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On the Move
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP has announced that Frank A. Merola joined the Financial Restructuring Practice Group as a partner in the Los Angeles office. Merola was previously a Managing Director in the Recapitalization and Reorganization Group of investment banking firm Jefferies & Company. His recent representations include the Trustees of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Trust; the Debtors in ATP Oil & Gas, Crusader Energy and Insight Health; the Official Committees of Unsecured Creditors in Tronox, Inc., Herbst Gaming, Innkeepers USA Trust and MSR Resorts Golf Course LLC. Prior to Jefferies, Merola was an attorney with the Los Angeles boutique of Stutman, Treister & Glatt, P.C.
Freeborn & Peters LLP has named Eugene (“Gene”) J. Geekie, Jr. as a senior member of the Bankruptcy, Reorganization and Creditors' Rights Practice and Chair of the firm's Bankruptcy Litigation Practice in Chicago. Formerly a partner at Schiff Hardin LLP, Geekie focuses his practice on the representation of secured and unsecured lenders in complex bankruptcies in the financial markets, food, energy and automotive industries, as well as creditors' committees, bankruptcy trustees, and court-appointed receivers.
The DOJ's New Parameters for Evaluating Corporate Compliance Programs
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The DOJ's Corporate Enforcement Policy: One Year Later
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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.
A Lawyer's System for Active Reading
Active reading comprises many daily tasks lawyers engage in, including highlighting, annotating, note taking, comparing and searching texts. It demands more than flipping or turning pages.