El regreso de los mecanismos de emergencia para empresas en insolvencia
Coan vs Killilea, the Dunne Cross-Border Insolvency Case Explained
Findings from Gibbins’ Annual Healthcare Bankruptcy Report
La caída de las normas especiales de insolvencia
Hipótesis de Negocio en Marcha
Law Firm ILN-telligence Podcast | Episode 80: Peter Fousert, PlasBossinade | The Netherlands
What to Do if Your Suppliers Are in Distress - Options Beyond Contract Termination or Default
Commercial Recovery
The Obligations and Responsibilities of Creditors’ Committees in Crypto Bankruptcies
Cannabis and Bankruptcy Laws
Whose Crypto Is It Anyway? Bankruptcy and Crypto - The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Part 2: Additional Implications for Cryptocurrency Companies in Bankruptcy
What Happens When a Cryptocurrency Platform Goes Bankrupt?
Legally Qualified: A Look at Recent Trends that May Affect Bankruptcies and Restructuring in the Year Ahead
The Critical Nature of Bankruptcy Dates and Deadlines
2022 Bankruptcy & Restructuring Outlook
Consensual Third-Party Releases
Kasey Ingram and Rocco Debitetto on Bankruptcy and Compliance
Breaking Down the Latest Decision in the Purdue Pharma Case
The Legal Landscape of Make Whole Payments
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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