19 Apr Nobody Does It Better . . . Than Government Regulators
Title II of the Dodd-Frank Act provides “the necessary authority to liquidate failing financial companies that pose a systemic risk...
Title II of the Dodd-Frank Act provides “the necessary authority to liquidate failing financial companies that pose a systemic risk...
When a municipality faces municipal distress, who ultimately picks up the tab? More importantly, who should pick up the tab? That’s...
During recent years, the global economy has seen significant growth in transactions which purport to be governed by classic Islamic...
Jones Day's Charles Oellerman and Mark Douglas have just issued The Year in Bankruptcy: 2010. It is a (relatively) concise, thorough...
Ever since the first corporate reorganizations in the US, business owners have been looking for ways to retain ownership of...
Readers of this blog will know that a number of jurisdictions around the world have remodeled their insolvency schemes based...
The distribution scheme embodied in federal bankruptcy law serves several important functions. In Chapter 7, the detailed statutory distribution scheme...
Last month, this blog featured a preliminary post on Ahcom Ltd. v. Smeding (9th Cir. Oct. 21, 2010, Docket No. 09-16020),...
It is perhaps stating the obvious that Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code offers a well-known and very flexible...
The esoteric world of credit default swaps and other derivative securities often appears far removed from the everyday practice of...