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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

Seward & Kissel LLP

Watching the Watchers, Celebrity Status, and Harvester of Sorrow

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Weight Watchers files bankruptcy after growth in GLP-1 drugs | Bloomberg via Yahoo! Finance - Having rebranded as WW International in 2018 and acquired Sequence, a telehealth company, in 2023, the 62-year-old health and...more

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Rite-Aid Files a Chapter 22: Second Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filing in Two Years

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Rite Aid Corporation filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition for the second time in two (2) years in the District of New Jersey Bankruptcy Court, docket #25-14731 (MBK) on May 5, 2025. A repeat filing like this is often...more

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Perk Redux - Yet Another Company Stumbles Over SEC Executive Compensation Rules

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On December 17, 2024, the SEC announced settled charges against Express, Inc. for failing to disclose perks paid to its then CEO, including personal use of airplanes. Without admitting or denying the SEC’s findings,...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

As SPAC Boom Subsides, Some De-SPACed Companies Seek Chapter 11 Protection

The contraction of the market for special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) and the recent challenges de-SPACed companies have encountered have attracted considerable press attention. The stocks of many de-SPACed...more

Greenberg Glusker LLP

Vulnerability of Customers’ Crypto in Bankruptcy; Is Help on the Way?

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The major cryptocurrencies have experienced significant declines in 2022; with the crypto market shedding $2 trillion of its peak $3 trillion market capitalization in November 2021. Amid this “crypto winter,” Terra Luna and...more

Jones Day

The Year in Bankruptcy: 2020

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One year ago, we wrote that the large business bankruptcy landscape in 2019 was generally shaped by economic, market, and leverage factors, with notable exceptions for disastrous wildfires, liabilities arising from the opioid...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

An ‘Affiliate’ of a Public Company Is Barred from Reorganizing Under the Bankruptcy Code’s New Subchapter V

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The Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 (SBRA) aims to simplify and shorten the Bankruptcy Code’s reorganization process for small-business debtors, making Chapter 11 more accessible. Effective as of February 2020,...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Skadden's 2020 Insights

Despite political and economic uncertainties, markets and deal activity were resilient in 2019, and strong fundamentals remain in place heading into 2020. Companies continue to face a challenging litigation and enforcement...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Restructuring Market Trends

The number of corporate Chapter 11 filings in the United States remained relatively low in 2019. An estimated 6,000 business bankruptcies were filed (based on the data available at the time of writing), which, if it holds up...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 11.11.2019 | Top Story: Twitter Screed Prompts Investigation of Apple Card Gender Discrimination

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Here’s about as 2019 as we can get in the financial world (with a healthy dose of 1950s-era gender discrimination for good measure): a series of tweets from tech entrepreneur David Heinemeier Hansson alleging gender...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

WDPA Bankruptcy Court Revamps Procedures to Accommodate Complex Large Chapter 11 Cases

On October 15, 2018, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (“WDPA”) entered a Standing Order implementing complex Chapter 11 procedures. Under the standing order, a Complex Chapter 11 Case is...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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Amazon announced yesterday that it will immediately raise the minimum wage it pays to all 250,000 of its employees (and the 100k it plans to hire for the holiday season) to at least $15/hour, more than double the current...more

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Supreme Court’s Merit Management Ruling Highlights Potential Alternative Path to Safe Harbor

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Possible application of Section 101(22)(A) to safe harbor’s covered entity requirement raises important questions for future transferee defendants. Key Points: ..Merit Management raises the possibility that customers of...more

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