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A Primer for Creditors Navigating the Bankruptcy System

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Bankruptcy filings affect businesses across America. The Bankruptcy Code is complex and difficult to navigate.  But used properly, it can helpcreditors to minimize losses when a customer files bankruptcy. ...more

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Use It or Lose It! Indemnification Rights May Not Be Asserted against a Post-Confirmation Liquidation Trust

The Fifth Circuit recently held that claims and defenses arising from an indemnification agreement with a debtor could not be asserted against a liquidation trust because the chapter 11 plan barred those claims and defenses,...more

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Avoiding Collateral Damage: Lessons of Lehman [Part II]

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In light of the banking failures of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic (as well as Credit Suisse), this summer, the Federal Reserve and the FDIC proposed guidance and rules for larger banks to (i) develop...more

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Second Circuit Weighs In on Bankruptcy Code v. Chapter 11 Plan Impairment and the Solvent-Debtor Exception

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A handful of recent high-profile court rulings have considered whether a chapter 11 debtor is obligated to pay postpetition, pre-effective date interest ("pendency interest") to unsecured creditors to render their claims...more

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Joint Provisional Liquidators Appointed: All Year Holdings Limited

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Conyers BVI litigators Richard Evans and Charles Goldblatt secure the appointment of Provisional Liquidators over All Year Holdings Limited (“AYH”) at an urgent hearing before the BVI Commercial Court on 20 December 2021. ...more

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New DIFC Insolvency Law: 4 Key Features

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Legislation seeks to balance debtor and creditor needs and help businesses and investors operate with confidence in the Middle East. On 11 June 2019, the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) introduced a new...more

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The Wind Down: a stage of life for start-ups

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Companies and their investors start with great enthusiasm. But in the life cycle of some companies, the enthusiasm (and funding) dissipates before the company has achieved an attractive sale or IPO....more

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Exelco’s US Chapter 11 Case Dismissed in Favor of Belgian Proceeding

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The Delaware Bankruptcy Court recently dismissed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case pending before it and recognized, under Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code, the debtor’s bankruptcy proceeding in Belgium. Exelco NV (“Exelco”), a...more

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Third Circuit Rules That WARN Act's "Unforeseeable Business Circumstances" Exception Requires That Layoffs Be Probable, Not...

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In Varela v. AE Liquidation, Inc. (In re AE Liquidation, Inc.), 866 F.3d 515 (3d Cir. 2017), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit became the sixth circuit court of appeals to rule that a "probability standard"...more

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