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Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Restructuring Roundup - June 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

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Navigating the Increased Prevalence of Massachusetts Skilled Nursing Facility Receiverships

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This past year, in the wake of significant economic challenges facing the health care industry, an unprecedented number of receiverships were imposed upon skilled nursing facilities in Massachusetts. Historically,...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

What Is an Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors and How Does It Differ From a Bankruptcy? - Creditor’s Rights Toolkit

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An assignment for the benefit of creditors (ABC) is a process by which a financially distressed company (referred to as the assignor) transfers its assets to a third-party fiduciary (referred to as the assignee). The assignee...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors – an often-overlooked state law alternative to Chapter 7 bankruptcy

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For some folks the three letters ABC are a reminder of elementary school and singing a song to learn the alphabet. For others, it is a throw back to the early 70’s when the Jackson Five and its lead singer Michael, still...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Bankruptcy in the Cannabis Space

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Though controversial, cannabis has steadily grown into a booming industry. Despite this rapid growth and the legalization of cannabis in numerous states, cannabis is still classified as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Alternatives to Bankruptcy for Cannabis Companies (Part 2)

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Part 1 of this series discussed the lack of bankruptcy protections for cannabis companies since bankruptcy in the U.S. is an exclusively federal procedure and cannabis remains illegal under federal law and proposed a number...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Does WeWork’s Going Concern Warning Signal a Potential Bankruptcy Filing?

Three years have passed since the COVID-19 pandemic reached the United States and its effects are still being felt today.  Even though lockdown measures have largely disappeared and many workers have returned to the office,...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Budding Woes: Navigating the Weedy Waters of Cannabis Companies in Financial Distress

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As the cannabis industry matures, there will be winners and losers. Losers lack access to the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Marijuana related assets cannot be sold free and clear of liens and encumbrances via the tried and true...more

Freeman Law

Bankruptcy Schedules: Schedule D

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Continuing on with our series on Bankruptcy Schedules, today we’ll look at Schedule D, which is used to list all of the secured debts that you owe as of the date that you filed for bankruptcy.  Secured debts are those that...more

Stinson LLP

FTX Fallout: How Sponsorship Partners are Moving Forward

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Prior to its collapse, cryptocurrency exchange FTX spent millions in sponsorship dollars securing the naming and promotional rights to National Basketball Association stadiums, Formula 1 organizations, esports teams and...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

LTL, Part Deux (now with even more fraudulent transfers!)

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Here we go again. Precisely one hour and thirty-nine minutes after the dismissal of the bankruptcy filing of LTL, Johnson & Johnson’s artificially created talc-liability subsidiary, the company was right back at it again with...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

The Unfair Contradiction of the Conflict of State and Federal Laws on the Bankruptcy Proceedings of Dispensary Employees

There is seemingly, in the opinion of a great number of bankruptcy courts, a conflict between the United States Bankruptcy Code requirements that a debtor reorganize or liquidate “in good faith,”  the federal Controlled...more

Bracewell LLP

Texas "Two-Step" Forward, Three Steps Back for Mass Tort Debtors in the Third Circuit After LTL

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In a decision that may provide much-needed boundaries around the permissibility of debtors created from “out-of-the-box” prepetition corporate transactions, on January 30, 2023, the United States Court of Appeals for the...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Bankruptcy 101: Ipso Facto Clauses - Bankruptcy Basics for New and Non-Bankruptcy Attorneys

This entry is part of Nelson Mullins’s ongoing “Bankruptcy Basics” blog series that is intended to address foundational aspects of bankruptcy for non-bankruptcy practitioners and professionals.  This entry will discuss how...more

Greenberg Glusker LLP

Bankruptcy & Restructuring - A Roundtable Discussion

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Due in large part to the challenges brought on by the pandemic, Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings last year hit the highest level since 2010—a trend expected to continue throughout this year. Bankruptcy and restructuring is...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Preference Defense In the Wake Of The Pandemic: A Primer

Nothing is more frustrating to a trade creditor holding a large unpaid balance owed by a debtor in bankruptcy than the risk that payments the trade creditor received before the debtor filed bankruptcy may be clawed back by...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Congress Enacts Temporary Bankruptcy Relief Related to COVID-19

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Congress passed new, temporary bankruptcy relief measures late last year that impact certain commercial landlords and tenants. Among other things, the new legislation, which was signed into law on Dec. 27, 2020: 1) extends...more

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Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 Amends Bankruptcy Code - Part 1: Amendments Clarifying Debtors’ Rights to Other Pandemic...

On December 27, 2020, in response to the economic distress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and to supplement the CARES Act enacted in March 2020, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (the “Act”) was enacted. In...more

Rosenberg Martin Greenberg LLP

The Trustee Is Suing Me For A Transfer I Received How Many Years Ago?

Any creditor that has experienced more than a few customers or borrowers filing for bankruptcy is aware that there is a risk of being sued by a trustee to avoid transfers that the creditor received prior to the bankruptcy...more

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Can a Lease Terminated Under State Law be Revived in the Tenant's Bankruptcy?

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In these troubled times when lease and other contract defaults, as well as bankruptcies, abound, it may be useful to reexamine what happens to a lease of commercial real estate when it has been terminated in accordance with...more

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Considering Lease Concessions In The Face Of A Tenant Bankruptcy

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Landlords are receiving a deluge of requests to provide rent relief to commercial tenants whose operations have either been closed or substantially restricted as a result of state and local governments’ COVID-19 stay-at-home...more

Morgan Lewis

Debtors Need Not Apply? Continuing Developments on the SBA’s Authority to Deny PPP Loans to Debtor Applicants

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The Small Business Administration on April 24 issued an update to an interim final rule, crystalizing its view that applicants that have sought protection under the US Bankruptcy Code are not qualified borrowers under the...more

Cooley LLP

Alert: Options for US Small Businesses in Distress in Age of COVID-19

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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, more and more businesses are finding themselves in distress. According to Forbes, 30 million small businesses across the United States are experiencing financial distress, with half of...more

Akerman LLP

Bankruptcy Courts Continue to Accept Equitable Arguments for Deferring Rent Payments During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Previously we reported on debtors’ appeals to bankruptcy courts’ general equitable powers for assistance in weathering the COVID-19-induced economic storm. ...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Is a Purchase in Bankruptcy Really Free and Clear of Liability During COVID-19?

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Seyfarth Synopsis: In acquiring a company in bankruptcy, there is often a tendency to think this guarantees the purchaser will be “free and clear” of any liability (including so-called “successor liability”). This is not...more

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