By Thomas Moers Mayer and Nancy M. Bello (Kramer Levin) Companies in Chapter 11 must publicly report substantial financial …
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New York Bankruptcy Court: Setoff and Unjust Enrichment Cannot Be Asserted as Affirmative Defenses in Bankruptcy Avoidance Litigation
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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Do Hedge Funds Exploit Material Nonpublic Information? Evidence from Corporate Bankruptcies
By Professor Wei Wang, Yan Yang, and Professor Jingyu Zhang (Smith School of Business, Queen’s University) Hedge funds …
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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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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Early Stage Capital Raising Trends in Chapter 11 Reorganizations
Editor's Note: See Professor Kenneth Ayotte's recent Roundtable article on sub rosa DIP loans here. By Judge Robert D. Drain, …
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[Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Series] Are Third-Party Releases Proper?
Editor's Note: On August 10, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to hear the appeal of the bankruptcy of Purdue …
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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 …
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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Recent Developments at the Intersection of Bankruptcy and Environmental Law
By Thomas Goslin (Weil, Gotshal, & Manges LLP) Retired U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert E. Gerber once observed that issues as to …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Recent Delaware Bankruptcy Rulings Address Whether a Plan of Reorganization Can Deny a ‘Make-Whole’ Payment Without Impairing Lenders’ Claims
By Ron E. Meisler, Carl T. Tullson, Jennifer Madden, Justin Larsen (Skadden) A number of recent bankruptcy court rulings have …
Arbitrate? You Can’t Make Me! Rejection Trumps Arbitration, Says Texas Bankruptcy Court
By Ronit J. Berkovich (Weil Gotshal & Manges) and Eric Einhorn (Weil Gotshal & Manges) In a recent decision, In re …
S.D.N.Y. Judge Holds Bankruptcy Code Prohibits Board-Appointed Officers from Receiving Payments Under a KERP
By Sarah M. Bartlett (Harvard Law School) On July 9, 2021, Southern District of New York Judge J. Paul Oetken held that §503(c) …