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Third Circuit Court Orders Solvent Debtors to Pay Contract Rate Interest, Make-Whole Fees to Unsecured Creditors

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Introduction - On September 10, 2024, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit decided in In re Hertz that although make-whole fees are unmatured interest typically disallowed by section 502(b) of the Bankruptcy Code, a...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Bankruptcy Court Finds There Is No Excuse for Inconvenienced Creditors

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The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia held recently that unsecured creditors who fail to monitor bankruptcy proceedings for treatment of their claim do not show “excusable neglect” and must face the...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Key Issues When Navigating A Tenant's Bankruptcy

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Recently, two significant distressed companies with thousands of commercial leases, Rite Aid Corp. and WeWork Inc., each filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, seeking in part to rationalize their geographic footprints through...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Debtor Corp’s S Election: “Property” in Bankruptcy?

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Uncertain Future- The Congressional Budget Office (“CBO”) recently released some data for the federal government’s 2023 fiscal year. According to the CBO, the federal budget deficit for the year was $1.7 trillion, or...more

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Chapter 11 Plan Confirmed in Boxed, Inc.

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On August 30, the bankruptcy court for the District of Delaware confirmed Boxed Inc.’s second amended plan of liquidation on a fully consensual basis. The plan is the result of a global settlement among the debtors, the...more

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Who Is the Claims Agent and What Type of Information Can I Obtain on Their Website? - Creditor’s Rights Toolkit

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Troutman Pepper's Creditor’s Rights Toolkit is a series that provides practical insights to help creditors confront the challenges of commercial bankruptcy. A claims agent is a third party retained by the debtor to take on...more

Cole Schotz

Top Considerations for Vendors Dealing with Distressed Companies

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As of March 2023, commercial chapter 11 filings were up 79% compared to the same period of 2022, which includes a number of large retailers. The first quarter of 2023 saw the highest number of corporate bankruptcy filings in...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Retail Apocalypse Part II? What Trade Creditors and Landlords Can Do To Protect Themselves

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At the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, some commentators were preparing for a mass extinction event in the retail industry, characterized by hundreds of brick-and-mortar store closings, massive job losses, and numerous...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Are Unsecured Creditors of a Solvent Debtor Entitled to Post-Petition Interest at the Contract Rate? Recent Circuit Court of...

Two recent decisions from circuit courts of appeal – the Fifth and Ninth – have addressed a question that does not arise often: in a solvent-debtor chapter 11 case, is the debtor required to pay post-petition interest...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Court Sides With Minority View Concluding Intervention Under Section 1109(b) Does Not Apply to Adversary Proceedings

In a recent decision in Dillworth v. Mahecha Diaz, Adv. No. 20-1079-SMG, 2022 WL 1123004 (Bankr. S.D. Fla. April 15, 2022), the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida found that a post-confirmation creditors’...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

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Delaware Bankruptcy Court Rules that Unsecured Creditors of a Solvent Debtor Are Entitled to Post-Petition Interest at the Federal...

On December 22, 2021, Judge Mary Walrath of the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware held in In re The Hertz Corp. that redemption premiums may potentially qualify as unmatured interest, and that, to the extent that...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Paper Source Bankruptcy Offers Lessons for Vendors Playing Their Cards

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On March 2, 2021, stationery and gift retailer Paper Source filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy, stating in court filings that effects of the COVID-19 pandemic damaged its finances and operations. Paper Source stated that in...more

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Dorsey U.S. Bankruptcy Law Q&A Series Five (Chinese Version)

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We hope that you found the four previous Q&A series regarding what to do when a U.S. customer files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection helpful. This Series Five will address questions relating to the role of official...more

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

Big Changes to Small Business Bankruptcies: Timely Amendments to The Bankruptcy Code Throw A Lifeline to Small Businesses...

The Small Business Reorganization Act (“SBRA”), which became effective February 19, 2020 after being signed into law in August 2019, created a new Subchapter V of Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code with a stated purpose “to...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Texas Bankruptcy Court Allows Make-Whole Premiums, Post-Petition Interest on Unsecured Claims at Contractual Default Rate

On Oct. 26, in a highly anticipated decision, the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, In re Ultra Petroleum Corp. Corp., et al., Case No. 16-32202 (Bankr. S.D. Tex. 2020), held that certain noteholders were...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Dorsey U.S. Bankruptcy Law Q&A Series Five

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We hope that you found the four previous Q&A series regarding what to do when a U.S. customer files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection helpful. This Series Five will address questions relating to the role of official...more

A&O Shearman

Rough Justice: Third Circuit Holds in Tribune That a Cramdown Plan May Discriminate—But Not Unfairly—By Reallocating a Portion of...

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On August 26, 2020, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that the Bankruptcy Code does not require subordination agreements to be strictly enforced in order for a court to confirm a cramdown plan, so long as the...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

Dechert LLP

Gerrymandering votes in bankruptcy?  The classification of an undersecured claim 

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Confirmation of a Chapter 11 plan generally requires the consent of each impaired class of creditors. A debtor can “cramdown” a plan over creditor dissent, however, as long as at least one class of impaired claims accepts the...more

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Big Changes for Small Business Bankruptcies

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The Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 (SBRA) was signed into law in August 2019 and will go into effect on February 19, 2020. The goal of the SBRA is to make small business bankruptcies faster and less expensive....more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

A Look at 2019 Court Decisions That May Shape Restructuring Issues in the Year Ahead

A series of decisions over the past year — on issues such as make-whole premiums, intercreditor agreements, backstops for rights offerings and nonconsensual third-party releases — will likely have a significant impact in 2020...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

No, You’re a Customer: Recent Second Circuit Decision Circumscribes Merit and Preempts State Law Impairment of Safe Harbor...

On December 19, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (the “Second Circuit”) affirmed a ruling of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “District Court”)...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

Is it Time to Re-Write Your Attorney's Fees Provision?

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Bankruptcy court is not the first place that comes to mind when a lender thinks about full recovery on a loan. Usually, debtors file bankruptcy because they can't pay all their creditors in the ordinary course of business....more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

The Same, Only Better: Eighth Circuit Affirms Peabody Chapter 11 Plan Backstopped Rights Offering Despite Alleged Disparate...

On August 9, 2019, in a unanimous decision (written by a former bankruptcy judge), the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the confirmation of the Peabody Energy Chapter 11 plan (“Plan”) with a prominent backstopped...more

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