News Topic: fees

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

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

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

It’s a new year, and The Examiners are back and are talking about the always-contentious issue of bankruptcy fees. ... Read full article

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The new Apple Watch is pictured during an Apple event at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts in Cupertino, Calif., in this Sept. ... Read full article

Getty Images Experts who want to fix the nation’s bankruptcy laws so that more struggling companies survive kept an important question in mind during their two-year project on reform: What’s the point of fixin ... Read full article

While restructuring professionals have proposed some interesting changes to the bankruptcy code , it’s also striking what their 370-page report leaves out. Here are some hot topics in the bankruptcy world that  wouldn’t  be affected: Distressed-Debt ... Read full article

The American Bankruptcy Institute unveiled its long-awaited Chapter 11 reforms Monday morning, which aim to help struggling businesses but also propose to take away perks for lenders who extend bankruptcy loans and to remove protections for some investors ... Read full article

Gary Cameron/Reuters Lawyers, pay attention—correcting a mistake in bankruptcy papers is going to cost you pretty soon. ... Read full article

The professionals working on the long-running U.S. bankruptcy case of defunct telecommunications company Nortel  raked in another $36 million this week. ... Read full article

Next week in bankruptcy, MF Global Inc. will ask a bankruptcy judge to authorize a $295 million payout to its creditors. On Monday, Judge Martin Glenn of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan will hear the request. Creditors have waited nearly three ... Read full article

TelexFree LLC’s bankruptcy advisers will forgo more than $1 million in fees they charged during the short time they worked for the company, which has since been accused of operating a massive pyramid scheme. ... Read full article

The Archdiocese of Milwaukee has been running a tab when it comes to professionals working on its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, and lawyers for unsecured creditors—chiefly survivors of sexual abuse— say it’s time to pay the bills . ... Read full article

In the niche practice of law-firm bankruptcies, Texas law firm Diamond McCarthy LLP has earned a reputation for its willingness to sue other lawyers. Now, the firm is suing a lawyer it knows well—its former partner Sheila Gowan, who Diamond McCarthy says ... Read full article

Energy Future Holdings Corp. insiders took nearly $46 million out of the company in the 12 months leading up to its April 29 bankruptcy filing, new court records show . ... Read full article

On Tuesday in Manhattan, a judge will consider approving nearly $400 million in fees and expenses for the professionals who worked on the American Airlines bankruptcy. The amounts were recommended by fee examiner Robert Keach, a former American Bankruptcy ... Read full article

Marc Dreier Associated Press In the 5 1/2 years since attorney Sheila Gowan began liquidating Marc Dreier’s former law firm, she’s collected $79 million to help repay the de ... Read full article