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The New Battle of Midway: Appeals Court Finds Middle Ground for Lessors to Recover All Post-Petition Lease Obligations
The leasing industry is going through wars again. In addition to bankrupt industrial companies and retailers, airlines are either in bankruptcy or teetering on the brink of a Chapter 11 filing. Such precarious times engender a host of issues for lessors, the paramount question of course being “do I get paid?” Key to that is what lessors are entitled to for the “post-petition” phase, the time between the date of the bankruptcy filing and the date the lease is either assumed or rejected by a bankruptcy trustee or a debtor in possession (“DIP”). Fractious court decisions have made it uncertain how and for how much lessors may recover for post-petition contractual lease obligations, but now a new appellate court decision may prove to be the turning point toward victory for the leasing industry.
Destined to be a new benchmark in lessors' rights to recover in bankruptcy cases, this new case is titled CIT Communications Finance Corporation v. Midway Airlines Corp. (In re Midway Airlines Corp.), 406 F.3d 229 (4th Cir. 2005). As is well known, Midway Airlines succumbed to insolvency in 2001, and at first attempted to reorganize pursuant to Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. Unfortunately, it was unsuccessful in that endeavor, and its case was converted to a Chapter 7 liquidation.
Bankruptcy Sales: Finding a Diamond In the Rough
There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.
Judge Rules Shaquille O'Neal Will Face Securities Lawsuit for Promotion, Sale of NFTs
A federal district court in Miami, FL, has ruled that former National Basketball Association star Shaquille O'Neal will have to face a lawsuit over his promotion of unregistered securities in the form of cryptocurrency tokens and that he was a "seller" of these unregistered securities.
Why So Many Great Lawyers Stink at Business Development and What Law Firms Are Doing About It
Why is it that those who are best skilled at advocating for others are ill-equipped at advocating for their own skills and what to do about it?
Blockchain Domains: New Developments for Brand Owners
Blockchain domain names offer decentralized alternatives to traditional DNS-based domain names, promising enhanced security, privacy and censorship resistance. However, these benefits come with significant challenges, particularly for brand owners seeking to protect their trademarks in these new digital spaces.
Supreme Court Rules Rejection of Trademark License Does Not Rescind Rights of Licensee
Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC The question is whether a debtor's rejection of its agreement granting a license "terminates rights of the licensee that would survive the licensor's breach under applicable nonbankruptcy law."