News Topic: Bankruptcy Trends

A federal appeals court has reversed a lower court decision involving the bankruptcy of Florida home builder Tousa Inc. in a closely watched court case that could have far-reaching implications for lenders of struggling companies and their creditors. Read ... Read full article

Las Vegas developer Bill Plise is trying to shake off some $500 million worth of personal debts in bankruptcy, mostly guarantees of bank loans linked to a bid to develop City Crossing, a $2 billion casualty of the recession. Read the Daily Bankruptcy ... Read full article

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. lashed out at Sam Zell's deal with banks to extend Zell's option to buy their remaining stake in Archstone. ... Read full article

The Los Angeles Dodgers said Tuesday the $2 billion sale of the team and stadium to an investment group headed by Earvin “Magic” Johnson is complete. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

A judge on Monday said Eastman Kodak Co. could pay millions of dollars in bonuses to several hundred employees to keep them happy and at the company, overruling an objection by the Justice Department’s bankruptcy-watchdog unit. Read the Daily Bankruptcy ... Read full article

In the race to open offices throughout the globe and lure rainmakers to their ranks, some law firms willingly took on debt they expected to have no trouble paying—a once-safe bet that is now backfiring. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The ... Read full article

The U.S. Supreme Court began the process of weighing in on one of the hottest issues in corporate bankruptcy Monday, casting harsh eyes on a hotel owner’s attempt to block its secured lender from using debt as currency in a bankruptcy auction. Read the ... Read full article

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Getty Images In the era of the iPhone, businesses that are struggling to survive turn to a bankruptcy process that was invented during the time of typewriters. ... Read full article

Hostess Brands Inc. is defending its bid to shed its pension plans and cut back on benefits for its unionized employees, saying it’s the only way for the company to survive its current trip through bankruptcy. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here ... Read full article

A legal fight between Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. over claims that the bank illegally siphoned billions of dollars from Lehman in the weeks before its collapse illustrates what happens when the “shadow” banking system ... Read full article

A municipal bond insurer that guaranteed sewer debt issued by Jefferson County, Ala., is accusing J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. of unfairly using the county’s bankruptcy case to block the progress of the bond insurer’s own fight against the bank in New York ... Read full article

A judge on Wednesday said Eastman Kodak Co. could continue borrowing on its $950 million bankruptcy loan from Citigroup Inc., after satisfying several parties’ concerns with it. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

Saab Cars North America said it will file for Chapter 11 protection in Michigan, a move that comes a little more than a week after some of its dealerships sought to push the Swedish auto maker’s U.S. unit into bankruptcy proceedings in Delaware. Read the ... Read full article

Global Aviation Holdings Inc., which says it is the largest commercial provider of airlift transport services for the U.S. military, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Sunday. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

A judge Thursday cleared Hostess Brands Inc. to borrow the entirety of its $75 million bankruptcy loan, siding with the maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread over protests from unsecured creditors who warned the financing deal would drive the company toward ... Read full article

Empowered by a recent court ruling, Jefferson County, Ala., leaders are planning to wield their bankruptcy case privileges to squeeze sewer system bondholders who—for nearly half a decade—have squeezed them. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is asking a bankruptcy judge to slash at least $35 billion from what some of Wall Street’s biggest banks claim they are still owed from the investment bank over losses tied to residential mortgage loans that Lehman packaged ... Read full article