Large Cap
-
October 18, 2024
Bally Sports Owner Gets OK For FanDuel Rebrand
Bally Sports Networks will be rebranded as FanDuel Sports Networks after a Texas bankruptcy judge approved an agreement between Diamond Sports Group and the betting platform.
-
October 18, 2024
More Than Just Superheroes: Marvel Inked Ch. 11 Legacy
The nearly three-decade-old bankruptcy and reorganization of comic book giant Marvel produced a company that has become a major force in Hollywood, but it also led to an enduring legal precedent on conflict-of-interest standards for bankruptcy professionals that is still cited today.
-
October 18, 2024
SunPower Corp. Gets OK For Chapter 11 Plan
A Delaware bankruptcy judge Friday approved residential solar technology company SunPower Corp.'s plans to distribute the proceeds of its asset sales to the creditors in its Chapter 11 case after hearing all objections had been resolved or put off.
-
October 18, 2024
Judge Won't Delay Pitney Bowes Spinoff's Ch. 11 Timeline
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Friday said he will not push back a Chapter 11 plan confirmation for the former e-commerce unit of shipping group Pitney Bowes in order to buy the creditors' committee more time for contract analysis, keeping a mid-November hearing in place.
-
October 18, 2024
Judge Denies SmileDirect Trustee's Litigation Funding Ask
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Friday denied a request from the Chapter 7 trustee overseeing SmileDirectClub's liquidation to fund litigation against company insiders by giving the trustee's special litigation attorneys liens on any money they recover, saying a debtor-in-possession funding order precluded such an arrangement.
-
October 18, 2024
Sweden's Intrum Plans To File For Bankruptcy In The US
Swedish debt collector Intrum said Friday that it plans to file for Chapter 11 protection in the U.S. along with a reorganization in its home country with eyes set on refinancing $4.9 billion in debt with a lock-up agreement with creditors.
-
October 17, 2024
Atty's 'Groundhog Day' Motion Trims Ex-Girardi Client's Suit
A California state judge on Thursday trimmed a family's $1.8 million malpractice lawsuit against an attorney that represented it in recovering millions lost in Girardi Keese's embezzlement scandal, calling a bid to nix one of the suit's claims a "Groundhog Day" motion because she already granted a similar one from the attorney's firm.
-
October 17, 2024
Meet The Skadden Attorneys Behind True Value's Ch. 11
Hardware store supplier True Value Co., limping from the vicissitudes of the COVID-19 pandemic and an increasingly short leash from lenders, has hired lawyers from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP to help see it through Chapter 11.
-
October 17, 2024
Colorado Judges Doubt Giuliani Shielded For 2020 Lies
Colorado appellate judges appeared skeptical Thursday of Rudy Giuliani's bid to escape a defamation lawsuit by a former executive for Dominion Voting Systems, noting that they already found Giuliani's statements weren't protected in a related appeal.
-
October 17, 2024
FTX Insider Cites 'Limited' Fraud Role In Bid To Avoid Prison
The former head of engineering at FTX asked a Manhattan federal judge to spare him prison time in light of his cooperation with prosecutors and what he said was a relatively "limited" role in the crypto exchange's billion-dollar fraud.
-
October 17, 2024
A&O Shearman Taps Governance Veteran To Co-Lead Practice
A&O Shearman said Thursday that it has tapped a longtime partner to co-head the firm's compensation, employment, pensions and governance practice, bringing it under the joint leadership of alum from each of its two legacy firms after the merger between New York-based Shearman & Sterling and London-based legacy firm Allen & Overy became official last May.
-
October 17, 2024
Boy Scouts Ch. 11 Runs Up $295M Professional Fee Bill In Q3
Boy Scouts of America has filed a post-confirmation report in its Chapter 11 case, reporting it has incurred $295 million in professional fees in the third quarter ending Sept. 30.
-
October 16, 2024
True Value Hammered By Economy, Lenders' Tight Screws
The pull-forward effect of the COVID-19 pandemic claimed another victim when hardware wholesaler True Value Company LLC filed for bankruptcy on Monday, succumbing to the lull in demand for new drills, drywall and drains now that Americans have finished the home improvement projects that consumed them in the early days of that time.
