News Topic: Secured Lending

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A long-in-process draft article has just become available to be downloaded and read here . Comments remain welcome.  The Weinstein Company bankruptcy features prominently in this draft article.  ... Read full article

A listserv post this morning accentuated a troubling trend at the intersection of commercial law and bankruptcy practice: a marked decline in confident expertise in the former. ... Read full article

Another quick announcement that I have posted a draft essay on some under explored intersections between big business bankruptcy and big shocks  here.  The abstract is short, yes, but so is the essay. It also discusses ice cream. Thanks for reading!  ... Read full article

On May 4, the CFPB issued a report sharing information the agency had gathered about mortgage forbearances and delinquencies. One notable takeaway is that Black and Brown homeowners, as well as low-income homeowners, are very prevalent among those in ... Read full article

Slips readers will be interested in Matt Levine's column today , which takes a deep dive into the recently failed Greensill's lending against “prospective receivables,” which is kind of like lending against my prospective estate in Scotland. ... Read full article

In the Spring I am teaching a research and writing seminar called Advanced Commercial Law and Contracts. Credit Slips readers have been important resources for project ideas in the past, and I'd appreciate hearing what you have seen out in the world ... Read full article

Scholars of constitutional law and judicial behavior have long conjectured that judges behave differently during times of crisis. ... Read full article

Jamey Mavis Lowdermilk has just posted an article of interest to Credit Slips readers -- lawyers, judges, journalists, policymakers, and more. The article uses a case study of a chapter 12 family farm bankruptcy in North Carolina to ask bigger questions ... Read full article

This working paper is a longitudinal empirical study of lower-income homeowners, including a subset of bankruptcy filers, produced with an interdisciplinary team of cross-campus colleagues, including Professor Roberto Quercia , director of UNC's ... Read full article

Historian Ed Balleisen and I have just posted a paper of interest to Credit Slips readers who are interested in consumer protection, financial crises, and inputs into post-crisis policymaking more generally. I will let the abstract speak for itself: ... Read full article

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In a prior Credit Slips post , I shared a paper, Corporate Bankruptcy Hybridity , positing that bankruptcy should be conceptualized as a public-private partnership. ... Read full article

Since my last Credit Slips post about The Weinstein Co. chapter 11, there have been five public hearings/status conferences (some of which were telephonic). Disparate observations from those hearings below. ... Read full article

In an earlier post , I noted some open questions that had to be answered before Crystallex could execute on PDVSA’s 100% ownership stake in PDV Holding (PDV-H). ... Read full article

I have just posted on the Social Science Research Network a forthcoming article called Corporate Bankruptcy Hybridity . ... Read full article

The financial travails of MoviePass and its parent company Helios & Matheson caught my eye today. ... Read full article

The US Trustee's office just prevailed in a sanctions case against a law firm with a most creative fee scam.  To oversimplify (and leave out certain other issues of bad behavior), the law firm steered debtors who owned cars in which they had zero ... Read full article