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The Ad Hoc Group of Senior Secured Noteholders and DIP Lenders (the “Ad Hoc Group”) obtained a unanimous judgment in their favor in an appeal following Sanchez Energy Company’s long-running, hard-fought bankruptcy case. Once...more
A recent decision by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Illinois underscores that creditors must exercise caution in relying on pre-petition waivers of the automatic stay in collection actions. ...more
In light of the banking failures of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic (as well as Credit Suisse), this summer, the Federal Reserve and the FDIC proposed guidance and rules for larger banks to (i) develop...more
Troutman Pepper's Creditor’s Rights Toolkit is a series that provides practical insights to help creditors confront the challenges of commercial bankruptcy. A claims agent is a third party retained by the debtor to take on...more
Third-Party Releases are common in English law schemes of arrangement and restructuring plans, and US courts have so far indulged that approach in granting recognition. If Prospero’s plea to the audience at the...more
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 new and...more
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
The Bankruptcy Code contemplates the valuation of a secured creditor’s collateral for a variety of purposes at different stages of a bankruptcy case. While title 11 of the United States Code (the “Bankruptcy Code”) does not...more
Financially distressed debtors frequently use Chapter 11 to sell their businesses and assets in one or more transactions, primarily in order to pay down secured debt obligations owed to one or more lenders. In the best case,...more
In this series, we look at how various payment rights are treated in bankruptcy. A summary like this could not possibly address every right that might arise in any given bankruptcy case. We have omitted several of the...more
On August 9, 2019, in a unanimous decision (written by a former bankruptcy judge), the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the confirmation of the Peabody Energy Chapter 11 plan (“Plan”) with a prominent backstopped...more
Weird things happen in bankruptcy court. All you high-falutin Chapter 11 jokers out there, cruise down to the bankruptcy motions calendar one day....more