertainty and an ongoing pandemic going forward? Opportune Managing Director David Morris explains on the latest episode of...more
In the third installment of our video series aimed at helping borrowers in uncertain times, Matt Cheek, chair of Williams Mullen’s Financial Services Industry Group, and Mike Mueller, chair of our Restructuring, Bankruptcy...more
The enacted Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act (the Act) introduces three permanent reforms to the existing insolvency legislation and certain temporary measures designed to address the immediate impact of COVID-19 on UK...more
In the second installment of our video series aimed at helping borrowers in uncertain times, Matt Cheek, chair of Williams Mullen’s Financial Services Industry Group, and Mike Mueller, chair of our Restructuring, Bankruptcy...more
In this short, three-part video series, Greenberg Glusker Partners Andrew Apfelberg and Brian Davidoff discuss important financial considerations for health, beauty and wellness companies in the wake of a pandemic. Part three...more
With COVID-19 having shut down many businesses, lenders increasingly are worried about their borrowers’ ability to repay loans. Lenders are concerned about the value of their collateral because of the loss of the spring...more
Retailers faced a difficult financing market before COVID-19 appeared, but lockdowns have made the situation even tougher. High yield and leveraged loan values for retailers in North America and Western and Southern Europe...more