By Jessica Ljustina (Harvard Law School) Congress passed the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 (“SBRA”) to streamline …
Updated Overview of the Jevic Files: How Courts Are Interpreting and Applying the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Structured Dismissals and Priority Skipping
By Shane G. Ramsey and John T. Baxter (Nelson Mullins) The U.S. Supreme Court in Czyzewski v. Jevic Holding Corp., 137 S.Ct. …
Inequitable Subordination: Distressing Distressed Claims Purchasers by Propagating Subordination Benefit Elimination Theory
By Jay Rao (University of California, Berkeley, School of Law) This Article examines the application of equitable subordination …
Why Chinese Companies File Chapter 15 Cases in US Bankruptcy Courts
By Sara L. Chenetz and Tina N. Moss (Perkins Coie) Reward Science and Technology Industry Group Co., Ltd. (“Reward”) joins a …
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Corporate Restructuring under Relative and Absolute Priority Default Rules: A Comparative Assessment
By Jonathan Seymour, Steven L. Schwarcz (Duke University School of Law) The European Union recently adopted a Restructuring …
Purdue Examiner Letter
By Jonathan C. Lipson (Temple University Beasley School of Law), Adam J. Levitin (Georgetown Law Center), Stephen J. Lubben (Seton …
Chapter 11 Plan Distributions Are Not Collateral Covered by Intercreditor Agreement’s Waterfall Provision
By Brad B. Erens and Mark G. Douglas (Jones Day) In In re Energy Future Holdings Corp., 773 Fed. Appx. 89, 2019 WL 2535700 …
Keeping Up with the Joneses: In Bold Cross-border Move, the DIFC Enacts New Insolvency Law
By Laura Smith (Norton Rose Fulbright) The Dubai International Financial Centre (the "DIFC"), one of the leading international …
Do the Right Firms Survive Bankruptcy?
By Samuel Antill (Stanford Graduate School of Business) In Chapter 11 bankruptcies, a court-supervised negotiation among …
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The Employee Rights in Employer Bankruptcy Act
By Robert Hockett (Cornell Law School) The Blackjewel Coal bankruptcy of summer 2019 exposed critical weaknesses in our …
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Recent Developments in Cross-Border Insolvency and Recognition of Foreign Bankruptcy Proceedings in the US Bankruptcy Courts
By Mark G. Douglas and Dan T. Moss (Jones Day) On July 25, 2019, the Judicial Insolvency Network announced its adoption of …
Notes from the Puerto Rico Oversight (Not Control) Board
By David Skeel (University of Pennsylvania Law School) On June 30, 2016, Congress passed the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management …
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Presumption of Filed Claim’s Validity and Amount Does Not Apply in Proceeding to Determine Secured Amount of Claim
By Paul M. Green, Mark G. Douglas (Jones Day) The Bankruptcy Code creates a rebuttable presumption that a proof of claim is …
A Functional Law and Economics Analysis of the Restructuring Directive from a French Law Perspective
Vasile Rotaru (Droit & Croissance / The Rules for Growth Institute) From a functional law and economics perspective, the …
Same Class, Different Recoveries — No Bar to Plan Confirmation
By Francis J. Lawall and John Henry Schanne II (Pepper Hamilton LLP) In Ad Hoc Committee of Non-Consenting Creditors v. Peabody …
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Corporate Governance, Bankruptcy Waivers and Consolidation in Bankruptcy
By Daniel J. Bussel (UCLA School of Law) Bankruptcy law—once the vanguard of enterprise liability —has increasingly tended to …
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Rent Extraction by Super-Priority Lenders
By B. Espen Eckbo (Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth), Kai Li (Sauder School of Business at University of British Columbia) and …
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The New Bargaining Theory of Corporate Bankruptcy and Chapter 11’s Renegotiation Framework
By Anthony J. Casey (University of Chicago Law School) The prevailing theory of corporate bankruptcy law states that its purpose …
Reorganizing Health Care Bankruptcy
By Laura Coordes (Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law) Many health care providers are experiencing financial distress, and if the …
Involuntary Bankruptcy: Limited Remedy and Strong Sanctions for Abuse
By Michael L. Cook (Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP) Involuntary bankruptcy cases are relatively rare. According to the Second …
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