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Coming and Going Concerns

01/09/14

Sayan Bhattacharyya has been named partner in the New York office of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. Mr. Bhattacharyya works on financial restructurings, and he represents hedge funds, private equity funds and banks both in and out of court. He’s worked on a number of well-known cases including AMF Bowling, Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Indiana Downs, Loehmann’s and Vertis.

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Coming and Going Concerns

01/09/14

Sayan Bhattacharyya has been named partner in the New York office of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. Mr. Bhattacharyya works on financial restructurings, and he represents hedge funds, private equity funds and banks both in and out of court. He’s worked on a number of well-known cases including AMF Bowling, Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Indiana Downs, Loehmann’s and Vertis.

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The Daily Docket: Dish Pulls LightSquared Bid

01/09/14

Dish Network Corp.’s officially pulling its bid for LightSquared Inc., the telecommunications firm in bankruptcy that has wireless spectrum Dish has been coveting, according to people familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal reports.

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The Daily Docket: Dish Pulls LightSquared Bid

01/09/14

Dish Network Corp.’s officially pulling its bid for LightSquared Inc., the telecommunications firm in bankruptcy that has wireless spectrum Dish has been coveting, according to people familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal reports.

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The Daily Docket: LightSquared Asks Judge to Reject Sale Plan

01/06/14

Phil Falcone and LightSquared urged a bankruptcy judge to reject a plan to sell the company’s wireless spectrum assets to Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network Corp., a deal they say is inferior to LightSquared’s proposal to reorganize on its own. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal.

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The Daily Docket: LightSquared Asks Judge to Reject Sale Plan

01/06/14

Phil Falcone and LightSquared urged a bankruptcy judge to reject a plan to sell the company’s wireless spectrum assets to Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network Corp., a deal they say is inferior to LightSquared’s proposal to reorganize on its own. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal.

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The Broke and the Beautiful: Hell Yeah Edition

01/03/14

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, Eddie Montgomery is rolling with bankruptcy and so is the chairman of a far-right political party in Britain. Also, a lawsuit against film financier David Bergstein was dismissed.

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The Broke and the Beautiful: Hell Yeah Edition

01/03/14

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, Eddie Montgomery is rolling with bankruptcy and so is the chairman of a far-right political party in Britain. Also, a lawsuit against film financier David Bergstein was dismissed.

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The Year’s Bankruptcy News in 11 Chapters

12/31/13

Bankruptcies may have slowed in 2013, but we’ve still had our share of action.

Celebrities ruled Bankruptcy Beat’s top posts of the year by page views, taking eight of our top 11 spots.

It’s the final countdown (of 2013):

11. Flying High

New Bill Would Help American Airlines Union Workers (July 9)

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The Year’s Bankruptcy News in 11 Chapters

12/31/13

Bankruptcies may have slowed in 2013, but we’ve still had our share of action.

Celebrities ruled Bankruptcy Beat’s top posts of the year by page views, taking eight of our top 11 spots.

It’s the final countdown (of 2013):

11. Flying High

New Bill Would Help American Airlines Union Workers (July 9)

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