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An organization that coached public-relations professionals on how to master crisis communications may need to take some of its own advice after its recent bankruptcy filing. Bulldog Reporter , an Oakland, Calif.-based company that provided training and ... Read full article

The former owners of Lake Las Vegas, including two of Texas’ billionaire Bass brothers, paid $115 million last month to quietly settle a long-running lawsuit tied to the luxurious golf community and resort’s collapse into bankruptcy in 2008, according to ... Read full article

NII Holdings  Inc. on Monday announced a restructuring deal that would put the Latin American  Nextel  carrier in the hands of its bondholders. Read Joe Checkler’s Daily Bankruptcy Review story in The Wall Street Journal. ... Read full article

An investment fund that parked all of its money with  Bernard Madoff  has agreed to give up $95 million for the benefit of Mr. Madoff’s victims in the second major settlement announced this week by the court-appointed official tracking down money tied to ... Read full article

A new legal settlement will bring in nearly $500 million for  Bernard Madoff   ’s cheated investors, putting their total recovery to date above $10 billion. Read  Jacqueline Palank’s Daily Bankruptcy Review story in The Wall Street Journal. ... Read full article

Mutual fund giant Franklin Templeton Investments is appealing a judge’s decision to allow the city of Stockton, Calif., to exit bankruptcy under a plan that pays Franklin-managed funds a fraction of the $37 million owed them but makes full payments for ... Read full article

OW Bunker vessels in Singapore. O.W. Bunker Denmark’s O.W. Bunker AS on Thursday placed its U.S. ... Read full article

Dendreon  Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday after coming to terms with senior lenders on a restructuring that could mean a reorganization or a sale of its cancer drug operation. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review story in The Wall ... Read full article

Next Monday at a law office in Wilmington, Del., vitamin maker Natrol Inc. will auction itself off. ICV Partners is offering approximately $90 million for Natrol, but other bidders can top that at the auction. The California company filed for Chapter 11 ... Read full article

Former Navy SEAL and author of the book “American Sniper”, Chris Kyle poses in Midlothian, Texas, in 2012, less than a yer before his death. Associated Press ... Read full article

Trump Entertainment As cash quickly runs out to keep Atlantic City’s Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort open, a bankruptcy judge refused to sign off on the outlines of a bankruptcy-exit plan for owner Trump Enterta ... Read full article

Nortel Networks Corp. of Canada Tuesday attacked a $1 billion pact between its U.S. division and investment firms that bought debt after the former telecommunications powerhouse collapsed in bankruptcy in 2009. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review story here ... Read full article

Dish Network  Corp. Chairman Charlie Ergen would receive a controlling stake in troubled wireless company LightSquared under the company’s newest restructuring plan, announced in court on Monday. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review story in The Wall Street ... Read full article

Texas entrepreneur Sam Wyly arrives at federal court in New York in May for closing arguments at his civil trial. Associated Press Samuel Wy ... Read full article

International treaties take years to complete as it is, so imagine the complexities at play in a hypothetical international insolvency treaty. But at least people are starting to talk about it. ... Read full article

The new Apple Watch is pictured during an Apple event at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts in Cupertino, Calif., in this file picture taken Sept. ... Read full article

Chelsea Heath, Girls Gone Wild’s 2010 Hottest Girl in America. Chris Lambeth Lawyers who are settling old legal disputes involving Girls Gone Wild have r ... Read full article

GT Advanced Technologies has, for the third time, asked a court to push back the deadline for Apple Inc. to state its case for keeping secret the causes of GT Advanced’s bankruptcy.   ... Read full article