News Topic: Bankruptcy Trends

Getty Images Federal bankruptcy watchdogs are once again patrolling in full force, restarting the consumer debtor audits that a tight budget forced them to suspend last year. ... Read full article

Creditors of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. will receive hundreds of millions of dollars from the estate of the bankrupt firm following a settlement with Freddie Mac. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal . ... Read full article

Creditors of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. will receive hundreds of millions of dollars from the estate of the bankrupt firm following a settlement with Freddie Mac. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal . ... Read full article

Getty Images While the number of corporate bankruptcies dwindled again in 2013, a deart ... Read full article

Getty Images While the number of corporate bankruptcies dwindled again in 2013, a deart ... Read full article

U.S. companies will continue defaulting near their current low rates, barring a major crisis overseas, a bankruptcy expert said in his 13th annual address to restructuring professionals on Monday. ... Read full article

U.S. companies will continue defaulting near their current low rates barring a major crisis overseas, a bankruptcy expert said in his 13th annual address to restructuring professionals on Monday. In his annual speech put on by the New York chapter of the ... Read full article

A Fortress Investment Group LLC affiliate won the bidding at Tuesday’s auction of the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway Ltd., which was involved in a deadly crash this past summer. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal ... Read full article

A Fortress Investment Group LLC affiliate won the bidding at Tuesday’s auction of the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway Ltd., which was involved in a deadly crash this past summer. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal ... Read full article

Attorneys working to settle litigation over a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak say they hope to finalize a tentative $100 million-plus deal and present it for court approval in the next two months. At a Friday afternoon hearing, attorney Michael ... Read full article

Attorneys working to settle litigation over a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak say they hope to finalize a tentative $100 million-plus deal and present it for court approval in the next two months. At a Friday afternoon hearing, attorney Michael ... Read full article

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Dish Network Corp.’s  proposed deal to buy LightSquared’s wireless spectrum assets is on the verge of falling apart, a lawyer for LightSquared’s lenders said in bankruptcy court Tuesday. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review via The Wall Street Journal . ... Read full article

Dish Network Corp.’s  proposed deal to buy LightSquared’s wireless spectrum assets is on the verge of falling apart, a lawyer for LightSquared’s lenders said in bankruptcy court Tuesday. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review via The Wall Street Journal . ... Read full article

It’s nearly impossible to cancel your student loan debt in bankruptcy. Fewer than 1,000 people  try each year . Those who do are required to file a lawsuit against their lenders and then convince a bankruptcy judge that they’re so poor there’s no hope of ... Read full article

Phil Falcone and LightSquared urged a bankruptcy judge to reject a plan to sell the company’s wireless spectrum assets to Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network Corp., a deal they say is inferior to LightSquared’s proposal to reorganize on its own. Read the Daily ... Read full article

It’s nearly impossible to cancel your student loan debt in bankruptcy. Fewer than 1,000 people  try each year . Those who do are required to file a lawsuit against their lenders and then convince a bankruptcy judge that they’re so poor there’s no hope of ... Read full article