Restructuring

The Daily Docket: Judge Clears Lehman Brokerage Settlement

04/17/13
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A judge on Tuesday approved three measures that will together allow billions of dollars to be returned to customers of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s collapsed brokerage, and soon.

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Restructuring Pros Revel in Conference Site

04/16/13
Associated Press

The Revel resort and casino in Atlantic City, N.J., hopes to check out of bankruptcy by the end of May.

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The Daily Docket: Energy Future Looks to Cut $32B Debt

04/16/13

Energy Future Holdings Corp., the former TXU, talked about a potential bankruptcy Monday that would help erase $32 billion in debt, The Wall Street Journal reports.

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The Daily Docket: LBIE Creditors Might Get Full Returns

04/15/13

Creditors of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s U.K. arm, Lehman Brothers International Europe, might get all their money returned to them. Read the article via Daily Bankruptcy Review.

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Nebraska’s Westward-Expansion Museum Leaves Investors Hanging

04/12/13

The Kearney Arch museum in rural Nebraska has never been able to convince enough motorists to pull over to see its historical artifacts and volunteer re-enactors who chronicle how Americans bravely set out in wagons in the mid-1800s to settle the country’s prairie land.

But the storyline of the museum’s own financial struggle might not be so dramatic if the attraction—a boxy structure meant to look like a covered bridge and painted with colors of the Nebraska sunset—wasn’t hoisted above Interstate 80.

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The Broke and the Beautiful: Gordon Ramsay Edition

04/12/13

It’s a light week here on The Broke and the Beautiful. Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is getting sued, and some college interns have new ideas for Twinkies. Also, Inverness Distribution won a settlement that’ll let it sell off international distribution rights.

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The Daily Docket: Five Mile Sues Over Resort Loan

04/11/13

Investment firm Five Mile Capital Partners is accusing a group of well-known luxury resorts of several conflicts of interest on its board of directors, conflicts Five Mile say resulted in its not getting paid back the $50 million it lent before the resorts filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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Inverness Settlement Paves Way for Film Sale

04/10/13
Associated Press
In this 1989 image provided by Paramount Pictures, Tom Berenger, right, plays catcher Jake Taylor; Charlie Sheen, below, is pitcher Ricky Vaughn; and Corbin
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The Daily Docket: Hostess Wins OK for Drake’s, Bread Brands Sales

04/10/13
Reuters

Hostess Brands Inc. won permission to sell off the last of its major cake and bread assets, raising total sale proceeds from the baking company’s liquidation to about $860 million.

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The Daily Docket: Lehman Disputes Brokerage Deal With German Unit

04/09/13
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Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

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