By Mark J. Roe (Harvard Law School) & Michael Simkovic (USC Gould School of Law) Bankruptcy reformers advocate …
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BRT Book Corner: Unjust Debts; The Financial Restructuring Tool Set
Editor's Note: The Harvard Law School Bankruptcy Roundtable is excited to bring readers the first entry in a new semi-annual …
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Bankruptcy’s Turn to Market Value
By Professor Mark Roe (Harvard Law School) and Professor Michael Simkovic (USC Gould School of Law) Many lawyers viewed …
Value Tracing and Priority in Cross-Border Group Bankruptcies: Solving the Nortel Problem from the Bottom Up
By Edward J. Janger (Professor, Brooklyn Law School) and Stephan Madaus (Professor, Martin-Luther-University …
The Hertz Maneuver (and the Limits of Bankruptcy Law)
By Anthony J. Casey (Professor of Law, The University of Chicago Law School), Joshua C. Macey (Assistant Professor of Law, The …
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Secured Creditor’s “Net Economic Damages” Estimate of Disputed Claims “Plainly Insufficient” to Establish Collateral Value
By Paul M. Green and Mark G. Douglas (Jones Day) Valuation is a critical and indispensable part of the bankruptcy process. …
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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Presumption of Filed Claim’s Validity and Amount Does Not Apply in Proceeding to Determine Secured Amount of Claim
By Paul M. Green, Mark G. Douglas (Jones Day) The Bankruptcy Code creates a rebuttable presumption that a proof of claim is …
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 …
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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Fifth Circuit Adopts Flexible Approach to Collateral Valuation in Cramdown Chapter 11 Cases
By Peter S. Saba (Jones Day). In In re Houston Regional Sports Network, L.P., 886 F.3d 523 (5th Cir. 2018), the U.S. Court of …
Junior Creditors Could Share In 363 Bankruptcy Sales
By Charles Tabb and Tamar Dolcourt (Foley & Lardner LLP). In July, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision …
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Optimal Capital Structure and Bankruptcy Choice: Dynamic Bargaining vs. Liquidation
By Samuel Antill and Steven R. Grenadier (Stanford Graduate School of Business) In this work, we develop and solve a …
Beyond Options
By Anthony J. Casey (University of Chicago Law School) and Edward R. Morrison (Columbia Law School) Scholars and policymakers now …
The Future of Solvency and Adequate Capitalization Analysis
By Michael Simkovic, Seton Hall University School of Law Valuation, solvency, and adequate capitalization analyses play a crucial …
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Earnings Management and Firm Value in Chapter 11
Timothy C.G. Fisher, University of Sydney Ilanit Gavious, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Jocelyn Martel, ESSEC Business …
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Genco: Dry Bulk Shipping Valuations No Longer Anchored to Discounted Cash Flow Method
By Gabriel A. Morgan, Weil Gotshal LLP Discounted cash flow analysis is a mainstay among the valuation methodologies used by …
Valuation Methodologies: A Judge’s View
Author: the Hon. Christopher S. Sontchi There are a variety of methodologies to determine the value of assets that are routinely …
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