Author: David A. Skeel, Jr., University of Pennsylvania Law School The Dodd-Frank Act requires systemically important financial …
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Rolling Back the Repo Safe Harbors
Authors: Edward R. Morrison, Mark J. Roe, and Hon. Christopher S. Sontchi Recent decades have seen substantial expansion in …
Federal Antitrust Laws: A New Tool to Prohibit Pre-Petition Coordination Among Creditors?
By Bradley Purcell, Justin Sabin, and Jamila Willis, Bryan Cave LLP In today’s economic climate, restructuring activity is at a …
Post-Petition Interest: Not Very Predictable
By Vicki Harding, Pepper Hamilton, LLP In a recent case a mortgagee battled the debtor over post-petition interest: When did the …
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Celebrating Six-Months!
The Bankruptcy Roundtable celebrates its six-month anniversary this week and would like to thank the 63 authors, including 36 …
Leases and Executory Contracts in Chapter 11
By Ken Ayotte, University of California at Berkeley Law School This paper offers the first empirical analysis of the timing and …
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Genco: Dry Bulk Shipping Valuations No Longer Anchored to Discounted Cash Flow Method
By Gabriel A. Morgan, Weil Gotshal LLP Discounted cash flow analysis is a mainstay among the valuation methodologies used by …
Emerging Economies and Cross-Border Insolvency Regimes: Missing BRICs in the International Insolvency Architecture
By Steven T. Kargman, President, Kargman Associates Many of the world’s major advanced economies are subject to some form of …
Mind the Gap: Supreme Court Partially Resolves Procedural Uncertainty Created by Stern v. Marshall
By Paul Hessler, Aaron Javian, and Robert Trust, Linklaters LLP On June 9, 2014, in a highly anticipated decision Executive …
Revisiting the Voting Prohibition in Bond Workouts
Author: Carlos Berdejó, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles Economic theory suggests that corporate law should enable parties to …
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The Costs of Corporate Bankruptcy: How Little We Know
Author: Stephen J. Lubben, Seton Hall University School of Law For almost as long as there have been bankruptcy laws, there have …
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The Value of Soft Variables in Corporate Reorganizations
By Michelle Harner, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law When a company is worth more as a going concern than …
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Creditor Conflict and the Efficiency of Corporate Reorganization
By Mark Jenkins at University of Pennsylvania and David C. Smith at University of Virginia While a rich set of theories make …
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Delaware District Court Affirms Order Approving Gifting In Chapter 11 Case
Author: Mindy Mora of Billzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod, LLP In an unusual but practical decision, the U.S. District …
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Eighth Circuit Expands Subsequent New Value Preference Defense in Cases Involving Three-Party Relationships
Authors: Charles M. Oellermann and Mark G. Douglas A bankruptcy trustee or chapter 11 debtor-in-possession has the power under …
Bankruptcy’s Corporate Tax Loophole
By Diane Lourdes Dick, Seattle University School of Law My recent article, Bankruptcy’s Corporate Tax Loophole, 82 Fordham L. …
The Case in Brief Against Chapter 14
Author: Bruce Grohsgal, Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, LLP Resolution of a distressed financial company under Dodd-Frank …
The Chapter 14 Proposal in the Senate
Author: Stephen D. Adams* [This week the Roundtable looks at the Chapter 14 proposal in the Senate. This post provides an …
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Reports of Equity’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
By Adam J. Levitin, Georgetown University Law Center Mark Berman is very kind to take notice of my article in his recent analysis …
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Revisiting the Recidivism-Chapter 22 Phenomenon in the U.S. Bankruptcy System
Author: Edward I. Altman, NYU Stern School of Business This study finds that about 15% of all debtors, who emerge as continuing …
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