By Daniel J. Merrett (Jones Day) In a 2021 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit revived nearly 100 …
Academic Roundup 2023-2024 with Reorg
The Harvard Law School Bankruptcy Roundtable’s collaboration with Reorg continues with the first Reorg/BRT Academic Roundup. This …
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Can Reasonable Minds Disagree? Wesco Sends Uptier Claims to Fact-Finding
By Ryan Preston Dahl, Leonard Klingbaum, Stephen Iacovo, and Tessa Ptucha (Ropes & Gray LLP) Judge Isgur’s recent …
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FTX’d: Conflicting Public and Private Interests in Chapter 11
By Professor Jonathan C. Lipson (Temple University- James E. Beasley School of Law) and Professor David A. Skeel (University of …
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Mass Tort Bankruptcy Goes Public
By Professor William Organek (Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College) Large companies like 3M, Johnson & Johnson, …
Against Bankruptcy; Bankruptcy by Another Name
Editor's Note: As the Supreme Court considers the bankruptcy of Purdue Pharma and whether the nonconsensual nondebtor releases …
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One Step Ahead: Restructuring Considerations in an Uncertain Economic Climate
By Lisa M. Schweitzer and Thomas Kessler (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP) At the end of 2023, economic indicators …
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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 …
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 …
Bankruptcy Amnesia
By Jonathan Lipson (Temple University Beasley School of Law) [Editor's Note: The author represented, on a pro bono basis, an …
Roundup: Ultra Petroleum and Contractual Make-Wholes
The Fifth Circuit held in October of this year in In re Ultra Petroleum Corp., 51 F.4th 138 (5th Cir. 2022) that a contractual …
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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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Preference Due Diligence in the Crypto Winter
By Michael Rosella (Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP) and Dan McElhinney (Stretto) The crypto winter has arrived! Among many other …
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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 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] 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 …
Fifth Circuit Doubles Down on Right to Reject Filed-rate Contracts, but With an Exception
By Ronald Silverman, John Beck and Katherine Lynn (Hogan Lovells) The Fifth Circuit recently issued an opinion, Federal …
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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Corporate Bankruptcy Has Lasting Effects on CEO Careers through Frictions in Executive Labor Market
By Andreas Kostøl (Arizona State University - W.P. Carey School of Business; Norges Bank), Morten Grindaker (Norwegian Business …