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Receiving Line, That’s the Spirit? and Booming Business

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Alex Jones’ Infowars will go up for sale yet again, judge rules | CNN Business - The Onion is set to revive its bid on Jones’s outlet and its assets after a federal judge halted the sale in December....more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Restructuring Roundup - July 2025

AGG’s Restructuring Roundup newsletter is a monthly update of legal issues and news affecting or related to commercial litigation and bankruptcy. The newsletter is a curation of published articles and news, and contains...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Restructuring Roundup - June 2025

AGG’s Restructuring Roundup newsletter is a monthly update of legal issues and news affecting or related to commercial litigation and bankruptcy. The newsletter is a curation of published articles and news, and contains...more

Greenberg Glusker LLP

Vegan Chain Planta Seeks Relief Through Reorganization

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The recent Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing by Planta, a well-known vegan restaurant chain, reflects the mounting financial challenges facing the restaurant sector, particularly for specialty and plant-based establishments. While...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Bankruptcy Refresher: What Business Leaders Should Know as Corporate Filings Increase

As economic pressures mount—higher interest rates, tighter credit, rising labor and material costs—experts warn of a potential surge in corporate bankruptcies. Bankruptcy filings through the first quarter of 2025 are already...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Restructuring Roundup - May 2025

AGG’s Restructuring Roundup newsletter is a monthly update of legal issues and news affecting or related to commercial litigation and bankruptcy. The newsletter is a curation of published articles and news, and contains...more

Jones Day

Business Restructuring Review Vol. 24, No. 2 | March–April 2025

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Fifth circuit rules that serta simmons uptier violated credit agreement, rejects equitable mootness as bar to review of chapter 11 plan confirmation order and excises plan indemnification provision...more

Polsinelli

3rd Quarter 2024 Chapter 11, Healthcare, and Real Estate Distress Indices

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Welcome to the 3rd Quarter 2024 Report for the Polsinelli | TrBK Distress Indices. The indices use filtered Chapter 11 filings as a proxy for distress in the overall U.S. economy and certain subsectors....more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Restructuring Roundup - August 2024

AGG’s Restructuring Roundup newsletter is a monthly update of legal issues and news affecting or related to commercial litigation and bankruptcy. The newsletter is a curation of published articles and news, and contains...more

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

Congress Considers Another Extension to the Subchapter V $7.5 Million Debt Limit

On February 19, 2020, Congress enacted the Small Business Reorganization Act (“SBRA”) to, among other things, streamline the chapter 11 bankruptcy process for a small business by creating subchapter V of the Bankruptcy Code....more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Restructuring Roundup - April 2024

AGG’s Restructuring Roundup newsletter is a monthly update of legal issues and news affecting or related to commercial litigation and bankruptcy. The newsletter is a curation of published articles and news, and contains...more

Mayer Brown

Challenging Times Ahead For Brazilian Companies And Investors

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Brazil has been the single largest recipient of foreign direct investment in Latin America for some time due to its size (7th largest economy and 2nd biggest population in the western hemisphere), its wealth of natural...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Does WeWork’s Going Concern Warning Signal a Potential Bankruptcy Filing?

Three years have passed since the COVID-19 pandemic reached the United States and its effects are still being felt today.  Even though lockdown measures have largely disappeared and many workers have returned to the office,...more

McGlinchey Stafford

Podcast: Cannabis and Bankruptcy, Ep. 1: Considerations for Individuals [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 53]

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Starting a cannabis business is often discussed, but maintaining a business, particularly during a downturn in the industry, is a completely different ballgame. Pockets of the cannabis industry are experiencing financial...more

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LTL, Part Deux (now with even more fraudulent transfers!)

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Here we go again. Precisely one hour and thirty-nine minutes after the dismissal of the bankruptcy filing of LTL, Johnson & Johnson’s artificially created talc-liability subsidiary, the company was right back at it again with...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Third Circuit Dismisses J&J Affiliate LTL’s Talc Liability Chapter 11 Filing; “Good Faith” Under 1112(b) Requires Financial...

Executive Summary: On January 30, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (the “Court”) issued an opinion in In re LTL Management, LLC, No. 22-2003, 2023 WL 1098189, at *1 (3d Cir. Jan. 30, 2023) (“LTL...more

Bracewell LLP

Texas "Two-Step" Forward, Three Steps Back for Mass Tort Debtors in the Third Circuit After LTL

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In a decision that may provide much-needed boundaries around the permissibility of debtors created from “out-of-the-box” prepetition corporate transactions, on January 30, 2023, the United States Court of Appeals for the...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Bankruptcy 101: Ipso Facto Clauses - 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 non-bankruptcy practitioners and professionals.  This entry will discuss how...more

Proskauer - Health Care Law Brief

Diagnosing Distress: Top 5 Challenges for Private Credit Lenders in Health Care Restructurings

Despite the strength of the U.S. economy headed into the New Year, a variety of conditions may be conspiring against businesses in certain segments of the health care industry. These include reduced patient census at skilled...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Seven Commandments for the Financially Distressed Company

Most restructuring professionals will tell you that there is no “typical” restructuring. That is absolutely true. Every financially distressed business is different and the character and direction of its restructuring will be...more

Greenberg Glusker LLP

Bankruptcy & Restructuring - A Roundtable Discussion

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Due in large part to the challenges brought on by the pandemic, Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings last year hit the highest level since 2010—a trend expected to continue throughout this year. Bankruptcy and restructuring is...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Preference Defense In the Wake Of The Pandemic: A Primer

Nothing is more frustrating to a trade creditor holding a large unpaid balance owed by a debtor in bankruptcy than the risk that payments the trade creditor received before the debtor filed bankruptcy may be clawed back by...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Congress Enacts Temporary Bankruptcy Relief Related to COVID-19

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Congress passed new, temporary bankruptcy relief measures late last year that impact certain commercial landlords and tenants. Among other things, the new legislation, which was signed into law on Dec. 27, 2020: 1) extends...more

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Can a Lease Terminated Under State Law be Revived in the Tenant's Bankruptcy?

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In these troubled times when lease and other contract defaults, as well as bankruptcies, abound, it may be useful to reexamine what happens to a lease of commercial real estate when it has been terminated in accordance with...more

Cozen O'Connor

COVID Cash Crunch: Options for Reorganizing or Winding Down Your Company in Illinois

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The financial distress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has left many companies reeling. With no clear end in sight, the bad news is that some businesses will be forced to pursue options for winding down or reorganizing....more

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