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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 …
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By Jeffrey Pawlitz (Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP) In September 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of …
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By Shana A. Elberg, Bram A. Strochlic, and Moshe S. Jacob (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and …
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 …
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 …
Bankruptcy as a National Security Risk
By Jason Jia-Xi Wu (Law Clerk; Harvard Law School) Defense contractors lie at the heart of the U.S. national security regime. …
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Mind the Gap: The Uncertain Status of Aircraft Lenders to Foreign Airlines in Chapter 11
By Prof. Kenneth Ayotte (University of California, Berkeley School of Law) and Gulnur Bekmukhanbetova (Winstead PC) On July …
Bankruptcy Law’s Doctrinal Evolution: An Empirical Study
By Alex Huang (University of Hong Kong) Bankruptcy law professors often remind their students that although the Bankruptcy …
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Judge Goldblatt Reconsiders What Constitutes“Consent” Post Purdue Pharma
By Michelle Saney (Squire Patton Boggs) On June 27, 2024, the Supreme Court issued its long-awaited ruling regarding an …
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The Backstop Party
By Professor Vince Buccola (University of Chicago Law School), Adi Marcovich Gross (Columbia Law School and The Wharton School), …
Independent Directors Properly Exculpated as Debtors’ Disinterested Fiduciaries Under Chapter 11 Plan, Southern District of Texas Bankruptcy Court Rules
By Brian S. Hermann, Jacob A. Adlerstein, Claudia R. Tobler and Lindsay A. Wasserman (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & …
The World of Interlocutory Bankruptcy Appeals
By Bankruptcy Judge Scott C. Clarkson (Central District of California), Taylor Brown-Duncan, (Law Clerk), Sophie Jeltema (Chapman …
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Bankruptcy’s Redistributive Policies: Net Value or a “Zero-Sum Game”?
By Prof. Steven L. Schwarcz (Duke University School of Law) Although federal bankruptcy law, epitomized by Chapter 11, has a …
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Do Rights Offerings Reduce Bargaining Complexity in Chapter 11?
By Professor Gunjan Seth (Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California) One of the primary challenges faced …
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Rockville Centre Case Offers a Framework for Settling Mass Tort Bankruptcy Claims Post-Purdue
By Hon Robert D. Drain (ret.), Justin Winerman and Jamie Slocum (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP) After the U.S. …
False Venue Claims Signed Under Penalty of Perjury
By Professor Lynn M. LoPucki (University of Florida Levin College of Law) In a study of venue for the one hundred ninety-five …
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Lender Liability At Forty: Thinking Through “Implied Covenant” Claims
By James Tecce and Bennett Murphy (Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan) Lender liability cases invariably invoke the …
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The Loan Market Response to Dropdown and Uptier Transactions
By Professor Vincent S.J. Buccola (University of Chicago Law School) and Professor Greg Nini (LeBow College of Business at Drexel …
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Beyond Traditional Financing: Exploring Equity-Linked DIP Strategies in WeWork and Enviva
By Shana A. Elberg, Moshe S. Jacob, and Bram A. Strochlic (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP) 2024 saw a rise in …