Podcast - Betty… ¿y si nos vamos a la reorganización?
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
In a much-anticipated judgment (Saipem SPA & Ors v Petrofac Limited & Anor [2025] EWCA Civ 821), the English Court of Appeal overturned the High Court’s sanction of Petrofac’s restructuring plans (the Plans). Petrofac was...more
Maverick Gaming, which owns 5 Nevada casinos, files for bankruptcy | The Nevada Independent - The Washington-based casino and card-room operator filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the Southern District of Texas on Monday....more
Le 26 mai 2025, la Cour du Banc du Roi de l’Alberta (la « CBRA ») a suspendu un projet d’arbitrage en faveur d’une procédure de mise sous séquestre en cours dans l’affaire Mayfield Investments Ltd (Re). C’était la première...more
The evolution of the English RP continues to push the jurisdictional envelope. The English court’s sanction of the Sino-Ocean restructuring plan (RP) marks an interesting development in the evolution of the English RP....more
Introduction - On October 25, 2024, Judge John P. Mastando III of the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York issued a ruling in Eletson Holdings Inc., Case No. 23-10322, pursuant to which he (a) denied...more
It is a rare occasion that one can be assured with certainty that, if they file a motion with a bankruptcy court, it will be granted. But, in the Third Circuit, that is exactly what will happen if a creditor or other party in...more
The scope of the Bankruptcy Code's "safe harbor" shielding certain securities, commodity, or forward-contract payments from avoidance as fraudulent transfers has long been a magnet for controversy, particularly after the U.S....more
Uncertain Future- The Congressional Budget Office (“CBO”) recently released some data for the federal government’s 2023 fiscal year. According to the CBO, the federal budget deficit for the year was $1.7 trillion, or...more
Bankruptcy can be a remarkable tool for rehabilitating a struggling business, preserving jobs and going-concern value, and liquidating the assets of an insolvent company. The drafters of this country's bankruptcy laws...more
As the country begins on the path toward reopening in the current economic climate, white collar defense practitioners will need to become experts in an unfamiliar area of the law: bankruptcy. Because there will be an...more
A recent bench ruling in In re Pace Industries, LLC1 by Judge Walrath for the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the “Court”) has validated a chapter 11 bankruptcy filing by certain debtors in the jointly...more
A series of decisions over the past year — on issues such as make-whole premiums, intercreditor agreements, backstops for rights offerings and nonconsensual third-party releases — will likely have a significant impact in 2020...more
Corporate governance battles spill into bankruptcy courts and at times serve as the genesis for bankruptcy petition filings. For example, recently the Fifth Circuit in In re Franchise Services of North America Inc. addressed...more
Bankruptcy remote structures have become common in recent years to attempt to prevent a borrower from filing for Chapter 11. One such structure is commonly referred to as a “golden share.”...more
On May 22, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (the “Court”) upheld a bankruptcy court’s ruling that a shareholder could exercise the right granted to it in the debtor’s organizational documents to block a...more
Our February 22 post (with updates on March 19, April 17 and April 25) reported on a bankruptcy court decision dismissing a voluntary corporate Chapter 11 petition that had not been approved by a preferred stockholder of the...more
Our February 22 post reported that the Franchise Services of North America, Inc. decision of Bankruptcy Judge Edward Ellington of the Southern District of Mississippi dismissing a Chapter 11 petition because a shareholder had...more