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Texas Bankruptcy Court Recommends Denying Summary Judgment in Case Alleging Fraudulent Transfer of PPP Funds to Make Settlement...

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On May 16, 2024, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas recommended that the district court largely deny cross motions for summary judgment in an action by the liquidating trust for Fresh Acquisitions,...more

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U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas Denies Motion for Summary Judgment in Case Challenging “Uptier”...

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On January 14, 2024, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas largely denied cross motions for summary judgment on aggrieved noteholders’ claims arising from a so-called “uptier” transaction. In 2019,...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Two Steps Too Far: New Limitations on the Use of the Texas Two- Step to Resolve Mass Tort Liability in Bankruptcy

This paper explores the mechanisms by which companies have utilized corporate restructuring through divisive mergers in conjunction with the available protections and tools of the United States Bankruptcy Code to resolve mass...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Trouble in Texas: Resignations and Scandal - Eurofenix, Winter 2023/24

The fall of Enron Texas is the second largest US state (after Alaska). It is an economic engine in the US, fuelled primarily by the oil and gas industry. When Houstonbased Enron Corporation filed its Chapter 11 case in the...more

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Texas Bankruptcy Court Awards Majority Stake in Reorganized Debtor to Unsecured Creditors After Avoiding the Value of the...

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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

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Diamond Sports Group swings for the fences (and strikes out)

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During a U.S. bankruptcy case, can a debtor pay something less than the full contract rate provided for in a contract entered into prior to the bankruptcy while still requiring the counterparty to fully perform its...more

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U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas Upholds “Uptier” Transaction in Serta Bankruptcy Case

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On June 6, 2023, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas upheld an “uptier” transaction in which Serta Simmons, before it filed for bankruptcy, provided some of its existing lenders with new priming loans...more

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Georgia-Pacific Ruling Furthers Texas Two-Step Challenges

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently approved injunctive relief as part of a strategy for settling mass tort claims through the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case of Bestwall LLC, an entity created by...more

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Fifth Circuit Rules Bankruptcy Court to Abstain from ERCOT-Winter Storm Uri Case

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On January 5, 2023, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (the “Fifth Circuit”) vacated a decision from the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division (the...more

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Texas "Two-Step" Forward, Three Steps Back for Mass Tort Debtors in the Third Circuit After LTL

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In a decision that may provide much-needed boundaries around the permissibility of debtors created from “out-of-the-box” prepetition corporate transactions, on January 30, 2023, the United States Court of Appeals for the...more

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Fraudulent Transfers | Badges of Fraud

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After a break for the holidays, this is the third of an expected five-part series on fraudulent transfers. In my first blog, I laid out the basic statutory framework, as well as a described generally the difference between...more

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Elements of Fraudulent Transfers Under Bankruptcy Code and TUFTA

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This is the second of an expected five-part series on fraudulent transfers. In my first blog, I laid out the basic statutory framework, as well as described generally the difference between actual and constructively...more

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J&J Battle Continues in Third Circuit; Not the Last Mile; Infowars Conflicts; and GTT Heads for the Exit?

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...S&K Take: The big-ticket item in this week’s installment of What’s News. The Third Circuit is considering the viability of the Texas Two-Step strategy. This is the decision that everyone will have their eyes on, as it will...more

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Texas Bankruptcy Court Rejects Rejects Use of Ponzi-Scheme Presumption in “Ponzi-Like” Fraud Case

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On June 3, 2022, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas refused to extend the “ponzi-scheme presumption” in connection with an actual intent fraudulent transfer claim because there was no actual ponzi...more

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Delaware Court Finds Texas’s Trust Fund Doctrine Lives, but Debtor’s Fiduciary Claims Dead on Arrival

A Delaware bankruptcy court recently held that Texas’s “trust fund doctrine” remains applicable for companies that have not availed themselves of Texas’s formal dissolution process.  Nonetheless, fiduciary claims by a...more

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Not in My Court: Northern District of Texas Bankruptcy Court Dismisses NRA Bankruptcy Cases as Filed in Bad Faith

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On May 11, 2021, Judge Harlin D. Hale, of the Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas (the “Court”) found that the bankruptcy cases of the National Rifle Association of America (“NRA”) and its subsidiary Sea Girt...more

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Ultra Petroleum Bankruptcy Court Again Allows Make-Whole Premiums, Postpetition Default Interest—At Least For Solvent Debtors

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In a much-anticipated decision issued on October 26, the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas awarded make-whole premiums and post-petition interest (i.e., interest accruing after the bankruptcy filing) to...more

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