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Regeneron declines to make higher bid for 23andMe after Wojcicki's $305 million offer | Reuters - 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki’s bid, submitted through a nonprofit she controls, remains unchallenged, setting her up to...more
In In re Pearl Resources LLC, a Houston bankruptcy court rejected the Texas General Land Office’s attempt to partially terminate state oil and gas leases in Pecos County, despite finding the operator had breached offset well...more
The United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently affirmed summary judgment granted by the bankruptcy court in favor of commercial property insurer in a Winter Storm Uri claim, holding that the insured motel owners...more
Introduction - On March 31, 2025, Judge Christopher Lopez of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas denied confirmation of the prepackaged Chapter 11 plan of Johnson & Johnson (“J&J”) affiliate Red...more
As noted in our last two client alerts, the issue as to who should be the watchdog to protect consumer personal data is coming to a head in the chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of 23andMe Holding Co and its affiliated debtors...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (the “Fifth Circuit”) ruled on December 31, 2024 that Serta Simmons Bedding’s (“SSB”) 2020 uptier exchange included a transaction that, contrary to the assertions of...more
On August 21, 2024, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas held that, while the debtor breached an agreement arising from an uptier transaction, the creditor was limited to a breach of contract claim and...more
On May 16, 2024, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas recommended that the district court largely deny cross motions for summary judgment in an action by the liquidating trust for Fresh Acquisitions,...more
On January 14, 2024, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas largely denied cross motions for summary judgment on aggrieved noteholders’ claims arising from a so-called “uptier” transaction. In 2019,...more
This paper explores the mechanisms by which companies have utilized corporate restructuring through divisive mergers in conjunction with the available protections and tools of the United States Bankruptcy Code to resolve mass...more
The fall of Enron Texas is the second largest US state (after Alaska). It is an economic engine in the US, fuelled primarily by the oil and gas industry. When Houstonbased Enron Corporation filed its Chapter 11 case in the...more
On August 3, 2023, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas found that the majority of the shares of stock of a reorganized debtor should be allocated to unsecured creditors, and not the secured creditors,...more
During a U.S. bankruptcy case, can a debtor pay something less than the full contract rate provided for in a contract entered into prior to the bankruptcy while still requiring the counterparty to fully perform its...more
On June 6, 2023, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas upheld an “uptier” transaction in which Serta Simmons, before it filed for bankruptcy, provided some of its existing lenders with new priming loans...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently approved injunctive relief as part of a strategy for settling mass tort claims through the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case of Bestwall LLC, an entity created by...more
On January 5, 2023, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (the “Fifth Circuit”) vacated a decision from the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division (the...more
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
After a break for the holidays, this is the third of an expected five-part series on fraudulent transfers. In my first blog, I laid out the basic statutory framework, as well as a described generally the difference between...more
This is the second of an expected five-part series on fraudulent transfers. In my first blog, I laid out the basic statutory framework, as well as described generally the difference between actual and constructively...more
...S&K Take: The big-ticket item in this week’s installment of What’s News. The Third Circuit is considering the viability of the Texas Two-Step strategy. This is the decision that everyone will have their eyes on, as it will...more
On June 3, 2022, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas refused to extend the “ponzi-scheme presumption” in connection with an actual intent fraudulent transfer claim because there was no actual ponzi...more
A Delaware bankruptcy court recently held that Texas’s “trust fund doctrine” remains applicable for companies that have not availed themselves of Texas’s formal dissolution process. Nonetheless, fiduciary claims by a...more
On May 11, 2021, Judge Harlin D. Hale, of the Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas (the “Court”) found that the bankruptcy cases of the National Rifle Association of America (“NRA”) and its subsidiary Sea Girt...more
In a much-anticipated decision issued on October 26, the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas awarded make-whole premiums and post-petition interest (i.e., interest accruing after the bankruptcy filing) to...more