On August 3, 2023, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas found that the majority of the shares of stock of a reorganized debtor should be allocated to unsecured creditors, and not the secured creditors,...more
A recent U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware opinion, In re TPC Grp. Inc., provided another instance of an uptiering transaction withstanding legal scrutiny and provides further support for the view that courts...more
“Unfair discrimination is rough justice. It exemplifies the Code’s tendency to replace stringent requirements with more flexible tests that increase the likelihood that a plan can be negotiated and confirmed,” announced Judge...more
In Momentive Performance Materials Inc. v. BOKF, NA (In re MPM Silicones, L.L.C.), 874 F.3d 787 (2d Cir. 2017), cert. denied, 138 S. Ct. 2653 (2018), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a number of lower...more
Last year, we discussed a decision by Judge Sean Lane of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York concerning section 109(a) of the Bankruptcy Code. In a recent cross-border case, In re PT...more
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York recently addressed whether secured noteholders against a CDO can waive their entitlement to a portion of the collateral securing all notes issued under an...more
The court awarded OpCo Noteholders in excess of $320 million in Make-Whole Amount and post-petition interest, confirming that make-whole is an enforceable liquidated damage claim....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
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