The Daily Docket: American, US Air Announce Merger
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The Great Recession taught businesses some valuable lessons, but restructuring experts don’t think companies learned enough about changing their corporate governance practices, according to a new survey. In its 2013 Outlook Survey of restructuring ... Read full article
Hawker Beechcraft Inc. won court approval Friday of its plan to exit bankruptcy under the control of a group of hedge funds, a ruling the company hopes will lead to it being out of Chapter 11 by the end of February. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review ... Read full article
This week on The Broke and the Beautiful Kodak may not have the naming rights for the theater where the Oscars are held, but it’s still starring in the best picture nominations. Also, the trustee for former University of Miami booster Nevin Shapiro’s ... Read full article
Two national restaurant chains that quietly filed for bankruptcy and tried to keep the news from their 1,400 employees caught the attention of a federal court watchdog, which has growled out an order to notify them. A representative from the U.S. ... Read full article
Reuters MF Global Holdings Ltd.’s bankruptcy judge on Thursday approved a key settlement among the failed brokerage’s three key constituents, opening up the possibility that the remaining money owed to customers could start flow ... Read full article
Attorneys who are steering struggling Stockton, Calif., through bankruptcy got the power to negotiate deals with creditors with far more secrecy than the usual bankruptcy case. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article
European Pressphoto Agency Ben Affleck (front) holds up the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for “Argo” at the Screen Actors ... Read full article
Associated Press Artist Nancy Peppin holds one of her creations from her series “Day of the Dead Twinkies,” one of dozens of pieces of art she has created over the years using Twinkies and ot ... Read full article
School Specialty Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and agreed to sell its assets to Bayside Capital Inc., an existing secured lender that will be bidding, in part, with debt rather than cash. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here ... Read full article
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This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, actor Patrick Dempsey, aka TV’s “McDreamy,” gives us the scoop on his purchase of the Tully’s coffee chain out of bankruptcy. Also this week, boxing promoter Don King is settling a score—on litigation related to ... Read full article
Associated Press Efforts to mediate an agreement over how to divide $7.3 billion raised in the bankruptcy of Nortel Networks Co ... Read full article
Provided Patrick Dempsey Of all the things that actor Patrick Dempsey has given up while training for long-distance bike rides, coffee isn’t one of them. ... Read full article
Reuters A judge on Wednesday approved a financing deal worth $843.7 million for Eastman Kodak Co., a package the company said should help it emerge from bankruptcy protection around midyear. ... Read full article
Reuters A team of private-equity firms, Apollo Global Management LLC and C. ... Read full article
Reuters The Atari booth is pictured during E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, in Los Angeles in this June 8, 2011, file photo. Atari Inc., the New York ... Read full article
This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, something stinks—but don’t worry, it’s only Curt Schilling’s famous bloody sock, which is going up for sale. Also this week, ex-NBA player Antoine Walker is doling out financial advice. ... Read full article
A judge on Thursday held off approving a deal between Hawker Beechcraft Inc . and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. to scrap two underfunded Hawker pension plans, saying some pension recipients negatively affected by the proposal haven’t been properly ... Read full article