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Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Restructuring Roundup - March 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

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

JOANN, Inc. to Close 500 Stores Nationwide

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On January 15, 2025, JOANN Inc. commenced voluntary Chapter 11 proceedings in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. That was the second bankruptcy filing in a year for JOANN, an 82-year old fabric and craft...more

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Global Franchise & Supply Network - 2025 Report

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While 2024 saw more stability in the financial markets than 2023, many challenges arose in 2024 for franchised businesses, manufacturers and retail chains, including bankruptcies of many large restaurant and retail chains,...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Spring-Time Brand Preparations

As Spring comes into bloom, brands should begin planning and preparing for the not-so-far-off holiday season. Right now, a brand has approximately six months to strengthen its presence in ecommerce marketplaces until the...more

Seward & Kissel LLP

Beyond Your Wildest Dreams, Coin Cloudy Forecast, Robinhood to Give to the Recently Poor, and No Place Like Home Décor

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Bed Bath & Beyond is closing 149 more stores | CNN - Bed Bath & Beyond has expanded its list of additional stores they expect to close, from 87 to 149. In total the company is reducing its store count from 760 to about...more

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Welcome to the Party, Pal, About to Take a Bath, Genesis of a Bankruptcy and Brazilian BK

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Party City Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection | Reuters - Party City filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday, signaling the latest retailer to seek bankruptcy protection as high inflation has affected consumer...more

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Landlords win victory in latest CVA challenge case

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In the latest High Court decision relating to Company Voluntary Arrangements in the UK, the judge held that the Regis hairdressing group CVA should be revoked on the basis that it favoured shareholders at the expense of...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 3.31.2020 | Top Story: US retail giants furlough hundreds of thousands of workers as locations remain closed

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Macy’s announced on Monday that it will furlough most of its nearly 130,000 workers (at its Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s, and Bluemercury retail locations) starting this week as its stores remained shuttered due to the pandemic....more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

How the bankruptcy system needs to change

Successful Chapter 11s for retailers have become few and far between. Sears, Toys "R" Us, Barneys New York, Forever 21, Coldwater Creek, Fred's, Fairway and A&P are just a few examples of recent retail disasters... ...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

A Look at Retail Restructurings: Forever 21

Kramer Levin was selected as counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Forever 21 and its affiliates, which filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware on Sept. 29, 2019. Forever 21 is a specialty fashion...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 9.18.2019 | Top Story: Fed Carries Out Rare Market Operation to Steady Rates

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The Federal Reserve took the rare step yesterday of stepping “into financial markets . . . to keep interest rates from rising above its target, the first time the central bank has had to carry out this type of ‘market...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

BHS: A CVA Unwound

The financial distress in the UK high street has brought with it a resurgence of the use of company voluntary arrangements (“CVAs”)....more

Hogan Lovells

BHS Company Voluntary Arrangement – Landlords Win on Penalties

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The English High Court has decided that collapsed retailer British Home Stores cannot challenge its own company voluntary arrangement as an unenforceable contractual penalty and must repay rental discounts to its landlords...more

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