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Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Fifth Circuit Holds that Gatekeeping and Injunction Provisions in Bankruptcy Plans Cannot Shield Non-Debtors From Liability

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

Quarles & Brady LLP

Intercreditor Agreements in Bankruptcy: How Intercreditor Agreements shape the proceedings and outcomes for secured creditors

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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

Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP

Countdown to the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019: New Law Taking Effect in February 2020 May Make Chapter 11...

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

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Horizontal Gifting Upheld in Chapter 11 Plan in the Third Circuit

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

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Ninth Circuit Holds That Valuation of Secured Creditor’s Collateral in Chapter 11 Need Not Be Based on Property’s Highest and Best...

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

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Puerto Rico Files for Bankruptcy: New York Judge to Hear Case

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

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Energy Future Holdings – Kicking a Very Large Can Down the Road

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

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