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Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Restructuring Roundup - May 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

Jones Day

Business Restructuring Review Vol. 24, No. 2 | March–April 2025

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Fifth circuit rules that serta simmons uptier violated credit agreement, rejects equitable mootness as bar to review of chapter 11 plan confirmation order and excises plan indemnification provision...more

DLA Piper

Delaware District Court Sheds Light on Standards for Dismissal of Chapter 11 Case Based on Bad Faith

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On August 28, 2024, Judge Gregory B. Williams of the US District Court for the District of Delaware issued a ruling in AIG Financial Products Corporation, Civ. No. 23-573, affirming an order on appeal from the Delaware...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

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

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Third Circuit Dismisses J&J Affiliate LTL’s Talc Liability Chapter 11 Filing; “Good Faith” Under 1112(b) Requires Financial...

Executive Summary: On January 30, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (the “Court”) issued an opinion in In re LTL Management, LLC, No. 22-2003, 2023 WL 1098189, at *1 (3d Cir. Jan. 30, 2023) (“LTL...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

Amundsen Davis LLC

Bankruptcy Judge Slashes Rent Due By Restaurant Tenant During COVID-19

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According to at least one bankruptcy judge sitting in the Northern District of Illinois, an appropriately drafted force majeure clause in a lease can excuse a debtor tenant from paying full rent during Illinois’ government...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

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