Bankruptcy

  • October 29, 2024

    MVP: Latham's George Davis

    George Davis, global chair of Latham & Watkins LLP's restructuring and special situations practice, negotiated successful prepackaged Chapter 11 plans for Joann Inc. and Audacy and helped Mallinckrodt navigate two bankruptcy cases tied to opioid litigation, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Bankruptcy MVPs.

  • October 29, 2024

    PE-Owned Implant Maker Plagued By Lawsuits Hits Ch. 11

    Joint implant maker Exactech Inc. on Tuesday filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware bankruptcy court with an offer from its lenders to take over the company, as a wave of lawsuits tied to product recalls weighs on the private equity-owned firm.

  • October 28, 2024

    Judge Hopes To Avoid Vote Issue Repeat In Talc Ch. 11 Plan

    A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Monday told a pair of talc producers that the proposed creditor voting procedures on their joint Chapter 11 plans will need some work to avoid a repeat of the voting problems that derailed a previous attempt to settle asbestos injury claims.

  • October 28, 2024

    Creditors Get Ponzi Finding In Wash. Bankruptcy Trial

    A Washington state bankruptcy judge has found that real estate investment firm iCap Enterprises Inc. had operated as a Ponzi scheme, opening up the door for creditors to bring lawsuits and deduct some part of the losses from their taxes, attorneys for the official committee of iCap's unsecured creditors said Monday.

  • October 28, 2024

    Yellow Corp. Says Failing Biz Excuses WARN Act Duty

    Bankrupt trucking firm Yellow Corp. told a Delaware judge Monday that it should get early wins in suits brought by laid off employees, saying that because the company had ceased most business operations, it was excused from notification obligations surrounding the firing of thousands of workers.

  • October 28, 2024

    NJ Diocese Gets Insurer's Abuse Coverage Suit Tossed

    A New Jersey federal court tossed an insurer's suit seeking to escape coverage for more than 200 sexual abuse lawsuits brought against the Catholic Diocese of Trenton, saying Monday the suit "relies on a strictly hypothetical controversy that may never occur."

  • October 28, 2024

    NY Firm Sued Over Botched $5M Art Collector Ch. 7 Dispute

    A family enmeshed in New York's art world is suing their former attorneys in relation to a dismissed bankruptcy proceeding with an art collector over a breach of contract, alleging the attorneys' incompetence lost them $5 million when they moved the case from state court to a Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing.

  • October 28, 2024

    Attys Seek $48M Fees For Hooking $152M In Tuna Fixing Deals

    Lawyers for a class of consumers that sued three of the largest tuna producers accusing them of conspiring to fix tinned fish prices asked a California federal court to approve nearly $50 million in legal costs after a settlement this summer ended nearly nine years of multidistrict litigation.

  • October 28, 2024

    Mich. Firm Can't Get More Fees From Nassar Suits, Jury Finds

    A Michigan federal jury said Monday a personal injury firm already got what it was owed as local counsel for survivors of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar's abuse, rejecting the firm's claims against a Colorado firm for another $500,000.

  • October 28, 2024

    Linklaters Adds 4 A&O Shearman Finance Partners In NY

    Linklaters LLP announced Monday the addition of four partners from the recently merged Allen Overy Shearman Sterling to the firm's finance division, deepening its U.S. capital markets and restructuring offerings in New York.

  • October 28, 2024

    MVP: Brown Rudnick's Jeff Jonas

    Jeff Jonas of Brown Rudnick LLP's bankruptcy practice helped spearhead the successful dismissals of Johnson & Johnson's first two bankruptcies tied to talc injury claims and the bankruptcy of a 3M subsidiary facing injury claims over military earplugs, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Bankruptcy MVPs.

