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Restructuring Plans
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Minding Your Business
An Offer You Can’t Refuse: Are Deathtraps a Tool for Fostering Settlements, or a Method of Coercion?
Accept an unpalatable offer, or reject it and risk getting much less (or even nothing)? This is the choice stakeholders in chapter 11 bankruptcies increasingly face as a result of…
South Florida Trial Practice
50 Cent Bankruptcy Success Story
By Heather Ries
The results are in! As I mentioned in my May 25th blog post, Curtis James Jackson III, better known as rapper 50 Cent (“Jackson”) was scheduled for his bankruptcy confirmation hearing yesterday…
Bankruptcy Law Insights
Energy Future Holdings Chapter 11 Case – The Largest Game Ever of Texas Hold’em?
By Ben Feder
The chapter 11 case of Energy Future Holdings (“EFH” or “Debtors”) roared back to life this month. Certain key conditions for the plan of reorganization approved last December (the “First…
South Florida Trial Practice
Will the Rain Give Way to Sunny Days for 50 Cent?
By Heather Ries
Since my February post, Curtis James Jackson III, better known as rapper 50 Cent (“Jackson”), objected to the appointment of an examiner, along with Sleek Audio, LLC, Suntrust Bank and…
Sixth Circuit Appellate Blog
Plan Not In “Good Faith” When Impairment of Class’s Interests Is Contrived
Under the Bankruptcy Code, a reorganization plan may be approved if (1) proposed in “good faith” under § 1129(a)(3), and (2) accepted by at least one class of creditors whose…
Bankruptcy Law Insights
Energy Future Holdings – Kicking a Very Large Can Down the Road
By Ben Feder
Energy Future Holdings (“EFH” or “Debtors”) has cleared all of the preliminary hurdles in its path as it moves towards the confirmation of its plan of reorganization (the “Plan”). Last…
Bankruptcy Law Insights
Energy Future Holdings – Another Major Success for Chapter 11 Mediation?
By Ben Feder
Mediation has become an invaluable tool in large chapter 11 cases. Traditionally viewed as a means for resolving discrete disputes between a debtor’s estate and an adversary party, in recent…
South Florida Trial Practice
50 Cent Proposes Bankruptcy Professionals
By Heather Ries
This week, Curtis James Jackson, III ("50 Cent" or "Debtor") sought to employ several professionals to assist him with his chapter 11 bankruptcy. The Debtor is seeking to employ two firms…
La Revue
Le juge judiciaire incompétent pour suspendre un projet de réorganisation et de PSE
TGI Nanterre 10 septembre 2014, n° 14/02021, CGT EADS Alstom Toulouse c/Airbus Defence & Space SAS Dans un jugement du 10 septembre 2014, le TGI de Nanterre saisi en référé…
In Solvency
Third Circuit Rules that Failure to Disclose Third-Party Release Proves Fatal
In the recent Third Circuit decision of In re Lower Bucks Hospital, No. 13-1311 (3d Cir. July 3, 2014), the Third Circuit upheld the ruling of the Bankruptcy Court for the…