By Richard Hynes (University of Virginia School of Law) The ancient right of redemption allows a party to repurchase assets …
Chapter 15 Offers Protection for Cannabis Companies
By David Cohen, Garrett Fail, Robert Niles-Weed, Alex Cohen, Max Bloom, Andrew Clarke (Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP)* The …
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The Erie Doctrine, Code Common Law, and Choice-of-Law Rules in Bankruptcy
By Ralph Brubaker (University of Illinois College of Law) State law pervades bankruptcy litigation, as all parties’ relative …
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Bankruptcy’s Trilemma: A Unifying Framework
By Kenneth Ayotte (University of California Berkeley), Jason Donaldson (University of Southern California), and Giorgia Piacentino …
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Lessons from the Convergence of Corporate Restructurings
By Robert Miller (University of South Dakota Law School) The two principal mechanisms for large corporate …
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The Value And Legality Of Lender Cooperation Agreements
By Brett Seaton (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) Editor's Note: At the time of writing this article, Brett …
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Liability Management 2026: For Better or Worse
By Joshua A. Feltman, Emil A. Kleinhaus, Michael S. Benn, Benjamin S. Arfa, Michael H. Cassel, Stephanie A. Marshak, and Matthew …
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Distressed Debt Legal Insights: Fossil Group’s UK Restructuring Plan
By Leonard Klingbaum, Matthew Czyzyk, Sam Badawi, Nitin Konchady, Faiza N. Rahman, Matthew M. Roose, Natalie Blanc, Natalie Raine, …
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The Global Law of Debt
By Jared A. Ellias (Harvard Law School) and Narine Lalafaryan (University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law; Cambridge Endowment for …
Houston, We Have (Another) Problem
By Jeffrey Pawlitz (Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP) In September 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of …
Judging Business Judgment: The Federal Common Law of Bankruptcy Transactions in Chapter 11
By Dolan Bortner (Stanford Law School) When a federal judge encounters a statutory gap too wide to fill through ordinary …
Liability Management’s Limited Runway: Corporate Restructuring Today
By Mark Roe (Harvard Law School) and Vasile Rotaru (Harvard Law School; University of Oxford) Coercive, non-pro rata debt …
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Lessons From the Silicon Valley Bank Chapter 11: Preserving Indemnification and Contribution Rights
By Shana A. Elberg, Bram A. Strochlic, and Moshe S. Jacob (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and …
Recharacterizing Contracts: The Sale-versus-Loan Problem of Receivables Financing
By Steven L. Schwarcz (Duke University School of Law) and Isabelle Stewart (Duke University School of Law) This Article …
Mass-Tort Trusts and the Faustian Bargain
By Samir D. Parikh (Wake Forest University - School of Law) and Suneal Bedi (Indiana University - Kelley School of …
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Florida Bankruptcy Court: Proposed DIP Financing and Sale Framework for Administratively Insolvent Debtors Did Not Violate Jevic’s Prohibition of Priority-Deviating Distributions
By Jeffrey Ellman (Jones Day) The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Czyzewski v. Jevic Holding Corp., 580 U.S. 451 (2017), that the …
The Real Effects of Bankruptcy Forum Shopping
By Samuel Antill (Harvard Business School) and Aymeric Bellon (UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School) Many firms file for Chapter …
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When Tort Liability Bankrupts Labor
By Alvin Velazquez (Indiana University Maurer School of Law) The main character in 2019 Game of the Year Award winning video …
Liability Management Exercises Mature
By Robert Miller (University of South Dakota Law School) When large, distressed entities restructure, they typically prefer …
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Outnumbered, Not Outplayed: Minority Lenders Successfully Challenge Exclusive Backstop Agreement on Equal Treatment Grounds in ConvergeOne
By Debora Hoehne, Robert J. Lemons, Artem Skorostensky, and Katherine Lynn (Goodwin Procter) The District Court for the …