Federal Bankruptcy Rules Revisions – Analysis and Comment
Image via Wikipedia The Insolvency Law Committee for the California State Bar's Business Law Section has...
Image via Wikipedia The Insolvency Law Committee for the California State Bar's Business Law Section has...
South Bay Law Firm will be back posting in 2011. In the meantime, have a safe...
The distribution scheme embodied in federal bankruptcy law serves several important functions. In Chapter 7,...
One of the historical attractions of the Bankruptcy Code as a vehicle for restructuring is...
Last month, this blog featured a preliminary post on Ahcom Ltd. v. Smeding (9th Cir. Oct....
About a month ago, the Ninth Circuit clarified and restated the ability of individual creditors...
Back in May, this blog featured a post on some preliminary research addressing the idea of...
Late last month, the 9th Circuit Bankrpuptcy Appellate Panel clarified earlier precedent and held that...
The American Bar Association Section of Business Law provided comments last week to the Senate...
Whenever a troubled business seeks bankruptcy protection, unsecured creditors are often left scrambling to find...
In a well-known quote, Depression-era author Thurmond Arnold once described the inside of a corporate...
Most readers of this blog are aware that, under the Bankruptcy Code, a Chapter 11...
Image via Wikipedia In April, this blog highlighted research done by Seton Hall's Stephen Lubben and...
JSC BTA Bank (BTA), one of Khazakstan’s largest banks, sought restructuring under the guidance of...
Last week's post discussed public-market data as the benchmark for solvency in assessing fraudulent transfers. This...
Credit Default Swaps - those largely unregulated "side bets" over the likelihood of specific companies defaulting...
The advent of the information age has given rise to economies built not on steel,...
Continued global economic uncertainty and an impending 3d quarter slow-down in the US have translated...
From the 9th Circuit last week, a decision providing creditors and their representatives with a potentially...
As the economy lurches forward into an uncertain back half of 2010, the DIP lending...
In a globalized business environment, it should be no surprise that some of the more...
A couple of prior posts on this blog (here and here) have explored the economic...
A recent post over the July 4 holiday weekend offered a "30,000 foot view" of...
Last weekend’s July 4 holiday afforded members of the US business and restructuring community an...
What's it worth to learn from prior mistakes or misdeeds? For interested parties in most large Chapter...
It is perhaps stating the obvious that Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code offers...
The Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has...
From the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, a recent decision regarding the curious (and well-aged)...
Practitioners and business people who have toiled in and around US-based restructuring work are well-acquainted...
The esoteric world of credit default swaps and other derivative securities often appears far removed...
Leveraged buy-outs (LBO's) are a time-honored means of financing the acquisition of companies. They tend...
A recent post by University of Illinois' Professor Bob Lawless over at the always-stimulating "Credit...
Two prior posts on this blog (here and here) have traced the progress of an...
International readers of this blog - and those in the US who practice internationally -...
Many readers of this blog will be well aware that "venue shopping" - usually to...
A great deal of scholarly ink has been spilled over last year's well-publicized sales of...
Many readers of this blog understand the importance of asset and enterprise valuation at a...
A number of advanced commercial jurisdictions – such as the US, the UK, Germany, and...
In light of the tumultuous economic events of 2008 and 2009, a number of proposals...
JSC BTA Bank – A recent post appearing here discussed JSC BTA Bank (BTA)’s petition...