Bankruptcy Blogs

J. Michael Booe has joined law firm Winston & Strawn LLP as a partner in the Charlotte, N.C., office. Mr. Booe, a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, focuses on corporate financing transactions as well as syndicated commercial and single lender transactions. He has experience representing clients in Chapter 11 cases and other insolvency matters. Mr. Booe earned his law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

I myself am a HMDA wonk, but one with a rather love-hate relationship to the numbers. I love what they reveal, but hate the headaches that come from wrestling with data.

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.

Exide Technologies Inc. and its creditors are vying for the right to launch a probe into suspected metal price-fixing, with an eye toward collecting damages if it turns out the battery-maker was victimized.

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Is it Time to Tighten Up? That is the question that some Fed officials apparently raised during the central bank's policy meeting last month. Some members showed support for raising interest rates. The Journal notes that, "The fact that the subject came up at all Â... shows how the central bank's policy debate is slowly and subtly evolving." The New York Times discusses how the Fed's minutes portend a further reduction in...