-
October 16, 2024
Profs Urge 3rd Circ. To Rethink Reopening Shipbuilder Ch. 11
A group of law professors have asked the Third Circuit to grant shipbuilder Bath Iron Works' request for a rehearing on its bid to reopen the Chapter 11 case of its former affiliate in order to allocate responsibility for a number of environmental remediation costs, saying it is of "central importance" a bankruptcy court and not a civil court adjudicate the issue.
-
October 16, 2024
True Value Strikes Bridge Deal To Fund Ch. 11 Case With Cash
Hardware store supplier True Value Co. is "laser focused" on closing a $153 million sale, attorneys for the company Wednesday told a Delaware bankruptcy judge who agreed to approve a two-week deal the debtor struck with a lender to use cash on hand to fund the Chapter 11 case.
-
October 16, 2024
Bally Sports Owner Seeks Court Approval Of FanDuel Rebrand
The parent company of Bally Sports-branded regional sports networks has asked a Texas bankruptcy judge for permission to change naming rights partners, revealing it has a short-term deal in which fantasy sports and betting platform FanDuel would take over the sponsorship agreement.
-
October 16, 2024
Catching Up With New Bankruptcy Case Action
Several companies including True Value, Accuride and Jordan Health filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy over the past week, citing financial strains from inflation, supply-chain issues and market changes.
-
October 16, 2024
Brazilian Electricity Biz Seeks US Ch. 15 Recognition
Light SA, parent to a major Brazilian electrical utility, has asked a Texas bankruptcy judge to grant U.S. recognition of its foreign insolvency proceedings, saying a Brazilian court had approved a restructuring plan for the company to deal with roughly $2 billion in debt that has high creditor support.
-
October 16, 2024
Ex-Judge Aims To Shield Bank Records In Romance Probe
A former U.S. bankruptcy judge is hoping to sink a subpoena from the U.S. Trustee's Office for his banking records in connection with its inquiry into his concealed romantic relationship with a former Jackson Walker LLP partner who appeared before him in a number of cases.
-
October 16, 2024
Big Lots Protections For $760M Bid Draw US Trustee Protest
The U.S. Department of Justice's bankruptcy watchdog has objected to Big Lots' proposed protections for the prospective buyer of the bankrupt retailer's assets, saying a break-up fee and expense repayments aren't justified as part of the $760 million deal.
-
October 16, 2024
Jenner & Block Grows Restructuring Team In NYC, Chicago
Jenner & Block LLP announced Wednesday an expansion of its bankruptcy and restructuring practice in New York and Chicago with the addition of two partners from Mayer Brown LLP, including a former co-leader of that firm's restructuring group in New York.
-
October 15, 2024
Exec's $77M WeWork Offer Was Stupid, Not Fraud, Jury Told
Counsel for the former CEO of real estate investment firm Arciterra told a Manhattan federal jury Tuesday his client was a fool for making what prosecutors described as a fake $77 million tender offer for a controlling stake in WeWork before its bankruptcy, but he wasn't trying to falsely pump up the coworking company's stock price.
-
October 15, 2024
J&J Stays In Texas, True Value Files, Bally Sports Docs OK'd
The latest bankruptcy case of a Johnson & Johnson talc unit survived a motion to transfer the proceedings to New Jersey, decades-old hardware store chain True Value commenced a Chapter 11 case and the update plan disclosure statement for the parent of Bally Sports regional sports networks were approved by a Texas judge. This is the week in bankruptcy.
-
October 15, 2024
Meet The Attorneys Behind Wheel-Maker Accuride's Ch. 11
Wheel manufacturer Accuride Corp., which blamed supply-chain snarls and a rise in the cost of parts for its entry into Chapter 11 on Oct. 9, is being guided through the bankruptcy process by attorneys from Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP.
-
October 15, 2024
Sacklers Say Opioid Claims Can't Undo Purdue Transfers
The family that owns bankrupt drugmaker Purdue Pharma LP is challenging an effort by creditors to claw back billions of dollars transferred by the company to Sackler trusts, telling a New York federal judge that opioid claims fail and can't be used to prove that Purdue made the distributions knowing it was insolvent.