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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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Cure and Reinstatement of Defaulted Loan Under Chapter 11 Plan Requires Payment of Default-Rate Interest

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Section 1124(2) of the Bankruptcy Code gives chapter 11 debtors a valuable tool for use in situations where long-term prepetition debt carries a significantly lower interest rate than the rates available at the time of...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Good Problems to Have: Recovery of Interest by Unsecured Creditors of a Solvent Chapter 11 Debtor

Imagine this: you sell a product to a company on credit at 8% interest until you are paid, and the company files for bankruptcy before repayment.  Or maybe you are a hard money lender that made an unsecured loan at 18% to a...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

How to Use and Not Use Chapter 11 in Bad Economic Times

At the moment, the bankruptcy court may be an unfriendly place for impatient lenders. As the United States and much of the world reel from the coronavirus pandemic, many businesses’ revenues have been shut off (or close to...more

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Assignment of Rents and Bankruptcy

If you are a lender whose collateral includes rents from an apartment building, shopping mall, or other income-producing property, you might want to check your loan documents to be sure that you have taken an absolute...more

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP

Lenders Take Notice - A New Bankruptcy Subchapter Goes Into Effect February 19, 2020 - Increased Filings Expected

The Small Business Reorganization Act (SBRA) goes into effect on February 19, 2020. The SBRA creates a new Subchapter V to Chapter 11, expanding access to bankruptcy relief for small businesses. With a debt ceiling of...more

Alston & Bird

LSTA Revises Secondary Trading Documents: Notable Changes to Disgorgement Rights, Tax Gross-Up Obligations, and Voting Rights

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Our Distressed Debt & Claims Trading Team provides a summary of the changes the Loan Syndications and Trading Association made to their standard document in the wake of recent bankruptcies and circuit court decisions....more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Bankruptcy Court Finds Arbitration Clause in Consumer Loan Contract to be Sufficient Cause to Grant Relief from Automatic Stay

When a bankruptcy petition is filed, an automatic stay comes into effect staying proceedings against the debtor or the debtor’s property. 11 U.S.C. § 362(a). The stay centralizes litigation regarding the debtor and its...more

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A Secured Lender Must Receive Default Interest Under a Chapter 11 Plan Purporting to Cure a Defaulted Loan in the Ninth Circuit

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A recent Ninth Circuit decision overturned earlier case law allowing debtors to avoid paying default interest when a defaulted loan was "cured" through a confirmed plan of reorganization. In Pacifica L 51 LLC v. New...more

Greenberg Glusker LLP

November Surprise? Ninth Circuit Resurrects Post-Default Interest

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The additional “default interest” owed when a borrower defaults under a loan agreement is a technical but highly critical part of any lending arrangement. This important “default interest” was the subject of a recent Ninth...more

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