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Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

New Jersey Bankruptcy Court Rules That Debtor Could Not Sell its Future Accounts Receivable Prepetition

A bankruptcy court in New Jersey recently granted a debtor’s motion to dismiss the counterclaims of two creditors who purchased a percentage of the debtor’s future receivables prepetition. The court rejected the creditors’...more

White and Williams LLP

Of Whiskey and Martha’s Vineyard Realty:  Federal Receivership Ordered for Fast Growing Uncle Nearest Brand

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Companies facing financial difficulties often utilize Chapter 11 to help effectuate a restructuring or sale as part of a case filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court. In other instances, a company’s lender – impatient...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

The End of Non-Pro Rata Uptiers? Fifth Circuit Rules that Serta Exchange was Not an “Open Market Purchase”

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (the “Fifth Circuit”) ruled on December 31, 2024 that Serta Simmons Bedding’s (“SSB”) 2020 uptier exchange included a transaction that, contrary to the assertions of...more

King & Spalding

Bankruptcy Court Determines that Dividend Payments Permitted Under Subordinated Loan Agreement Are Not Fraudulent Conveyances

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On January 18, 2024, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for District of South Carolina entered judgment, after a bench trial, in favor of minority shareholders of a debtor whose liquidating trust had sued to recover dividend payments...more

Jones Day

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

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Whose right is it? Impact of bankruptcy on lender's prepetition exercise of proxy rights

In In re CII Parent, Inc., the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware affirmed a secured lender’s prepetition exercise of its proxy rights and its subsequent removal and replacement of the directors/managers of the...more

Lerch, Early & Brewer

Revocation of Revocable Trust was Fraudulent Transfer

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In JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. v. Winget, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit addressed whether Larry Winget (Winget) could revoke the Larry J. Winget Living Trust (Trust) to make the assets unreachable to...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

What’s in a Name? Court Holds That Despite Its Title, a Security Agreement Also Subordinated Junior Creditor’s Rights to Payment

On October 29, 2021, Judge Laura Taylor Swain, the presiding judge in the Puerto Rico bankruptcy case, ruled that approximately $2 billion in intragovernmental loan claims were subordinated to bonds issued by the Puerto Rico...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

New York’s Highest Court Finds That Federal Bankruptcy Law Does Not Preempt State Law Tortious Interference Claims in Important...

On Nov. 24, 2020, the State of New York Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Kramer Levin client Sutton 58 Associates LLC (Sutton), an affiliate of Gamma Real Estate, in its $100 million lawsuit brought against real estate...more

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No let up for oil and gas borrowers

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The oil and gas sector has been one of the hardest hit by COVID-19 lockdowns and there has been little relief as restructurings rise across the industry - The oil and gas (O&G) upstream sector continues to face financing...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Bankruptcy Recourse in MCA Agreements

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In preparing a merchant cash advance (MCA) agreement on behalf of the provider, there is constant tension between the urge to include every conceivable contractual right for protecting the provider’s economic interests and...more

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Make-Whole Provision Upheld by Bankruptcy Court Despite Lender's Loan Acceleration

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In a win for lenders, on March 18, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York held that an unambiguous make-whole provision in a loan contract was enforceable under New York law, despite the fact that the...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Puerto Rico Case Highlights Need for Secured Parties to Adhere to Good Practices in Documenting Secured Transactions

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Manufacturers encounter financing statements in many contexts – as a borrower, as a supplier of goods sold on credit, as a seller in a leveraged acquisition, as a seller of equipment where financing is provided to the buyer...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Filling an Enforcement “Make-Whole”: Bankruptcy Court Enforces Prepayment Premium Notwithstanding Prepetition Loan Acceleration

On March 18, 2019, Judge Stuart M. Bernstein of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York issued a decision enforcing a mortgage lender’s claim for a prepayment premium (a/k/a make-whole or...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Recent Developments with Make-Whole Provisions in Chapter 11 Cases

A make-whole provision (also known as prepayment premium or call protection) in a loan agreement usually requires a debtor to pay a penalty based on a fixed percentage of the amount of a loan balance the debtor voluntarily...more

Morris James LLP

Anti-Assignment Clause in Promissory Note Enforceable under Delaware Law to Disallow Claim Transfer

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On June 20, 2018, Judge Carey of the Delaware Bankruptcy Court issued an opinion in the Woodbridge Group of Companies bankruptcies enforcing an anti-assignment clause contained in a promissory note to restrict assignment...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Ontario Court Addresses Debt Re-Characterization Argument in CCAA Proceeding

On February 29, 2016, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice released a decision in the ongoing insolvency proceeding of U. S. Steel Canada Inc. (USSC). Two principal issues were addressed by the Court. First, whether amounts...more

King & Spalding

New Decision on Enforceability of Make Whole Provisions

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Another bankruptcy court — this time in New York — has weighed in on the issue of whether “make whole” provisions are enforceable in bankruptcy. See In re MPM Silicones, LLC, et al. (a/k/a Momentive Performance Materials). ...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

U.S. District Court Reaffirms Distressed Debt Funds Not Eligible Assignees under Loan Agreement

A recent decision by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington found that certain distressed debt funds were not “financial institutions” under the definition of “Eligible Assignee” in the applicable loan...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

District Court Denies Distressed Funds the Right to Vote on Bankruptcy Plan

The US District Court for the Western District of Washington (the "District Court") recently affirmed a bankruptcy court decision that prohibited a transferee of a secured lender's interest in a loan from voting on a debtor's...more

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