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On March 18, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held in In re Highland Capital Mgmt., L.P., that a plan’s gatekeeping and injunction provisions could not extend to claims against most non-debtors...more
Junior and Senior Lenders work hard to negotiate Intercreditor Agreements. What difference does it make? Isn’t it enough to simply agree that the Junior Lender is in a junior position? This article follows a borrower,...more
In February, a new bankruptcy chapter directed at small businesses will take effect. The Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 (SBRA) was signed into law on August 23 by President Trump and should help make bankruptcy a...more
The Bottom Line - In Hargreaves v. Nuverra Environmental Solutions Inc. (In re Nuverra Environmental Solutions Inc.), 17-1024 (D. Del. Aug. 21, 2018), a Delaware district court upheld a bankruptcy court’s ruling that the...more
On May 26, 2017, an en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion with important ramifications for secured lenders. The Ninth Circuit held that for purposes of determining the amount of a secured...more
On May 3, 2017, the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico filed a voluntary petition for relief on behalf of Puerto Rico in federal court there. The filing required the Chief Justice of the United States...more
Energy Future Holdings (“EFH” or “Debtors”) has cleared all of the preliminary hurdles in its path as it moves towards the confirmation of its plan of reorganization (the “Plan”). Last week Judge Christopher Sontchi of the...more