  • October 25, 2024

    FTX Reaches $228M Deal With Crypto Co. Bybit

    The FTX bankruptcy estate reached a deal worth about $228 million to resolve its lawsuit against cryptocurrency exchange Bybit and the firm's investment arm, Mirana Corp., that alleged they unfairly jumped the line to withdraw funds during FTX's meltdown in late 2022 and held the estate's own funds hostage.

  • October 25, 2024

    Glocal, UpHealth May Settle $115M Award Feud

    Indian healthcare services platform Glocal and bankrupt digital health services company UpHealth may be on the verge of resolving their bitter dispute over an ill-fated merger that resulted in a $115 million arbitral award, Glocal has informed an Illinois federal court in a recent request to stay enforcement proceedings. 

  • October 25, 2024

    Spirit Airlines Eyes $80M In Cost Cuts Amid New Deal Rumor

    Spirit Airlines will implement layoffs as part of a plan to cut roughly $80 million in costs and has agreed to sell 23 Airbus aircraft to GA Telesis for about $519 million, disclosing the measures as the company is said to be in renewed talks to potentially sell itself to Frontier Airlines. 

  • October 25, 2024

    Judge Wants More Clarity About Alex Jones Ch. 7 Asset Sales

    A Texas bankruptcy judge deferred ruling on a motion from the Chapter 7 trustee in the bankruptcy of right-wing media fabulist Alex Jones to conduct sales of certain of the estate's assets, saying he wants to know whether the parties to the case anticipate future litigation on the trustee's ability to sell the assets.

  • October 25, 2024

    Big Lots Inc. Gets OK For Oct. 30 Ch. 11 Asset Auction

    A Delaware bankruptcy judge Friday approved discount retailer Big Lots Inc.'s plans to put itself on the block next week after hearing the provider of the baseline bid for the sale had secured the financing for its $760 million offer.

  • October 25, 2024

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    This past week in London has seen the Competition and Markets Authority take action against a mattress retailer after it was caught pressuring its customers with misleading discounts, Lenovo and Motorola target ZTE Corporation with a patents claim, Lloyds Bank hit by another claim relating to the collapse of Arena Television and U.K. tax authority HMRC sued by the director of an electronics company that evaded millions of pounds in VAT. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

  • October 25, 2024

    Ex-Judge Can't Hide Bank Records In Romance Cash Probe

    A Texas bankruptcy court on Friday shot down a former judge's bid to shield his banking records from a U.S. Trustee's Office inquiry into his concealed romantic relationship with a former Jackson Walker LLP partner, giving Bank of America NA one week to provide six years of the former judge's bank statements.

  • October 25, 2024

    Airline Holding Co. Nabs $1.25B Refinancing For GOL Ch. 11

    Abra Group Limited, the holding company for Avianca and GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes airlines, announced it has closed $1.25 billion in refinancing transactions that will help resolve the financial defaults related to GOL's Chapter 11 filing earlier this year.

  • October 24, 2024

    American Tire Gets Interim OK For $250M Ch. 11 Loan

    Tire and wheel seller American Tire Distributors Inc. received interim approval Thursday from a Delaware bankruptcy judge to tap a $250 million new-money debtor-in-possession loan provided by its prepetition lenders.

  • October 24, 2024

    Alex Jones Atty Laments Sharing Sandy Hook Families' Info

    The lead attorney in conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Sandy Hook Elementary School defamation trial in Connecticut acknowledged Thursday that he "erred" when he allowed a hard drive containing the plaintiffs' confidential records to be transmitted to other attorneys, an act that led to ongoing disciplinary proceedings that threaten his law license.

  • October 24, 2024

    ConvergeOne Can't Ax Snubbed Creditors' Ch. 11 Plan Appeal

    A Texas federal judge said he wouldn't toss an appeal by a group of secured creditors who say they were improperly iced out of a new equity offering pool for ConvergeOne, writing that the group's challenge wouldn't unravel the reorganized information technology services company's confirmed Chapter 11 plan or harm third parties.

