Bankruptcy Blogs

The Examiners: Experienced Professionals Come at a Price

02/02/15

Have Chapter 11 restructurings become so expensive that professionals are essentially pricing themselves out of business? 

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The Examiners: Increased Complexity Brings Increased Cost

02/02/15

Have Chapter 11 restructurings become so expensive that professionals are essentially pricing themselves out of business? 

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The Examiners: Bankruptcy’s Complexities Require Expertise

02/02/15

Have Chapter 11 restructurings become so expensive that professionals are essentially pricing themselves out of business? 

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The Examiners: Restructuring Practices Still Could Be Improved

02/02/15

Have Chapter 11 restructurings become so expensive that professionals are essentially pricing themselves out of business? 

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High Time to Revisit Bank Control Rules

02/02/15

Revising the current control rules could give banks access to more capital from private equity, hedge funds and other institutional investors.

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Thank You to Michelle Harner

02/02/15

Credit Slips thanks Michelle Harner for guest blogging. She shared her own personal views about reforms for chapter 11. Although Harner was here in her personal capacity and speaking only for herself, her role as the reporter for the American Bankruptcy Institute's Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11 gives her a valuable and informed perspective on the issues. Thank you, Michelle.

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The Daily Docket: Revel Creditors Reach Deal With Wells Fargo on Loan

02/02/15
Associated Press

Following 11th-hour negotiations, lawyers representing the Revel Casino Hotel’s bankruptcy lender and unsecured creditors unveiled a settlement on a vigorously contested $125 million financing

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In White-Collar Crime, Banks Are More Often Prey than Predator

02/02/15

Banks victimized by loan fraud, identity theft, embezzlement and other crimes often stand to benefit by actively cooperating and coordinating with federal authorities.

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Morning Scan: First Mariner CEO's Second, Covert Career; What's 'Culture'?

02/02/15

Wall Street Journal Edwin Hale Sr., the founder and former chief executive of First Mariner Bancorp in Baltimore, confessed that he covertly worked for the Central Intelligence Agency for about 10 years in the 1990s and 2000s. Hale made the confession in his recently published biography, "Hale Storm." The CIA used agents posing as employees of Hale's bank (the article doesn't specify whether they were employees of First Mariner, or of Bank of Baltimore, Hale's previousÂ...

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