By Professor Nancy Rapoport (William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas) As someone who studies …
Bankruptcy Venue Reform
By Nicholas Cordova (Harvard Law School) Although the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is headquartered in Texas, it filed for …
COVID-19: Rethinking Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Valuation Issues in the Crisis
By Andrew N. Goldman, George W. Shuster Jr., Benjamin W. Loveland, Lauren R. Lifland (Wilmerhale …
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Bankruptcy and Aircraft Finance
By Franklin H. Top III, Stephen R. Tetro, Richard F. Klein, James M. Heiser (Chapman and Cutler LLP) Hundreds of billions …
Bankruptcy’s Role in the COVID-19 Crisis
By Edward R. Morrison and Andrea C. Saavedra (Columbia Law School) Current COVID-19 policies treat bankruptcy law as a last …
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COVID-19 Impacts on Landlords of Retail Debtors
By Scott K. Charles, Amy R. Wolf, Michael H. Cassel (Wachtell) This memorandum addresses one of the impacts of COVID-19 on …
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Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act Expands the Scope of the Small Business Reorganization Act
By Jessica Ljustina (Harvard Law School) Congress passed the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 (“SBRA”) to streamline …
Do Bankruptcy Courts Have Constitutional Authority to Approve Nonconsensual, Third-Party Releases?
By Shmuel Vasser and Cara Kaplan (Dechert) The Third Circuit, applying the Supreme Court’s decision in Stern v. Marshall, …
Inequitable Subordination: Distressing Distressed Claims Purchasers by Propagating Subordination Benefit Elimination Theory
By Jay Rao (University of California, Berkeley, School of Law) This Article examines the application of equitable subordination …
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 …
Same Class, Different Recoveries — No Bar to Plan Confirmation
By Francis J. Lawall and John Henry Schanne II (Pepper Hamilton LLP) In Ad Hoc Committee of Non-Consenting Creditors v. Peabody …
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Bankruptcy’s Cathedral: Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Distress
By Vincent S.J. Buccola (University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School) What good can a corporate bankruptcy regime do in the …
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Bankruptcy Sales: Is A Public Auction Required to Assure That Property Is Sold for The Highest and Best Price?
By Vicki R. Harding (Vicki R. Harding, PLLC) A buyer negotiating acquisition of commercial real estate from a Chapter 7 trustee …
What’s Wrong with Chapter 11?
By Charles J. Tabb (University of Illinois College of Law) The time has come to cast a discerning eye at chapter 11, the United …
Consumer Response to Chapter 11 Bankruptcy: Negative Demand Spillover to Competitors
By O. Cem Ozturk (Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business), Pradeep K. Chintagunta (University of Chicago), …
How Much Value Was Destroyed by the Lehman Bankruptcy?
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Liberty Street Economics Blog has run a series of five posts seeking to estimate the total …
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Courts As Institutional Reformers: Bankruptcy and Public Law Litigation
Kathleen G. Noonan (University of Pennsylvania), Jonathan C. Lipson (Temple University—Beasley School of Law), and William H. …
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The Year in Bankruptcy: 2017
by Charles M. Oellermann and Mark G. Douglas (Jones Day). In their annual chronicle of business bankruptcy, financial, economic, …
Practice Makes Perfect: Judge Experience and Bankruptcy Outcomes
By Benjamin Charles Iverson (Brigham Young University), Joshua Madsen (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Carlson School of …
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Justice Scalia’s Bankruptcy Jurisprudence: The Right Judicial Philosophy for the Modern Bankruptcy Code?
By Megan McDermott (Lecturer, University of Wisconsin School of Law). The late Justice Scalia is best known among mainstream …