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No sector is receiving more press about the impact of the rapid rise in interest rates than the commercial real estate industry. It seems like every day there is another article about the billions — or trillions — of dollars in debt that will mature over the next 24 months, secured by interests in real estate. For many properties, the owners’ equity has been wiped out, and the lenders will be left to exercise rights to foreclose their collateral. An interim step in this process is often the appointment of a receiver to operate and or preserve the property during the foreclosure process. Many clients are not aware that the Bankruptcy Code provides that, upon the filing of a bankruptcy case, the receiver is required to give back possession of the mortgaged property to the debtor unless the lender obtains an order from the Bankruptcy Court excusing the receiver from this requirement. And most of the time, the lender does not want possession returned to the debtor that defaulted under the loan. So when can a receiver be excused from this requirement?
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Litigation Finance Offers Significant Benefits for Restructuring Matters
By Jeffery Lula
In today’s volatile economic climate, companies need to be more creative to find ways to mitigate risk. Litigation finance is one of those out-of-the-box solutions that can provide benefits.
Key Win Likely for Commercial Shopping Center Lessor In Second Circuit
By Michael L. Cook
The Second Circuit, on remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, further remanded to the district court the key issue of whether the Chapter 11 debtor gave “adequate assurance of future performance of” a commercial real property shopping center lease “as required by [Bankruptcy Code] §365(b)(3)(A),” after the debtor’s assignment of its lease.
By Lawrence J. Kotler and Ryan Spengler
While this case does not fully open the courthouse doors to cannabis-related businesses and seemingly grants the bankruptcy courts a great deal of discretion when ruling on similar cases in the future, cannabis-related businesses may now have a roadmap to pursue reorganization.
By Francis J. Lawall and Brenden S. Dahrouge
In upholding the bankruptcy court’s determination that the payment of insurance proceeds could be such a transfer, the Fifth Circuit underscored the complex interplay between state law, bankruptcy law and the rights of creditors in bankruptcy proceedings.
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