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Business Restructuring Review Vol. 24, No. 4 | July–August 2025

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The Ad Hoc Group of Senior Secured Noteholders and DIP Lenders (the “Ad Hoc Group”) obtained a unanimous judgment in their favor in an appeal following Sanchez Energy Company’s long-running, hard-fought bankruptcy case. Once...more

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Bankruptcy Court Refuses to Enforce Pre-Petition Waiver of the Automatic Stay

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A recent decision by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Illinois underscores that creditors must exercise caution in relying on pre-petition waivers of the automatic stay in collection actions. ...more

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Avoiding Collateral Damage: Lessons of Lehman [Part II]

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In light of the banking failures of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic (as well as Credit Suisse), this summer, the Federal Reserve and the FDIC proposed guidance and rules for larger banks to (i) develop...more

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Who Is the Claims Agent and What Type of Information Can I Obtain on Their Website? - Creditor’s Rights Toolkit

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Troutman Pepper's Creditor’s Rights Toolkit is a series that provides practical insights to help creditors confront the challenges of commercial bankruptcy. A claims agent is a third party retained by the debtor to take on...more

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Release Me From My Bands Or Else My Project Fails Third Party Releases in Schemes

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Third-Party Releases are common in English law schemes of arrangement and restructuring plans, and US courts have so far indulged that approach in granting recognition. If Prospero’s plea to the audience at the...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Bankruptcy 101: Claims: Types and Priorities

Bankruptcy Basics for New and Non-Bankruptcy Attorneys - This entry is part of Nelson Mullins’s ongoing “Bankruptcy Basics” blog series that is intended to address foundational aspects of bankruptcy for new and...more

Freeman Law

Bankruptcy Schedules: Schedule D

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Continuing on with our series on Bankruptcy Schedules, today we’ll look at Schedule D, which is used to list all of the secured debts that you owe as of the date that you filed for bankruptcy.  Secured debts are those that...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

When values become stale: valuation of collateral in bankruptcy proceedings – In re S-Tek 1, LLC, a case study

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The Bankruptcy Code contemplates the valuation of a secured creditor’s collateral for a variety of purposes at different stages of a bankruptcy case. While title 11 of the United States Code (the “Bankruptcy Code”) does not...more

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Bankruptcy Court Chooses Dismissal Over Conversion Based On The Support Of The Debtor And All Key Creditors

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Financially distressed debtors frequently use Chapter 11 to sell their businesses and assets in one or more transactions, primarily in order to pay down secured debt obligations owed to one or more lenders. In the best case,...more

Bowditch & Dewey

Getting Paid in Bankruptcy – Part II, Goods and Services

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In this series, we look at how various payment rights are treated in bankruptcy. A summary like this could not possibly address every right that might arise in any given bankruptcy case. We have omitted several of the...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

The Same, Only Better: Eighth Circuit Affirms Peabody Chapter 11 Plan Backstopped Rights Offering Despite Alleged Disparate...

On August 9, 2019, in a unanimous decision (written by a former bankruptcy judge), the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the confirmation of the Peabody Energy Chapter 11 plan (“Plan”) with a prominent backstopped...more

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Killjoy Bankruptcy Court Denies Debtors’ Motion to Buy Totally Boss Camaro

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Weird things happen in bankruptcy court. All you high-falutin Chapter 11 jokers out there, cruise down to the bankruptcy motions calendar one day....more

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