  • October 24, 2024

    Giuliani Admissions Sink Bid To Shield Fla. Condo, Court Told

    Two former Georgia poll workers seeking to collect a $148 million defamation judgment against disgraced ex-lawyer Rudy Giuliani argued this week that the former New York City mayor has admitted he was not living in his luxury Florida condo around the time they filed a lien on it, and thus cannot prevent a sale of the property.

  • October 24, 2024

    Feds Want Leniency For Key Witness At Bankman-Fried Trial

    Prosecutors asked a Manhattan federal judge for leniency when sentencing a former FTX executive who they said provided "substantial" assistance and testimony in the successful prosecution of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange's founder Sam Bankman-Fried.

  • October 24, 2024

    Conn. Firm Botched €1.6M Settlement For UK Client, Suit Says

    Connecticut firm Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP is responsible for the loss of €1.6 million ($1.7 million) a U.K. client paid toward a failed global bankruptcy settlement agreement, according to a legal malpractice suit filed in Connecticut state court.

Expert Analysis

  • Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession

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    About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

  • Opinion

    AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys

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    The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.

  • Series

    Round-Canopy Parachuting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Similar to the practice of law, jumping from an in-flight airplane with nothing but training and a few yards of parachute silk is a demanding and stressful endeavor, and the experience has bolstered my legal practice by enhancing my focus, teamwork skills and sense of perspective, says Thomas Salerno at Stinson.

  • Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners

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    Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

  • Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics

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    Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.

  • It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers

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    Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional “trusted adviser” paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient — they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.

  • Expect More Restaurant Ch. 11s As COVID Debt Comes Due

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    The wave of restaurant bankruptcies is likely to continue in the coming months as companies face the looming repayment of COVID-19 pandemic-era government loans, an uncertain economy and increased interest rates, says Isaac Marcushamer at DGIM Law.

  • Mitigating Risk In Net Asset Value Facility Bankruptcies

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    In times of economic turbulence, parties to bankruptcy proceedings that involve net asset value facilities can mitigate risk by understanding the purpose of the automatic stay, complications it can create for NAV facility lenders and options for relief, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.

  • Tax Traps In Acquisitions Of Financially Distressed Targets

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    Parties to the acquisition of an insolvent or bankrupt company face myriad tax considerations, including limitations on using the distressed company's tax benefits, cancellation of indebtedness income, tax lien issues and potential tax reorganizations.

  • 7 Steps To Take Before Responding To Claim Objections

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    When counsel is notified of an objection to the proof of claim in a bankruptcy case, they should contact the client and begin discussing the cost and benefit of responding.

  • Tips For Handling Single Asset Real Estate Bankruptcy Cases

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    Bankruptcy counsel should consider several strategies when representing either a debtor or lender in single asset real estate debtor Chapter 11 cases, which generally arise when a debtor is forced to file for relief to stop an impending foreclosure sale.

  • How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations

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    Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.

  • Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles

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    Volunteering and nonprofit board service are complementary to, but distinct from, traditional pro bono work, and taking on these community leadership roles can produce dividends for lawyers, their firms and the nonprofit causes they support, says Katie Beacham at Kilpatrick.

  • Ch. 11 Ruling Shows Early Attempt To Tackle Purdue Fallout

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    A Delaware bankruptcy court’s recent ruling in Parlement Technologies’ Chapter 11 case, which denied a bid by Parler’s former owner to extend its bankruptcy stay to nondebtors, illustrates early efforts to grapple with the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Purdue Pharma for a recurring bankruptcy issue, say Daniel Lowenthal and Jonah Wacholder at Patterson Belknap.

  • 9 Liability Management Tips As Debt Maturity Cliff Looms

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    As the debt maturity cliff swiftly approaches in this challenging environment, attorneys at Winston & Strawn highlight the top considerations for boards of directors and finance professionals to think about when structuring and executing liability management transactions, including reviewing capital structure, evaluating debt covenants, and more.

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