By Anaïs Alle (Harvard Law School, L.L.M. 2022) Reorganization proceedings, in contrast to liquidation sales, constitute a …
Bankruptcy-Remote Structuring: Reallocating Risk Through Law
By Steven Schwarcz (Stanley A. Star Distinguished Professor of Law & Business, Duke University School of …
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Bankruptcy Court Ruling Imposes Lender Liability
By Daniel S. Shamah, Jeff Norton, Jennifer Taylor, Sung Pak, and Joshua Chow (O'Melveny & Myers LLP) “Lender liability” is an …
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Voting Rights Assignment Unenforceable, but Subordinated Creditor Lacked Standing to Participate in Chapter 11 Plan Confirmation Process
By Dan B. Prieto (Jones Day) and Mark G. Douglas (Jones Day) In In re Fencepost Productions Inc., 629 B.R. 289 (Bankr. D. …
The Aftermath of a Complicated Breakup: Third Circuit Holds Stalking Horse Bidder in Terminated Transaction May Assert Potential Administrative Expense Claim Notwithstanding Disallowance of Its Termination Fee
By Ronit J. Berkovich (Weil) In a recent decision, In re Energy Future Holdings Corp., 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 7400 (3d Cir. 2021) …
Rethinking Priority: The Dawn of the Relative Priority Rule and a New ‘Best Interest of Creditors’ Test in the European Union
By Axel Krohn (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) The European Directive on restructuring and insolvency …
Ultra III: Law Firm Perspectives
By Xiao Ma (Harvard Law School) On November 26, 2019, the Fifth Circuit granted a petition for rehearing en banc and issued a …
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 …
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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Absolute Priority Redux: First-Day Orders and Pre-Plan Settlements in Chapter 11 Post-Jevic
By Bruce Grohsgal (Delaware Law School Widener University) Bankruptcy’s absolute priority rule arose 150 years ago to prevent …
Triangular Setoff Impermissible Under Section 553: No Contracting or Theorizing Around It, Section 553 Requires Mutuality
By Ronit J. Berkovich, Andriana Georgallas and Aarti Gupta (Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP). In a recent decision, In re Orexigen …
Fifth Circuit’s Ultra Petroleum Decision Suggests Make-Wholes are Unenforceable in Bankruptcy, Questions Collectability of Contract Rate Postpetition Interest
By Donald S. Bernstein, Timothy Graulich, Marshall S. Huebner, Darren S. Klein, Brian M. Resnick, Christopher Robertson, Damian S. …
Secured Credit and Effective Entity Priority
By Christopher W. Frost (University of Kentucky - College of Law) The historical and doctrinal development of secured transactions …
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Junior Creditors Could Share In 363 Bankruptcy Sales
By Charles Tabb and Tamar Dolcourt (Foley & Lardner LLP). In July, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision …
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