By Jared A. Ellias (Harvard Law School) and Narine Lalafaryan (University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law; Cambridge Endowment for …
Houston, We Have (Another) Problem
By Jeffrey Pawlitz (Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP) In September 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of …
Judging Business Judgment: The Federal Common Law of Bankruptcy Transactions in Chapter 11
By Dolan Bortner (Stanford Law School) When a federal judge encounters a statutory gap too wide to fill through ordinary …
When Tort Liability Bankrupts Labor
By Alvin Velazquez (Indiana University Maurer School of Law) The main character in 2019 Game of the Year Award winning video …
Liability Management Exercises Mature
By Robert Miller (University of South Dakota Law School) When large, distressed entities restructure, they typically prefer …
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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 …
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), …
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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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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D&O Policy Coverage: Specificity Matters in Bankruptcy Context
By Charles Dale and Nathan Lander (Proskauer Rose LLP) A recent Texas bankruptcy court decision In re Walker County Hospital …
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When Defamation Comes to Bankruptcy Court
By Professor Christopher D. Hampson (University of Florida Levin College of Law) Shortly after Alex Jones and Rudy Giuliani …
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Boston Generating: Second Circuit Triples Down on Its Holding that Transfers Made Under Securities Contracts Are Safe Harbored in Bankruptcy if the Debtor-Transferee is a Customer of a Financial Institution
By Dan T. Moss, Daniel J. Merrett, and Ben Rosenblum (Jones Day) Section 546(e) of the Bankruptcy Code’s “safe harbor” …
The Gift of Exit Financing
By Professor Robert W. Miller (University of South Dakota, Knudson School of Law) Hostile restructurings have spilled over …
Inconvenient Bankruptcy Appeals
By Michael Cook (Schulte Roth & Zabel) Too many district courts and bankruptcy appellate panels (BAPs) have been refusing …
Creditor Coalitions in Bankruptcy
By Professor Jing-Zhi Huang, Professor Stefan Lewellen, and Professor Zhe Wang (Pennsylvania State University) Bankruptcy is …
Novel Issues in the Crypto Bankruptcy Cluster
By Jane VanLare and Jack Massey (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP) The past two years have seen a cluster of …
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Absolute Priority, Relative Priority, and Valuation Uncertainty in Bankruptcy
By Mark J. Roe (Harvard Law School) & Michael Simkovic (USC Gould School of Law) Bankruptcy reformers advocate …
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Judge Rules SPAC Trust Account Sacred for Public Shareholders and Not Property of the Estate
Editor's Note: This will be the HLS BRT's last post of the semester and we look forward to resuming posts in late January 2025. …