By Charles Dale and Nathan Lander (Proskauer Rose LLP) A recent Texas bankruptcy court decision In re Walker County Hospital …
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Inconvenient Bankruptcy Appeals
By Michael Cook (Schulte Roth & Zabel) Too many district courts and bankruptcy appellate panels (BAPs) have been refusing …
Judge Rules SPAC Trust Account Sacred for Public Shareholders and Not Property of the Estate
Editor's Note: This will be the HLS BRT's last post of the semester and we look forward to resuming posts in late January 2025. …
Corporate Transparency Act: Are Bankruptcy Trustees and Court Appointed Receivers Obligated to File Beneficial Ownership Information Reports with FINCEN on Behalf of Debtor Entities?
By Mark Wisniewski* (Berger Singerman) The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) requires both domestic and foreign reporting …
Fourth Circuit Holds that Bankruptcy Courts are not Limited by “Case and Controversy” Requirement of Article III
Editor's Note: This is the Harvard Law School Bankruptcy Roundtable’s last scheduled post for the summer of 2024. The BRT intends …
Filling an Empty Arsenal: Puerto Rico’s Bankruptcy from the Recovery Act to PROMESA
By Richard Cooper (Cleary Gottlieb) and Antonio Pietrantoni (Pietrantoni Mendez & Alvarez) Editor's Note: This article was …
The Administrative State in Bankruptcy
By Professor Jared Ellias (Harvard Law School) and Professor George Triantis (Stanford Law School) Bankruptcy is becoming …
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[Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Series] The Rule of the Deal: Bankruptcy Bargains and Other Misnomers and Sorting Bugs and Features of Mass Tort Bankruptcy
Editor's Note: On August 10, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to hear the appeal of the bankruptcy of Purdue …
[Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Series] Are Third-Party Releases Proper?
Editor's Note: On August 10, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to hear the appeal of the bankruptcy of Purdue …
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One Person Can Knock Out Our Firm? Imputation and Retention Risks for Professionals Under Chapter 11
By Marshall S. Huebner, Adam L. Shpeen, and Hailey W. Klabo (Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP) The Bankruptcy Code applies …
Generalized Creditors and Particularized Creditors: Against a Unified Theory of Standing in Bankruptcy
By Jeanne L. Schroeder and David Gray Carlson (Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law) Courts have struggled toward a unified …
Appellate Review of a Bankruptcy Court’s Preliminary Injunction
Note: Last week the Roundtable concluded its series on crypto bankruptcies. We will resume our regular posts beginning with this …
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[Crypto-Bankruptcy Series] The Public and the Private of the FTX Bankruptcy
By Diane Lourdes Dick and Christopher K. Odinet (University of Iowa) Note: This post is the third post in a series of posts …
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Second Circuit Rules that Bankruptcy Courts May Award Appellate Legal Fees as Sanction for Contempt
By Charles M. Oellermann and Mark G. Douglas (Jones Day) Courts disagree whether a bankruptcy court, in exercising its broad …
The Cannabis Conundrum: Can Cannabis Companies File Chapter 15?
By Colin Davidson and Catherine Jun (Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP) Cannabis is now legal in 19 states and …
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The Fee Hike Dilemma: The U.S. Supreme Court Resolves Fee Dispute and Holds Fee Hike Unconstitutional
By Brigid K. Ndege (Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP) and Christian Conway (Clark Hill PLC) Parties have long …
The Unwritten Law of Corporate Reorganizations
Note: The Harvard Law School Bankruptcy Roundtable is pleased to resume regular weekly posts for the academic year. By Douglas G. …
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Who’s Down with OCC(‘s Definition of “Banks”)?
By Matthew A. Bruckner (Howard University School of Law) The number and importance of fintech companies, such as Venmo, …
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Third-Party Releases Under Continued Fire in E.D. Va. Decision
By Adam C. Harris, Douglas S. Mintz, Abbey Walsh, and Kelly (Bucky) Knight (Schulte Roth & Zabel) Earlier …
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[Texas Two-Step and the Future of Mass Tort Bankruptcy Series] The Texas Two-Step and Mandatory Non-Opt-Out Settlement Powers
By Ralph Brubaker (University of Illinois College of Law) Note: This is the sixth in a series of posts on the Texas Two-Step, the …