Podcast - Credit Funds: Make-Wholes and Cramdowns: Understanding the Recent Second Circuit Momentive Decision
What’s the Deal? The Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (the “Trust Indenture Act” or the “TIA”)1 is the federal statute regulating the offer and sale of certain debt securities. The TIA, which is closely integrated with the...more
On June 25, 2021, Judge Shannon issued the Memorandum Opinion in In re Tribune Media Company, Chapter 11 Case No. 08-13141 (BLS), U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, on remand from the U.S. District Court for...more
The New York Court of Appeals’ recent 4-3 opinion in CNH Diversified Opportunities Master Account, L.P. v. Cleveland Unlimited, Inc., 2020 WL 6163305 (NY Oct. 22, 2020), could provide minority noteholders with additional...more
The Situation: In a sharply divided 4-3 decision, CNH Diversified Opportunities Master Account, L.P., et al. v. Cleveland Unlimited, Inc. et al., Case No. 42 (Oct. 22, 2020), the New York Court of Appeals reversed the courts...more
In recent years, market participants have watched with interest from across the Atlantic as U.S. out-of-court liability management and restructuring transactions moved material assets out of the creditors' collateral pools,...more
New York County Supreme Court Justice Schecter dismissed a fraudulent conveyance action brought by UMB Bank, N.A., the indenture trustee for certain of Neiman Marcus’ senior notes, on the basis that the applicable indenture...more
In its opinion in Paul Cheatham I.R.A v. The Huntington National Bank, issued on August 22, 2019, the Ohio Supreme Court held that, absent an express assignment of claims, purchasers of distressed bonds do not have a right to...more
The Situation: Following a recent court decision holding that Windstream Services, LLC ("Windstream") failed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in accelerated debt in 2017, the Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee...more
In a brief but significant opinion, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware reversed a decision by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware and allowed more than $30 million in...more
In an overlooked aspect of the recent New York Court of Appeals decision in Cortlandt St. Recovery Corp. v. Bonderman1, New York’s high court has allowed direct claims to move forward against two private equity firms for the...more
Southeastern Grocers (operator of the Winn-Dixie, Bi Lo and Harvey’s supermarket chains) recently completed a successful restructuring of its balance sheet through a “prepackaged” chapter 11 case in the District of Delaware....more
Bass, Berry & Sims attorney Chris Lazarini examined a case of alleged breach of trust and breach of fiduciary duty against a bank acting as the indenture trustee related to a foreclosure action on defaulted mortgage revenue...more
In the recent case of Cortlandt St. Recovery Corp. v. Bonderman (NY Ct. Ap. Feb. 20, 2018), the New York Court of Appeals addressed the question of the limits on the authority of an indenture trustee to pursue remedial...more
A recent decision out of the federal district court in Nevada, BOKF, NA v. Estes D. Nev. March 2, 2018), addressed the interesting question of whether an indenture trustee for municipal bonds could be compelled to arbitrate...more
Among the litany of events of defaults often found in indentures and other credit documents is an issuer’s admission in writing of its inability to pay its debts as they come due. Like other insolvency events of default, this...more
In a short decision, In re that Certain Indenture Date as of April 1, 2010 (MN Ct. App. April 3, 2017), the Court of Appeals of Minnesota recently addressed a challenge to the award of trustee fees and legal expenses brought...more
On March 8, 2017, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware issued a decision in In re Nortel Networks Inc., et al., 2017 Bankr. LEXIS 674 (Bankr. D. Del. Mar. 8, 2017), that addresses the issue of whether an...more
In the Chapter 11 case of Nortel Networks Inc., et al. ("Nortel"), pending in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the "Bankruptcy Court"), a group of senior noteholders (the "Noteholders")...more
Judge Kevin Gross of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware handed down an important ruling last week that turned aside most of an unusual challenge to the fees and expenses of an indenture trustee in the...more
In Nortel Networks, Inc., Case No. 09-0138(KG), Doc. No. 18001 (March 8, 2017), the Delaware Bankruptcy Court ruled on the objections of two noteholders who asked the Court to disallow more than $4.4 million of the $8.1...more
The purpose of this White Paper is to provide guidance to practitioners in their consideration of the application of recent judicial opinions relating to Section 316(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the...more
In This Issue: - In re: Energy Future Holdings Corp., et al, 14-10979 (CSS) (CSC Trust Company of Delaware, as Indenture Trustee, v. Energy Future Intermediate Holdings Company LLC and EFIH Finance, Inc., Adv. Pro No:...more
In This Issue: - In re: Energy Future Holdings Corp., et al, 14 -10979 (CSS) (CSC Trust Company of Delaware, as Indenture Trustee, v. Energy Future Intermediate Holdings Company LLC and EFIH Finance, Inc., Adv. Pro No:...more
In the recent case of Davis v. Elliot Mgmt. Corp. (In re Lehman Bros. Holdings Inc.), 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 48102 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 31, 2014), the District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a decision barring...more
In February 2013 the Supreme Court of Virginia handed down its decision in Jack Bays, a mechanic’s lien lawsuit involving the landowner, several lenders, the general contractor and no fewer than eleven subcontractors....more