Bankruptcy Blogs

Do You Know the Way to Bankruptcy Court?

03/26/13
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Dionne Warwick

Say a little prayer for Dionne Warwick…and her bank account.

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Who Do You Want to Believe -- Equifax or the U.S. Census?

03/25/13

The Chicago Tribune is running a Reuters story describing a study from Equifax that student loan write-offs totaled $3 billion in the first quarter of 2013. It's an impressive study. According to the story, "Equifax analyzes data from more than 500 million consumers to track financial trends."

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Breaking Up Megabanks: The Lesser Evil

03/25/13

Our best chance to counter the government policies that caused the crisis (and continue to endanger the banking system) is, paradoxically, another distasteful state intrusion.

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Anti-Laundering Rulemakers Could Learn from the Mall Cop

03/25/13

For many small and midsize banks, AML is all about compliance and getting through an examination without too many bruises. The means overshadow the ends.

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Did James Bond File Bankruptcy in Texas?

03/25/13

Bankruptcy is not a good place to hide out if you are a super-spy.  Your (financial) life is an open book and your (expensive) toys end up on the auction block.

So did James Bond try to evade his enemies by filing bankruptcy in Dallas back in June, 2012?  The clues are tantalizing in a Dallas Chapter 7 case.

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DeX Games - SuperMedia and Dex One File Simultaneous Chapter 11 Cases to Effect Merger

03/25/13

Distressed m&a is the “new normal” in Chapter 11 cases, as noted here and elsewhere. Two large media marketing and advertising companies, SuperMedia and

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Cypriot Bailout Almost as Good as Greece's

03/25/13

Receiving Wide Coverage ...

Cyprus Bailout: Remember that time back in college when your professor told you your score on the final exam would be the entirety of your grade, so you sort of blew off those little quizzes he gave throughout the semester? And how you ended up panicking a few days before the test, staying up all night on coffee or something stronger, and miraculously pulled off a B-minus? ...

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The Daily Docket: Ex-Howrey Partners Look to Settlement Talks

03/25/13

Some former partners of Howrey LLP have agreed to spend the next several months in settlement talks to avoid litigation over the defunct law firm’s 2011 collapse. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal.

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Better Board Leadership Needed to Save Banking's Reputation

03/25/13

Directors should recognize that appropriate professional behavior reinforced by a sense of belonging to a quality franchise constitutes a decisive competitive advantage.

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DeX Games – SuperMedia and Dex One File Simultaneous Chapter 11 Cases to Effect Merger

03/25/13

Distressed m&a is the “new normal” in Chapter 11 cases, as noted here and elsewhere. Two large media marketing and advertising companies, SuperMedia and Dex One, took the “new normal” to new extremes l

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