By Adi Marcovich Gross (Reichman University & The Wharton School) The traditional thinking is that insolvency duties …
Death, Bankruptcy, and the Public Hospital
By Michael Francus (Notre Dame Law School) The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted, and strained, finances across the healthcare …
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COVID-19 Debt and Bankruptcy Infrastructure
By Robert K. Rasmussen (USC Gould School of Law) The COVID pandemic put unprecedented pressure on all economies around the …
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Bankruptcy, Bailout, or Bust: Early Corporate Responses to the Business and Financial Challenges of COVID-19
By Diane Lourdes Dick (Professor of Law, Seattle University School of Law) Over the last year, publicly traded companies have …
Bankruptcy & Bailouts; Subsidies & Stimulus: The Government Toolset for Responding to Market Distress
By Anthony J. Casey (The University of Chicago Law School) In the spring of 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic shut down economies …
Restructuring Corporate Debt – A Different Kind of Cycle
By Mike Harmon (Gaviota Advisors, LLC) and Claudia Robles-Garcia (Stanford Graduate School of Business) Corporate leveraged …
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Bail-outs and Bail-ins are better than Bankruptcy: A Comparative Assessment of Public Policy Responses to COVID-19 Distress
By Kristin van Zwieten (University of Oxford), Horst Eidenmüller (University of Oxford), and Oren Sussman (University of …
Puerto Rico; Act III
By Stephen J. Lubben (Seton Hall University School of Law) Since 2017, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (and certain of its …
Regulating Bankruptcy Bonuses and Protecting Workers in the Age of COVID-19
By Jessica Ljustina (Harvard Law School) Since March, executives of 18 large companies received over $135 million total in …
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Argentina’s Quest for the Moral High Ground in the Recent Restructuring with Its Foreign Bondholders
By Steven T. Kargman (Kargman Associates/International Restructuring Advisors) Argentina’s new government under …
Big Data Meets Bankruptcy
By Carl Wedoff (Jenner & Block), David P. Saunders (Jenner & Block) For as long as there have been consumer …
Insolvency of Significant Non-Financial Enterprises: What Can We Learn from Bank Failures and Bank Resolution?
By Ilya Kokorin, Leiden Law School (The Netherlands) The current economic downturn triggered by the spread of COVID-19 …
Challenges of Emerging Market Restructurings in the Age of COVID-19
By Steven T. Kargman (Kargman Associates/International Restructuring Advisors) As part of the overall global economic slowdown …
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INSOL Europe/LexisNexis coronavirus (COVID-19) Tracker of Insolvency Reforms—China
By Xiahong Chen (China University of Political Science and Law) The modification of Enterprise Bankruptcy Law of the People’s …
What Small Businesses Need Most Is A Little More Time
By Brook Gotberg (University of Missouri Law School; Chair, Small Business Committee of the Bankruptcy & COVID-19 Working …
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Estimating the Need for Additional Bankruptcy Judges in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic
By Benjamin Iverson (BYU Marriott School of Business), Jared A. Ellias (University of California, Hastings College of the Law), …
Congress is ignoring the best solution for troubled companies: bankruptcy
By Jared A. Ellias (University of California Hastings College of the Law), George Triantis (Stanford Law School) During the …
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COVID-19 and the Bankruptcy Court Workload
By Taylor Custer (Harvard Law School) The United States’ response to COVID-19 has led to record levels of unemployment and a …
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Bankruptcy and COVID-19 Working Group
An interdisciplinary group of bankruptcy scholars from the “Large Corporations Committee of the Bankruptcy & COVID-19 Working …
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Amending insolvency legislation in response to the COVID-19 crisis
By Gert-Jan Boon, Leiden University (The Netherlands) The COVID-19 (corona) virus has reached pandemic status. It currently …
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