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The State of the Credit Markets: Implications for the Restructuring Community Image

The State of the Credit Markets: Implications for the Restructuring Community

James D. Decker & James S. Hadfield

A recent regression from credit recovery trends calls into question whether the momentum from early this year can be regained.

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Municipal Bankruptcy: Coming Soon to a Court Near You

Richard Lapping & Sarah Trum

As tax revenues have declined in the face of falling incomes, sales and property values, more cities small and large have disclosed that resort to Chapter 9 of the Bankruptcy Code, the municipal bankruptcy law, has made it onto their agendas.

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Movers & Shakers

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Who's doing what; who's going where.

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News Briefs

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Highlights of the latest franchising news from around the country.

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Court Watch

Alexander G. Tuneski

Highlights of the latest franchising cases from around the country.

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State Regulators Declare Registration Do's and Don'ts

Kevin Adler

At the "Ask the Regulators" session at the IFA's 2010 Legal Symposium, representatives of three registration states offered suggestions about how to make the franchise state-registration process run more smoothly.

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In the Marketplace

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Highlights of the latest equipment leasing news from around the country.

District Court Recognizes Texas Legislation in Overturning Clark Contracting Decision Image

District Court Recognizes Texas Legislation in Overturning Clark Contracting Decision

Michael D. Jewesson

On April 14, 2010, the federal district court reviewing the <i>Clark Contracting</i> decision overturned the bankruptcy court and gave effect to the language in SB1592 that indicated that the legislation was a clarification of existing law rather than a change to the law.

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Bankruptcy Plan Sales: Secured Lenders Do Not Have an Absolute Right to Credit Bid Image

Bankruptcy Plan Sales: Secured Lenders Do Not Have an Absolute Right to Credit Bid

Sam J. Alberts & and David Lee Tayman

In a decision that could have wide-ranging consequences for secured lenders and the distressed debt market, a divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has held that secured creditors do not have an absolute right to credit bid the value of their loans in Chapter 11 plan-based sales of assets.

Pre-packaged Bankruptcies: A Faster Way to Emerge from a Bankruptcy Involving Leases? Image

Pre-packaged Bankruptcies: A Faster Way to Emerge from a Bankruptcy Involving Leases?

Michael P. Richman, Mark Salzberg & David G. Mayer

Traditional Chapter 11 reorganizations have proven to be costly and disruptive for corporate debtors. Section 363 sales have largely supplanted traditional Chapter 11 reorganizations because they are faster and more cost efficient. Though not a new concept, parties have recently opted to pursue "pre-packaged" bankruptcy filings or "pre-packs.

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