News Topic: Chapter 11

By: Kathleen Mullins St. John’s Law Student American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review Staff   ... Read full article

 By: Brett Joseph St. John’s Law Student American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review Staff   ... Read full article

By: Brendan A. Bertoli St. John’s Law Student American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review Staff   ... Read full article

The Small Business Entrepreneur:  He employes half of all private sector employees, pays 44 percent of total U.S. private payroll, and has generated 65 percent of net new jobs over the past 17 years. ... Read full article

Large law firm failures typically produce lengthy and litigious bankruptcy cases . A frustrated lawyer in one such case succinctly described the essential problem: “the assets walk, talk and, worst of all, have their own counsel.” To the inherent tensions ... Read full article

In two bankruptcy appeals decided this summer, the Supreme Court faithfully followed congressional intent in one case, while finding that the language used by Congress did not quite do the job in the other.    In RadLAX Gateway Hotel, LLC v. Amalgamated ... Read full article

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The chapter 11 case of mortgage lender and servicer Residential Capital, LLC (“ResCap”) is fascinating on a number of levels. Its parent company, Ally Financial, Inc. ... Read full article

On May 29, 2012, only a little more than a month after the April 23, 2012 oral argument in the case , the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in RadLAX Gateway Hotel, LLC, et al. v. ... Read full article

When a company is facing financial distress, the question often comes up whether creditors can "force" the company into bankruptcy. Although the answer is more complicated than it may seem, this post aims to sort out what being "forced into ... Read full article

By: Tianja Samuel St. John’s Law Student American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review Staff  ... Read full article

By: Matthew W. Silverman St. John’s Law Student American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review Staff ... Read full article

By: Piergiorgio Maselli St. John's Law Student American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review  Staff ... Read full article

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  By: Eric Small St. John’s Law Student American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review Staff   ... Read full article

By:  Shlomo Lazar St. John’s Law Student American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review Staff ... Read full article

The Winter 2012 edition of the Absolute Priority newsletter, published by the Bankruptcy & Restructuring  group at Cooley LLP , of which I am a member, has recently been released. The newsletter gives updates on current developments and trends in the ... Read full article

By: Brian P. King St. John’s Law Student American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review Staff     ... Read full article