Liquidation

In the days following Genco Shipping & Trading Ltd. ‘s billion-dollar Chapter 11 filing, investment funds Aurelius Capital Partners and Och-Ziff Capital Management Group bought up stock in the dry bulk shipper, even though the stock is slated to be canceled in the restructuring and repaid very little. The Wall Street Journal has the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

Monday, the historic Nortel Networks Corp. cross-border bankruptcy trial will begin in Wilmington, Del., and Toronto. Judges will decide how to divvy up $7.3 billion from the sale of patents and other assets between Nortel divisions in Canada, the United States and Europe.