To formulate a reinstatement plan that will survive challenges, debtors and creditors should heed the lessons from two high-profile reinstatement cases from the Southern District of New York that were decided just months apart: Charter Communications and Young Broadcasting.
Unable to absorb the potential cost of federal, state and private lawsuits over allegations that it, along with other drugstore chains, oversupplied prescription painkillers, Rite Aid filed for bankruptcy protection in September.
The Eighth Circuit's decision in Simply Essentials has practical significance for Chapter 11 debtor in possession (DIP) lenders. U.S. Trustees and unsecured creditors regularly object to the granting of liens on avoidance actions, but this and other appellate rulings should now eliminate the purported legal obstacle.
When restructuring or liquidating a non-U.S.-based company with U.S. operations, practitioners should consider the benefit and efficiency of utilizing the company's home country laws under a foreign proceeding and a Chapter 15 in the United States.
In an important recent decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reviewed a $1.7 billion syndicated loan and provided a helpful analytical framework for determining whether applicable securities laws were called into play.
This article discusses in substance the most pressing issues for both landlords and tenants in the event of a WeWork bankruptcy filing under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
Bankruptcy courts continue to adjudicate disputes regarding Section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code, which addresses the disposition of executory contracts between the debtor and third parties. And we continue to report on developments in this area. Often the issue involves whether the contract is an executory contract that is subject to being assumed and assigned.
Among the risks of cryptocurrency exchanges are bankruptcy risk and fraud, including: the inalienability of account claims, holding an unsecured claim versus an entitlement to the return of coin, and bankruptcy preference risk.
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York summed up the importance of the determination as to when a bankruptcy case is actually filed of record, thereby triggering the imposition of the automatic stay and found that the "upload" time of a bankruptcy filing — and not the time physically "stamped" on a bankruptcy petition — determines when a case is commenced. In doing so, the Bankruptcy Court offered direction and guidelines that debtors and creditors will be well advised to observe in future cases.
A sharply divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruling shielding a nondebtor in bankruptcy proceedings from asbestos lawsuits underscores the wider and growing divide among judges across the country on the bounds of Chapter 11 protection and corporations' use of the "Texas two-step" to address mass tort litigation.
