On November 8th, Fortune reported on the sudden implosion of FTX, the second biggest crypto exchange. The value of FTX’s proprietary token — FTT — started dropping precipitously this week as various news reports came out about it and more
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On November 8th, Fortune reported on the sudden implosion of FTX, the second biggest crypto exchange. The value of FTX’s proprietary token — FTT — started dropping precipitously this week as various news reports came out about it and more…
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In a recent article published by Law360, Mayer Brown’s Sean Scott, Aaron Gavant and Lisa Holl Chang break down recent decisions by the Fifth and Ninth Circuits relating to whether, in solvent debtor cases, unsecured creditors are entitled to postpetition…
On October 19th, the Wall Street Journal reported that the electric vehicle startup Mullen Automotive Inc., gained court approval to buy an Indiana manufacturing plant and assets from Electric Last Mile Solutions for $92 million. Such deal, which boosted Mullen’s…
On October 12th, Bloomberg reported that Alex Jones will join his bankrupt media production company, Free Speech Systems, in a court-supervised settlement with the families of the Sandy Hook school shooting victims. Specifically, Jones’ media company had filed a chapter…
Reuters reports that the markets in the US have faced their third straight quarterly decline, the longest period of decline for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq indices since 2008. This comes amid a period of rising interest rates and persistently…
CNN reports on the Federal Reserve’s decision to raise its target interest rate by an additional 75 basis points to a range of 3.00% to 3.25% in an effort to combat persistent inflation in the US. This is the fifth…
Reporting from Reuters indicates that the German government plans to relax certain corporate insolvency rules in response to rising energy costs so that companies with financially sound business plans can avoid being required to file for protection under Germany’s insolvency…
Bed Bath & Beyond announced a series of measures to address declining sale performance, as announced by press release and reported by Yahoo! Finance. The company has received commitments for $500 million in additional financing. It also plans to…
Judge David Jones in the Southern District of New York has rejected a request for an official committee of equity holders in Revlon’s chapter 11 proceedings, as reported by Reuters. Debtor’s counsel argued that the equity holders “cannot possibly”…