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Bowditch & Dewey

Ten Reasons to Expect an Increase in Financial Restructurings in 2025

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1. Commercial Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filings Have Increased Significantly Year-Over-Year: There has been a significant increase in the number of commercial Chapter 11 cases (larger company filings) in 2024. By way of example,...more

Jones Day

Cure and Reinstatement of Defaulted Loan Under Chapter 11 Plan Requires Payment of Default-Rate Interest

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Section 1124(2) of the Bankruptcy Code gives chapter 11 debtors a valuable tool for use in situations where long-term prepetition debt carries a significantly lower interest rate than the rates available at the time of...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Trends in Private Credit Restructuring: Out of Court “Change of Control” Transactions

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Restructurings defy a one-size fits all approach because every deal is unique and different tools are required to solve different problems. At one end of the restructuring continuum is the so-called “amend and extend,” where...more

Goodwin

Second Circuit Rules that Syndicated Loans Are Not “Securities” Under State and Federal Law

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On August 24, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Kirschner unanimously  held that notes evidencing syndicated loans do not plausibly qualify as “securities” covered by state and federal securities laws...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Fore!ward June 2023 - Make-Whole Clauses: It's All About the Enforceability Question

Make-whole clauses (also known as prepayment premiums, call premiums or call protection) are provisions in financing transactions that require the borrower to make a specified payment to the lender if a loan is prepaid before...more

Dechert LLP

Texas Court Voids Lender’s Bankruptcy Consent Requirement

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Lenders often attempt to limit what a borrower can do outside the ordinary course of business by negotiating contractual protections. Some of these provisions are designed to make the borrowers bankruptcy remote by, for...more

Seward & Kissel LLP

Bank Contagion Spreads, Celsius Still Sending the Wulf? Voyager Nearing End of Journey, and Info (Salary) Wars

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Crypto-friendly lender Silvergate collapses | CNBC - Silvergate, a Crypto focused lender, announced it will wind down its operations and voluntarily liquidate the bank. This announcement comes a week after Silvergate...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Good Problems to Have: Recovery of Interest by Unsecured Creditors of a Solvent Chapter 11 Debtor

Imagine this: you sell a product to a company on credit at 8% interest until you are paid, and the company files for bankruptcy before repayment.  Or maybe you are a hard money lender that made an unsecured loan at 18% to a...more

Morgan Lewis

When Is a Guaranty Claim Reduced by Recovery in a Debtor’s Bankruptcy Case?

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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

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

We Can Work It Out: Overcoming Obstacles to Real Estate Workouts

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

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

The Best Laid Plans: How a Proposed Sale of NYC Real Estate Under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code Went Awry

There are several ways in which property owners can advantageously use the Bankruptcy Code to effectuate strategic dispositions of assets. But the bankruptcy process can be fraught with uncertainty that can upend the best...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

How To Respond When Your Banker Requests A Visit

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Borrowers should not be surprised when their lender requests a “checkup,” financial review, or audit. Lenders are nervous. Despite long-term institutional relationships with customers, many banks are seeking to reduce...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

How to Use and Not Use Chapter 11 in Bad Economic Times

At the moment, the bankruptcy court may be an unfriendly place for impatient lenders. As the United States and much of the world reel from the coronavirus pandemic, many businesses’ revenues have been shut off (or close to...more

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Assignment of Rents and Bankruptcy

If you are a lender whose collateral includes rents from an apartment building, shopping mall, or other income-producing property, you might want to check your loan documents to be sure that you have taken an absolute...more

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP

Lenders Take Notice - A New Bankruptcy Subchapter Goes Into Effect February 19, 2020 - Increased Filings Expected

The Small Business Reorganization Act (SBRA) goes into effect on February 19, 2020. The SBRA creates a new Subchapter V to Chapter 11, expanding access to bankruptcy relief for small businesses. With a debt ceiling of...more

Jones Day

Fifth Circuit Rules That Corporate Charter Provision Requiring Shareholder Consent for Bankruptcy Filing Is Enforceable but...

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In a highly anticipated decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently affirmed a bankruptcy court order dismissing a chapter 11 case filed by a corporation without obtaining—as required by its corporate...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

District Court Upholds Damage Limitations for Lender’s Refusal to Fund: Lyondell Revisited

In the August 2017 issue of Debt Dialogue, we discussed the recent decision by Judge Martin Glenn of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York with respect to claims brought by the litigation trust (the...more

Baker Donelson

Lyondell Trial Teaches Lender Lessons

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Multiple draw and revolving loan lenders and counsel can find three important lessons in the 84 page trial ruling after eight years of litigation, three federal judges, and more than five interesting opinions. See Weisfelner,...more

Allen Matkins

A Secured Lender Must Receive Default Interest Under a Chapter 11 Plan Purporting to Cure a Defaulted Loan in the Ninth Circuit

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A recent Ninth Circuit decision overturned earlier case law allowing debtors to avoid paying default interest when a defaulted loan was "cured" through a confirmed plan of reorganization. In Pacifica L 51 LLC v. New...more

Cozen O'Connor

Third Circuit Rules in Favor of Noteholders on Make-Whole Provision in Debt Indenture

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Debt indentures often contain what is known as a “make-whole” provision, which requires the borrower, upon an early repayment of the debt, to make an additional payment to the lender to compensate the lender for its...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"Oil and Gas Companies Brace for Fall Redeterminations"

For most of 2015, industry observers have predicted that depressed commodity prices will result in a surge in M&A activity among domestic exploration and production (E&P) companies, as well as a large number of bankruptcy...more

Dechert LLP

Global Private Equity Newsletter - Fall 2015 Edition: Recent Developments in Acquisition Finance

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When a portfolio company underperforms, a sponsor may consider various options to address the perceived performance issues, including changes to a portfolio company’s management team, cost structure, capital structure or...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Committee's Attack upon Lender's Make-Whole Premium Denied

The United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the “Court”) recently upheld a $23.7 million make-whole payment (the “Make-Whole Payment”) in In re School Specialty (Case No. 13-10125), denying the assertion...more

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