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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“A Bitter Result”: Purdue Pharma, a Sackler Bankruptcy Filing, and Improving Monetary and Nonmonetary Recoveries in Mass Tort Bankruptcies
By William Organek (Harvard Law School) Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, filed for bankruptcy in 2019 to resolve …
[Texas Two-Step and the Future of Mass Tort Bankruptcy Series] The Texas Two-Step: The Code Says it’s a Transfer
By Mark Roe and William Organek (Harvard Law School) Note: This is the seventh in a series of posts on the Texas Two-Step, the …
[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 …
[Texas Two-Step and the Future of Mass Tort Bankruptcy Series] Is the Texas Two-Step a Proper Chapter 11 Dance?
By David Skeel (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School) Note: This is the fifth in a series of posts on the Texas Two-Step, …
[Texas Two-Step and the Future of Mass Tort Bankruptcy Series] A Qualified Defense of Divisional Mergers
By Anthony Casey and Joshua Macey (University of Chicago Law School) Note: This is the fourth in a series of posts on the Texas …
[Texas Two-Step and the Future of Mass Tort Bankruptcy Series] Upending the Traditional Chapter 11 Bargain
By Jared A. Ellias (University of California, Hastings College of the Law; Harvard Law School) Note: This is the third in a …
[Texas Two-Step and the Future of Mass Tort Bankruptcy Series] Vertical Forum Shopping in Bankruptcy
By Jonathan C. Lipson (Temple University-Beasley School of Law) Note: This is the second in a series of posts on the Texas Two …
[Texas Two-Step and the Future of Mass Tort Bankruptcy Series] Introduction to LTL Management’s Bankruptcy
By Jin Lee and Amelia Ricketts (Harvard Law School) Note: This is the first in a series of posts on the Texas Two Step, the …
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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Due Process Alignment in Mass Restructurings
By Sergio J. Campos (University of Miami School of Law) and Samir D. Parikh (Lewis & Clark Law School) Mass tort …
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Aviation Chapter 11 Cases Take Flight
By Kelly DiBlasi and Jason George (Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP) Increased competition, rising fuel costs, and the …
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Holdout Panic
By Stephen J. Lubben (Seton Hall Law School) It has been recognized that corporations themselves are designed to promote …
Texas Two-Stepping Out of Bankruptcy
By Michael A. Francus (Harvard Law School) Johnson & Johnson’s use of the Texas Two-Step to manage its talc liabilities has …
A Russian Sovereign Debt Default? No Longer Improbable
By Dennis Hranitzky, Richard East, Liesl Fichardt, Epaminontas Triantafilou, Yasseen Gailani, and Rupert Goodway (Quinn Emmanuel …
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Mitigating Rejection of Midstream Agreements in Bankruptcy
By David H. Sweeney, Jason P. Rubin, and Laura P. Warrick (Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP), with Practical Law Oil & …
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Are Judges Randomly Assigned to Chapter 11 Bankruptcies? Not According to Hedge Funds
By Niklas Hüther (Indiana University) and Kristoph Kleiner (Indiana University) ''The bankruptcy system is supposed to work …
The Judge Behind the Curtain
By Melissa B. Jacoby (Graham Kenan Professor of Law - University of North Carolina School of Law) After a district court halted …