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Coan vs Killilea, the Dunne Cross-Border Insolvency Case Explained
Spotlight on Financial Services- Consumer bankruptcy
SDNY Chooses “Time Approach” to Calculating Lease Termination Damages Collectible Against a Bankrupt Estate
Cannabis and Bankruptcy, Ep. 2: Considerations for Businesses [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 54]
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 383: Talking about Money with Jesse Mecham, Founder of You Need A Budget
Recent Tenth Circuit Decision in John Q Hammons Fall Following SCOTUS’ Decision in Siegel v. Fitzgerald Could Result in Significant Refunds for Certain Chapter 11 Debtors
What Happens When a Cryptocurrency Platform Goes Bankrupt?
The Constitutionality of Increased Trustee Fees In Bankruptcy
The Burr Broadcast: CFPB Investigating Practices That Leave Workers Indebted to Employers
Legally Qualified: A Look at Recent Trends that May Affect Bankruptcies and Restructuring in the Year Ahead
The Critical Nature of Bankruptcy Dates and Deadlines
Common Benefits Issues in Bankruptcy
2022 Bankruptcy & Restructuring Outlook
Credit Eco to Go Podcast: Competing for the Attention of the Consumer
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 146: Listen and Learn -- Mortgages and Priority
Credit Eco to Go Podcast - The Results are In: Consumers Really Do Respond Better to Digital Communications
Repossessions and Bankruptcy Post-COVID, Post-Fulton [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 26]
Don’t Wait! What Businesses Should do at the First Sign of Financial Trouble
Nota Bene Podcast Episode 132: 2021 Business Bankruptcy Trends with Ori Katz
Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code allows a Chapter 11 debtor to sell assets "free and clear" of existing claims, liens, encumbrances, and other liabilities. This provision facilitates expedited sales that might otherwise be...more
In Firstbase.io, Inc. v. Harbor Business Compliance Corporation, No. 24-04043, 2025 Bankr. LEXIS 1092 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.), the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York found that a judgment execution lien...more
Bankruptcy Court Elects to Follow Majority Interpretation of 11 U.S.C. § 363(f)(5) On March 4, 2025, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (the Bankruptcy Court) issued a significant...more
Market participants might be wary of opinions that begin with a recitation of academic literature and then turn to dictionaries. The former tend to be authored with an eye toward systemic change rather than direct experience...more
This blog post addresses: (1) steps to be taken, (2) issues to be aware of, and (3) recovery prospects when a general contractor files for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, from the owner’s...more
In the right situations, the United States Bankruptcy Code provides powerful tools for acquiring distressed companies and realizing economic value, including synergies from vertically integrating suppliers or customers, or...more
“Easter eggs are basically messages or particular references deliberately hidden throughout a movie that the usual movie-goer often fails to notice but they are always there.” Most articles about Chief United States...more
This practice note discusses the requirements for the attachment and perfection of consensual security interests in personal property under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC). A security interest is said to attach...more
As we pass the midpoint of 2022 and the world expresses a collective sigh of relief that the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be behind us, a perfect storm of extraordinary factors is creating conditions for financial...more
There is no set of fixed rules when negotiating intercreditor arrangements as every deal is fact-specific, generally subject to significant negotiation and ultimately dependent on competing business rationales and negotiating...more
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
While things worked out for vendors who did not file a UCC-1 in the Sports Authority Chapter 11, you may not be so lucky. Never assume that it is not necessary to properly perfect a consignment arrangement by filing a...more
It is well recognized that, in keeping with the "fresh start" or "rehabilitative" policy, the Bankruptcy Code invalidates after-acquired property clauses in prepetition security agreements, but also includes an exception to...more
In many chapter 11 cases, creditors’ committees can play a vital role in maximizing the recoveries of unsecured creditors. But the powers of creditors’ committees are circumscribed by both the Bankruptcy Code and case law....more
The Bankruptcy Code grants the power to avoid certain transactions to a bankruptcy trustee or debtor-in-possession. See, e.g., 11 U.S.C. §§ 544, 547–48. Is there a general requirement that these avoidance powers only be...more
11 U.S.C. 362(d)(1) empowers the Bankruptcy Court to grant relief from the automatic stay on the request of a party-in-interest “for cause, including lack of adequate protection of an interest in property of such party in...more
Much of the bankruptcy chatter arising from the pandemic world in which we find ourselves is now focusing on the cascade of new bankruptcy cases that are predicted to arrive soon. We have already seen the effects of closed...more
The Bankruptcy Code contains an array of provisions designed to encourage lenders to provide debtor-in-possession ("DIP") financing in chapter 11 cases, including authorization of "superpriority" administrative expense claims...more
The ability of a trustee or chapter 11 debtor in possession ("DIP") to sell bankruptcy estate assets "free and clear" of liens on the property under section 363(f) of the Bankruptcy Code has long been recognized as one of the...more
While secured creditors are entitled to special rights in bankruptcy, those rights may differ depending on whether creditors have a statutory or consensual lien on their collateral. This is primarily because section 552(a)...more
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued an opinion, City of Concord, N.H. v. N. New England Tel. Operations, LLC (In re N. New England Tel. Operations LLC), 795 F.3d 343 (2d Cir. 2015), addressing an issue of...more
In re Oak Knoll Assocs., L.P., 525 B.R. 175 (Bankr. D. Me. 2015) – A real estate broker sought allowance of an administrative expense claim for his commission in connection with a sale of real estate. The debtor and...more
Farmer v. Citizens Nat’l Bank of Athens (In re Davis), 528 B.R. 757 (Bankr. E.D. Tenn. 2015) – A chapter 7 trustee sought a court determination that the trustee had a superior claim to settlement proceeds arising from...more